"Stuck on Youse"

Maclean's magazine

Maclean's is the national news magazine of Canada — their Time or Newsweek. This very nice article on the growth of poly in Canada appeared in the issue for December 5, 2005.

Polyamorous relationships aren't any less committed — they're just a bit more crowded.

By CATHY GULLI

When an old flame walked back into Helen's life just a few months before she was to walk down the aisle with another man, there was only one solution: marry her fiancé, Michael Schilder, and start dating Aaron Miedema again — and have him emcee the wedding reception. "If I had been trying to choose a monogamous lifestyle, when Aaron came back into my life it would have been a crisis," says Helen Schilder, 33, a dressmaker. "I would have been thrown into a tizzy. But because I was polyamorous, we could share."

Schilder's situation may sound strange, but it appears increasingly common in Canada....

Read the whole article.