text: Rowan Mangan's life is anything but 'conventional'
  She's raising her young daughter with her two partners — Martha and Karen — and together the three of them each have a dynamic role in their bustling household.
  "The feeling of love and joy that you get when you see your two partners loving on each other, it's gorgeous," Rowan says on Mamamia's No Filter podcast. "There's something so liberating about that feeling."
  When Rowan first met her wife Martha Bec, they were on a retreat in remote South Africa. Martha, a coach, Harvard-trained sociologist, and New York Times bestselling author, was running the coaching program in South Africa. Rowan had spent "a really ridiculous amount of money" to be an attendee.
  It wasn't a love story from the beginning. But it morphed into one.
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  "I am exceptionally good at being a teacher's pet. I knew about Martha because in all her books she always incorporates her personal story. I was aware that she had been with her partner Karen for many years," explains Rowan.
  Martha had grown up Mormon. She had married young, had kids young, but felt something was missing in her life. She met Karen, they fell in love, and the pair ended up raising Martha's kids together with Martha's ex husband. By the time Rowan met Martha, Martha and Karen were in a long-term relationship.