JAMIE TRIPLETT: Being in a polyamorous relationship.
CRYSTAL TRIPLETT: You have no idea. There is no set rules or anything. Like, you just
have to figure it out as you go.
JOEY TRIPLETT: There is no..
JAMIE TRIPLETT: Like I have two guys.
JOEY TRIPLETT: Yeah!
JOEY TRIPLETT: I am sure we were the talk of the town for a good while.
CRYSTAL TRIPLETT: If someone would have asked me 5 years ago, ‘Hey, in 5 years do you
think that you could bring someone else into your relationship?’ I would be like, ‘No!
There is no way.’ But now, I mean, I can’t imagine it without her.
COMM: After 12 years of marriage to Joey, Crystal met Jamie and things haven’t been
the same for the couple since.
CRYSTAL TRIPLETT: Jamie came into my life because we met at a shop party and as we got
to know each other a little more, we kind of, just developed a romantic liking to each other.
JOEY TRIPLETT: Whenever Crystal finally came to me and told me that she actually had feelings
for Jamie, I kind of already knew. At that point in time, Jamie and I had actually developed
a really good friendship. I gave them my blessing completely when it came to, you know,
forming the relationship.
JAMIE TRIPLETT: We got together in October, like, officially, like, girlfriends and she
was moved in by January. So, I mean, it just kind of happened.
JAMIE TRIPLETT: It did. It just happened.
COMM: After moving in the family home as Crystal’s girlfriend, it wasn’t long before their
dynamic changed yet again.
JOEY TRIPLETT: Yeah, I developed feelings for Jamie.
JAMIE TRIPLETT: Then Joey and I fell in love.
JOEY TRIPLETT: Don’t remember how it all came about but I told Crystal that I had feelings
for Jamie and Crystal took it pretty hard. She was pretty upset with all the situation.
CRYSTAL TRIPLETT: I was the jealous person. I had a hard, hard, hard time with it.
JOEY TRIPLETT: Crystal was upset. I mean every relationship has ups and downs and it was
definitely a down.
COMM: But it didn’t take long and now this threesome are happily embedded into their
polyamorous relationship.
JAMIE TRIPLETT: I didn’t think that I am in a relationship with a girl or I am in a
relationship with two people.
JAMIE TRIPLETT: I am just in love and happy and they are what they are.
COMM: It wasn’t just Crystal and Joey who had to adjust to an additional member in their household.
COMM: The couple’s son, Jamison, also had to adapt to his new family structure.
JAMIE TRIPLETT: Coming into this relationship with a couple that has a child was very exciting to me.
JAMIE TRIPLETT: I absolutely love children.
JAMISON TRIPLETT: When Jamie came, I was like, ‘Wait, who is this?’ So, she just started
living in my house and I am like, ‘Wait, so what’s going on right now?’ So I was
just like, ‘What?’ Now, she is going to be my mom and I am like, ‘Oh, okay.’ They
told me that it’s lucky to have two moms and a dad. But I don’t know. I mean I like it.
It’s fun. It’s fine with me.
CRYSTAL TRIPLETT: Jamie coming in and treating mine and Joey’s kid as her own, like, she
did amazing and he is the one that actually took it upon himself to call her mom or mama
Jamie. We never ever forced that on him.
JAMIE TRIPLETT: Jamison is my baby. He is my son. I love him, you know, so much and
I would do anything in the whole world for him.
JAMISON TRIPLETT: It took me a little bit of time too, but I mean not that long, it was fine.
JAMISON TRIPLETT: I think it’s pretty fun to have two moms.
JOEY TRIPLETT: Splitting the chores and then they, the responsibilities of you know, a
parent between three people instead of two is, you know, it’s much more relaxing.
COMM: And childcare isn’t the only bonus.
JOEY TRIPLETT: How it works in the bedroom? Works out really well.
CRYSTAL TRIPLETT: The sex between us, whether it’s one on one or two on one, it just,
it’s all free here. We are just, we are open to it.
COMM: Although the pros to their relationship might be numerous, there are still a few things
that are difficult for this triad.
JOEY TRIPLETT: Fajitas, fajitas, when you order fajitas you know, there is only enough for two people.
CRYSTAL TRIPLETT: Oh he had, Joey had to buy a truck that has a bench front seat so we
could all three sit together.
JAMIE TRIPLETT: In the front – no one can sit in the back.
JAMIE TRIPLETT: The challenges in being in a relationship with two people at the same
time, is you have to keep two people happy at all times. It’s a chore. So whenever
you fight, you do get ganged up on because two people are going to agree most of the time.
JOEY TRIPLETT: This is our shop where we build our cars. Me and my dad had this place built
a few years ago.
COMM: The threesome are also planning on adding an additional member to their family in the future.
JAMIE TRIPLETT: Joey and I do plan on having a baby very soon hopefully. I am not pregnant
and I am not trying to get pregnant. But eventually very soon, I will be, I just know it.
JOEY TRIPLETT: We all know how babies are made, we are just going to like you know,
get some practise in and you know.
HEATH RONCH: I met the Tripletts probably, I don’t know sixteen years ago. I always
knew them as just Joey and Crystal, you know before they just started, to start their whole
polyamorous journey - if you will. It was definitely an adjustment, you know. I am from
the South, I have pretty big religious background. It was not, definitely not the route I go.
It was just, just kind of like boom! There is this person, extra person there, you know.
It felt like, my whole life here I am eating out of a bowl of red M&Ms and all of
a sudden somebody tossed in a green one and I am like, “Where this green one come from?”
You can’t turn your back on your friends when you truly love them. So never going to
turn my back on them, no matter what.
JOEY TRIPLETT: A lot of my friends are definitely jealous of the situation. I get a lot of high
fives from it and yeah, a lot of my friends were jealous of Crystal. Beforehand, you know,
I used to hear all the time people saying you know, how beautiful Crystal was and everything
and now that you know, Jamie has come into my life you know it’s, yeah I definitely get the...
JAMIE TRIPLETT: They say the same thing about me, right?
JOEY TRIPLETT: Yeah, that’s what I am saying. I definitely get it now. It’s just twice as bad.