A 'throuple' have shared how they hope to one day get married and raise children in their three-way relationship.
Adam Joshua, 27, started dating Zeke Taylor, 24, in 2016 while they were both studying for their engineering degree at university.
But the pair later decided they wanted to try an open relationship, and met Derrick Kennedy, 30, in September 2021.
Adam said they instantly "aligned" - and soon afterwards they became a throuple.
The group made their relationship official in November 2022 after they said they both started to fall in love with Derrick, and are still going strong several months in.
Adam admitted that he had harboured some "insecurities" talking about his unconventional relationship, but says he has been "very fortunate that my family is very supportive of me as a gay person" and are "very open-minded".
The engineer said that the way they function as a throuple is they all have an equal stake in the relationship - but said this isn't always the case with all throuples, and that there is often a primary partnership alongside a third.
Looking to the future, he revealed that he and his partners would love to get married and have kids in the future, as it is something they had all seriously discussed before getting into a throuple.
He said: "All of us want to get married, but we don't have a timeline for that yet.
"It couldn't be a legal marriage but we want one that is more symbolic with the promise of spending out lives together.
"To make a partnership like this work people need to employ honesty and open communication more so than you would in a two-people relationship.
" For us, there are no playbooks, I don't know any throuples, I don't read about any - we had to figure this out ourselves.
Adam also admitted that him and his partners all experience jealousy from time to time, but said that when they do they are always committed to sharing how they are feeling
He said: "Jealousy can be in the crooks of a throuple and why people are scared of getting into one - you have to embrace jealousy.
"We speak up for ourselves if you are feeling two might be cuddling more than the other. Instead of letting that feeling fester you just raise your hands and speak about it. Another thing is we look at jealousy in a different way. If one partner is out of town in a two-way relationship the other person would be left alone.
"In this relationship, if one of us is out of town then the other two will spend time together."
Ultimately it benefits all of them, he said, as they see it as a "positive that we have someone there for our partner to be with."
