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Hey, everybody, it's Marielle, and I have a love story for you.
When Elizabeth Clark met her partner, she says that was pretty much it for her.
I was falling in love with Corey in a way that I was like, this is my person.
Like, this is the person that I'm supposed to, like, have my life with.
How I knew that, I couldn't tell you.
I just kind of did.
Liz is a clinical psychologist and the director of counseling at the new school.
She's talking about her partner, Corey.
They are committed to each other and they're non monogamous.
What that means is they're not exclusive.
They have relationships with other people, too.
Currently, we have a shared partner for the two of us, and we have been in a relationship with them for about three and a half years.
And then they have other relationships of their own.
When we think about romance, a lot of us have a certain script, one that's been pieced together from years of watching rom coms or observing our parents and our friends parents from reading history books.
The list goes on.
Person a meets person b.
They start dating.
They become exclusive.
A and b fall in love.