To begin. I met Steve through a Facebook page designed for journalists to communicate with people who are polyamorous.

Steve Richardson, is a 52-year-old children’s entertainer and an environmental activist.

Steve’s polyamory journey began in 1993.

He admits he engaged in a long period on unethical non-monogamy, in layman’s terms, he cheated on his wife after four years of being faithful.

It began when Steve went on holiday with his ex-wife, Victoria. She went away to visit some family for a couple of days and had a mildly sexual fling with another women.

When they returned to England, Steve began engaging in multiple affairs. Which ultimately dissolved his marriage.

Now, Steve’s new wife, Sara, accepts who he is.

Sara believes in monogamy and her only partner is Steve. She has had a period of non-monogamy when she was younger, or as Steve described her “I’m a randy nurse and I like screwing lots of fellas”.

Steve said “She was quite a one, in the day.”

According to Steve, their open and complete honesty with each other is what keeps their relationship going.

Steve told his wife, that he was having problems with monogamy and that he had multiple other girlfriends while he was married to his ex-wife. His wife told him that she knows that is just who he is. She believes he is meant to have other lovers because he is a very loving and giving person.

Steve’s most important poly relationship was with a woman called Maggie. They met at a work event two years ago.

They got chatting, one thing led to another and Steve asked her to meet him the following day for a drink. He then confessed that it’s not a date because he is “married and has four girlfriends”.

Maggie took him up on the drink and began to teach Steve about polyamory and they fell in love.

Although Maggie is 19 years older, Steve says he does not care about her age.

It took Maggie a long time to find a meaningful relationship and now she’s finally connected with someone who loves her.

Sadly, she was diagnosed with cancer a year ago. Now, Steve is her carer and helping her with her end of life wishes.

“People think polyamory is when you just have sex with lots of people, well that might be the case. You lose more loves. If you love one person you can only loose one person. This will been the second partner who i’ve really really loved who’s died.”

“I am going to experience more love but I am only going to experience more loss.”

Even though Steve has experienced the loss of a parent, he said “This will be the greatest loss I will experience because of the relationship that we have.”

ALL NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO RESPECT THE PRIVACY OF THE SUBJECT