This "Throuple" Might Honestly Convince You That a 3-Person Relationship Is Parenting Gold

If you and your partner ever thought about how nice it'd be with a little extra help around the house, there's an unlikely, seemingly impossible solution that one couple — or "throuple," as it were — is proving has some serious benefits.

Adam Lyons, Brooke Shedd, and Jane Shalakhova are all three in a romantic relationship together . . . and a coparenting one. The trio are raising three kids — Adam and Jane have son Orion, Adam and Brooke have son Dante, and Brooke has a son from a previous relationship — with another on the way.

"I have a relationship with Adam, I have a relationship with Jane. And the three of us have a relationship together," Brooke, who is pregnant, said on Megan Kelly Today. "They each provide things for me in that relationship that the other one can't, and I think that's why it is so fulfilling."

A committed three-person partnership is certainly not the norm, but for them, it's entirely workable. In fact, this Austin-based "throuple" has been going strong for six years. Curious how they make it work, especially with kids? Read on for their solutions to some of the questions you're asking yourself right about now. (Real talk: they make some good points.)

"Right now, things are kind of crazy because we're sleep-training our infant son, and then I'm hugely pregnant so sleep is uncomfortable anyway, but generally we all share a king-size bed," Brooke said. "Our kids are not allowed in the bed."

"We always have someone around, and we never feel lonely, and we never feel as though we're misunderstood by our partner," Jane said. "Because some of us always get the other part of each other. So it falls into place nicely."

"Ideally the three of us are together — that's our perfect scenario," Brooke said. "But sometimes if one person's not feeling it, that person tends to give the other two a bit of private time, some grown-up time. That actually happens more often than we like to admit. It's so convenient."

"Our kids are also more well-rounded because there are three different styles of parenting that they deal with every day," Brooke said. "All of our kids have strict parents and loving parents and cuddly parents and wrestling parents at different times."

"We have parenting rules," Adam said. "If a child does something wrong, we'll have time out, and if another parent makes a rule, we will all support that decision. We always have each other's back."