Triple Hearts

One husband. Two wives. Thirty children. And tonight, one of the wives is here to tell it herself.
Mykal Coles is a police captain, author, actor, and father of "29 plus one." Jasmine is one of his two wives and the mother of eleven of those children. We didn't want to hear a man explain what having two wives looks like. We wanted to hear it from a woman living it.

They start at the beginning. Mykal admits he was a cheater in his first marriage, and that it was his wife Alicia who first brought...

Episode 10. A milestone, a birthday, and Beetlejuice in the building.

Coop is back in the third chair, in full Beetlejuice, and it's Halloween, which also means it's Lala's birthday. Cake, three candles, then straight into the heavy one.

A clip of Dr. Umar and Nick Cannon has been flooding our DMs. The point: white women can go from relationship to relationship in the spotlight and stay "marriage material." A Black woman can have two kids with her college sweetheart, date one person after the divorce, and suddenly she's damaged. We ask who actually...

Dating in 2026 is hard enough. Dating apps while polyamorous is a whole different sport.
This week Koko and Lala get into the good, the bad, and the downright ridiculous side of swiping while poly. Koko met her last two relationships on apps, including a five-year run that started on Plenty of Fish. Lala is terrified of them, and she has receipts: someone once put her pictures on a fake profile, and a Plenty of Fish date at Jasper's ended with her putting the whole table on his tab.

Then it gets wild. Koko and her...

People think the hardest part about sex is the act. We disagree. The hardest part is the conversation before, during, and after.

This week Koko and Lala get into the sex talk: the one most people avoid until they are already in the moment. We start with a TikTok story that stuck with us. A woman quietly took PrEP for two years, found out her partner was cheating and HIV positive, and then got called "deceptive" for protecting herself. From there we ask the real questions. When is it okay to ask someone when they were...

Coming out isn't one big announcement. It happens again and again, with family, friends, co-workers, kids, and sometimes yourself.
This week Koko and Lala get into living honestly while deciding who actually deserves access to your personal life. It opens with a listener who told her mom she has two partners and got asked, "So which one is the real one?" Koko's answer: both of them, and the question insults them both.

They cover the news too: Ne-Yo losing endorsements after going public, and Akon saying the number of his wives is "up to one's...

Dating is already complicated. Now add multiple partners, honesty, boundaries, and a whole lot of communication.

This week, Koko and Lala talk about what dating while poly actually looks like, past the myths and the judgment. They start with Ne-Yo going public and the backlash he received for it. Then they get into hierarchy, the thing everyone new to poly worries about. Koko tells the story of a woman who went on two dates with her and her partner and decided the next day that the three of them were in a relationship. Her answer to...

You got a serial monogamist and a serial cheater in the same relationship. That was never going to work.

Wait. That's not this story.

This one starts at a movie set. Koko shows up to do makeup. Coop sees her and tells his boy on the spot: I'm in love with the Koko. She posts something. He slides in. She says he's got to get in line. He says, fuck your line.

Three and a half years later, they're building a closed triad, a feature film, and a whole life together. But it...

A hug. A jealous partner. A pool party gone sideways.

Lala said, “Let’s talk tomorrow.” He insisted on right now. And just like that, the ick moved in.

In Episode 4, Lala and Koko unpack the moment attraction turns into “absolutely the fuck not.” Is it intuition, unresolved baggage, or someone finally showing you who they are? And once you get the ick, can you come back?

From a surprise kiss that touched Koko’s soul to tequila blackouts, public possessiveness, and hygiene dealbreakers, nothing is off-limits. Plus, an open letter asks: Are you throwing...

She thought it was story time. Her partner's face said otherwise.

Lala talks. Everybody knows Lala talks. So she told her people everything, and one of them balled up their face and said I did not need to hear that. Turns out honesty has a volume knob, and she had it all the way up.

Episode three is communication. Not the greeting-card version. The real one. Why we shut down. Why we get defensive. Why it's easier to yell than to say, that hurt me. And why two people can hear the same sentence and...

Messy Mondays is here, and this one starts at an ATM machine.

Brenda calls in with the story she's kept close for years. A man at the ATM won't stop talking to her, then invites her to his church for healing. She goes. She likes the vibe, likes him, likes the people. Weeks later she finds out two things back to back: he's engaged, and he's the pastor.

Then the real pitch comes. He wants his soon-to-be wife to be with a woman. He just hasn't told his fiancée who that woman is going t...

She came out of the bathroom and saw the two of them. So she slapped him. In front of the girl.

Not her proudest moment. She tells it anyway, because the whole episode lives inside it.

Jealousy does not discriminate. Single, married, monogamous, poly. It finds everybody. The only real question is what you do next.

Lala and Koko go straight at it. The tight chest. The story you build in your head before your partner has said one word. The body language that tells on you before you even know you're upset...

You got a serial monogamist and a serial cheater in the same relationship. That was never going to work.

Episode one and nobody eases in. Lala and Koko go back to the start: The monogamy that kept not fitting, and the cheater who finished off what was left of it. Both of them land in the same place, the day they stopped asking permission. Messy, with the receipts.

WHAT'S IN IT
• How you end up here. Serial monogamy, a serial cheater, and an "open relationship" that was really one man hiding people fr...