While on my journey to non-belief, skepticism and secular humanism, I’ve had many epiphanies. The one that may have struck me as the most poignant, at least recently, was when I heard the word “compersion.” It was the kind of ah ha moment of when a word or expression was finally applied to a feeling and emotion I hadn’t yet been able to articulate. Compersion simply means to find joy in someone else’s joy. I learned even more recently that the word itself is specifically related to consensual non-monogamous relationships – which was also a sort of epiphany for me in that I didn’t quite get why it mostly applies to sexual or romantic relationships, as I figured being happy for other people shouldn’t require such specifications. As a humanist, finding joy in other’s joy seems to me to be a foundational principle of humanism itself. But I digress, on to my epiphany… My husband and I were married in March of 2000, when I was barely old enough to drink at 21 and when …