If a healthy polyamorous relationship can exist, it doesn't look like this.

In addition to Ichikawa, she’s with Tyler, Robin and Kupcha. For six years, she had a close relationship with Ray, a poet. But they broke up in 2019, after Ray found another partner. Ray’s new set-up was less open, she explains. Jenkins was heartbroken. Her husband – the person ‘I always turn to for support for anything’ – was sympathetic. ‘That could sound strange – shouldn’t he be glad I lost this person? But it’s not like that. This person wasn’t competition. He was someone else I cared for, someone else who was supporting me, and actually it’s a loss to us all if I lose that. But obviously, I was the only one heartbroken.’

If by some improbable turn of events she had found five men who all love her and share at least a brotherly love for one another, maybe she'd be the once-in-a-blue-moon polyamorous relationship that works. But Ray is proof that she's sleeping around with men who don't just mean nothing to her other partners, but don't even care much about her.