Today I am speaking with an inspiring and compelling person living a fascinating life with which my guest talks about in a powerful and authoritative way (that’s the most accurate way I can describe it.) I am speaking with Jay Guercio.

I am honest when I say that after I'd finished interviewing Jay, I turned my computer off and started to cry because I was that moved to live more of my own truth in regards to many things in my life, and because I was exceedingly appreciative of her mind and the love she has in her life and heart that she freely shares with others.

I found Jay on Tik Tok while scrolling though my For You feed stumbling on her viral video where she explains how she is in a platonic marriage with her female best friend raising their foster son together.

What? Yup, I had a lot of questions as you can imagine. And she answered all of them - everything from where Jay and her wife met, their 15 year old foster son, Eddie - his background, how and why Jay became his foster mom with the added dynamic of being a transracial family, to the platonic marriage itself - where Jay and Krystle even got the idea that this kind relationship could work, what roles they play as wife and wife. They are also in an open marriage and are free to date outside of the marriage so we talk about that.. and many more topics.

For me the most compelling and exciting thing about their story is not even the platonic marriage and how that all works for them, but it is this: that love is not-can not, be defined or confined to where we previously think it has to be. Love can show up in unique and new ways in our lives. And further more, the kind of love that maybe a lot of us imagine saving or curing our lives can from places we don't even know exist.

I am so proud of this interview and I hope you are moved the way I was.

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