Jesse Tyler Ferguson has some alternative phrases for anybody trying to get right into a throuple.
“I steer away from the drama,” Ferguson, 49, completely informed Us Weekly on August 21, whereas attending Shakespeare within the Park on the Delacorte Theater in New York Metropolis. “I’ve had pals who have been in throuples and I used to be like, ‘Good luck with that.’ Actually, none of them have lasted. In order that’s the closest to a love triangle I’ve seen.”
As an alternative of participating in love triangles or difficult throuples, Ferguson is fortunately married to Justin Mikita — the pair celebrated a decade of marriage again in 2023.
“Pleased tenth Anniversary @justinmikita,” Ferguson wrote through Instagram on the time. “I really like you so very a lot & am so pleased I get to name you my huzzzzzzbin.” The pair met at a gymnasium in 2012 and married a yr later, simply two years after homosexual marriage was legalized within the state of New York.
“We bought married on a highly regarded night time in July in NYC,” Mikita recalled to Individuals on the time of their nuptials. “We held an afterparty at a lodge a number of blocks away from the marriage venue.”
Ferguson added, “It was at all times our plan to have individuals parade over to the afterparty. Our marriage ceremony planner, Bryan Rafanelli, had the nice concept of handing out noisemakers to friends so we may maintain the vibe alive on the stroll over to the brand new venue.”

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The Fashionable Household star and his husband went on to welcome their two sons, Beckett and Sullivan, through surrogates in 2020 and 2022, respectively. The pair beforehand opened as much as Us about their roles as dad and mom and the bond between their sons.
“I really like seeing Beckett and Sullivan’s early connection and seeing them play collectively, and likewise seeing them sort of like, collectively develop opinions about Justin and I,” Ferguson mentioned in December 2024. “, we’re slightly overbearing at occasions, and we wish to hug them and snuggle them.”
He continued, “Collectively, they’re each like, ‘OK, sufficient, again up and collectively we’re deciding that you simply guys are slightly overwhelming.’ I really like that they’re sort of already, like, drawing a line within the sand collectively about us. That’s actually candy. I really like that they’re gonna have one another for his or her entire lives.”
Throughout the identical unique interview, Ferguson additionally shared how his siblings assist assist him as a father.
“I really like my siblings,” Ferguson, who has a brother and a sister, informed Us on the time. “It’s so nice having people who find themselves round my age, who can, like, commiserate with me about my loopy dad and mom. That’s simply so essential.”