She’s Showing People What Her Life Is Like Being In A Throuple, And She Also Answers A Lot Of Interesting Questions People Have About This Kind Of Relationship
How many of the people that you know are in a throuple? Odds are not many. It is not as common to come across someone in a throuple as it is to come across someone in a couple. But things are changing on TikTok through Janie Frank’s videos.
On the app, @janiecfrank is answering viewers’ questions and breaking down what life is like being in a throuple.
By answering these questions, it’s revealed that she is in an open relationship with her other two partners.
She refers to both of them in the throuple as her “fiancés” and said that their connection doesn’t have emotional depth when asked about their open relationship status.
“Right now, for my fiancés and I, being in an open relationship does not mean anything emotional,” she explained. “That doesn’t mean that it couldn’t at some point in the future; it’s just never come up before.”
Some may not realize that a throuple can be categorized as polyamory, which Janie explains through the multiple hashtags attached to the video that read things like “#polyamory” or “#nonmonogamy”.
For her open form of this kind of relationship, this also can mean meeting people romantically outside of their throuple.
“If one of us started developing emotional, like, feelings for someone else, I think it would just be something that we would have to talk about and figure out,” she explained. “But it’s not like off the table because I don’t think it’s fair for us to tell our partner you can’t feel certain things.”
TikTok; pictured above is Janie in one of her videos
Since many people don’t know what it’s like being in a throuple, Janie discussed the inner workings of their relationship and what they expect from the other partners in their throuple.
She talked about how they don’t like to inhibit anyone in their open relationship because “you can’t develop emotions and feelings like that’s just not something that they can prevent.”
“If they are doing that, we would want them to be completely honest and open about that and feel comfortable sharing that,” she said. “It’s, you know, something we would do because we love each other and want each other to be happy.”
She succinctly summed up their relationships ‘guidelines’ in the caption to her video, saying, “the parameters of our open relationship are really just ‘tell me what’s going on in as much or as little detail as you feel comfortable with and be safe.'”
But the situation is much more complex than just their own relationship standards. Janie explained that although they are all engaged to each other, legally, they struggle to be together.
“It is actually illegal for me to get married,” she said. “I could potentially marry someone, just not my fiancés.”
This may be confusing at first, but she explains that it is because her other two partners are already legally married. However, she remains positive about the situation and about their connection.
“The three of us already have legal paperwork binding us together solely because we bought a house,” she said. “But our wedding itself will just be symbolic. It won’t have any legal standing. It will just be a celebration of our love and devotion to each other.”
Watch her two videos here and here.
If true crime defines your free time, this is for you: join Chip Chick’s True Crime Tribe
Sign up for Chip Chick’s newsletter and get stories like this delivered to your inbox.
More About:Romance
Read This Next
