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Are you part of a couple? You know, one of two people who are in a loving relationship together? Well then you are so last year. Here in 2013, if you're not in a throuple, you're out. (I'm joking, btw.)

I was introduced to throuples (three people in a relationship together, duh) when one of my favorite relationship columnists Chiara Atik interviewed her throuple friends for HowAboutWe.com in April. Then New York magazine wrote about one such throuple in their July sex issue. A throuple, I learned, can be any combination of men and women and really doesn't involve a ton of threesomes sexually. After that, I didn't hear much about it.

But this week a woman called in to Dear Prudence, Emily Yoffe's advice column at Slate, in a pickle. She'd fallen, it seems, into a relationship with twin brothers. I was just as confused as you probably are right now. What's the problem, right? Sounds great! But her friends had shunned her for being a total minx and she wasn't sure whether to keep dating both of them. Yoffe's advice pretty much echoed our thoughts: You go girl!

Now there are throuple-dedicated Tumblrs and throuple Youtube videos that you should definitely NOT LOOK UP AT WORK. Throuples are everywhere. Sure, it's not for everyone and it sounds like it could get sticky after a while. But I'm hoping that maybe more women will come down with Hefner-itis (i.e. dating more than one hot dude at once) Bring on the lady players! That sounds like a female-only quartet, but you get the picture.

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Emma Barker Features Editor Emma Baker is an Editorial Intern and graduate student in NYU's Cultural Reporting and Criticism program.

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