I’m a polyamorous parent — I’m a better mom now that my kids know the truth about my unrestrictive lifestyle
NY Post
For Nichole Gonzalez, giving birth to her now one-year-old daughter in late 2023 was a family affair.
As she pushed, her husband, Frank, held her left leg — while their girlfriend, Sasha, held the right.
“It was important to have both of my partners in the delivery room,” Gonzalez, 29, a stay-at-home mama of two from northern New Jersey, told The Post.
As a polyamorous parent to both her little girl and a nine-year-old son, she’s in the growing number of mothers and fathers exploring consensual non-monogamy (CNM).
It’s an unrestrictive relationship style that allows couples to pursue sexual and romantic connections beyond the confines of a two-person partnership.
The avant-garde arrangement is an everyday setup for roughly one in five adults in both the U.S. and Canada, per a 2024 report from the University of Quebec, which noted, “Among those who practice CNM, many have children.”
The killing of Iran’s tyrannical Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday in an unprecedented joint military attack by the US and Israel called Operation Epic Fury set off widespread celebrations from Iranians around the world — as President Trump said it would give them their “greatest chance” to “take back the country.” Meanwhile, in Iran, a lack of internet has made it impossible for Iranians to easily communicate daily conditions. Over a period of three days, with limited VPN connection, an eyewitness currently in Tehran — who, for her safety, is concealing her identity — shared her account of life under a country in the midst of battle with The Post’s Natasha Pearlman.
After exactly 120 years, the curtain has fallen on the Theater District institution Barbetta, with the iconic Italian restaurant having served its final course Friday night.