Jesse Tyler Ferguson has some alternative phrases for anybody trying to get right into a throuple.
“I steer away from the drama,” Ferguson, 49, solely 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 had 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 partaking in love triangles or sophisticated throuples, Ferguson is fortunately married to Justin Mikita — the pair celebrated a decade of marriage again in 2023.
“Pleased tenth Anniversary @justinmikita,” Ferguson wrote by way of Instagram on the time. “I like you so very a lot & am so comfortable I get to name you my huzzzzzzbin.” The pair met at a health club in 2012 and married a 12 months later, simply two years after homosexual marriage was legalized within the state of New York.
“We bought married on a extremely popular evening in July in NYC,” Mikita recalled to Folks on the time of their nuptials. “We held an afterparty at a resort a couple of blocks away from the marriage venue.”
Ferguson added, “It was all the time our plan to have folks parade over to the afterparty. Our marriage ceremony planner, Bryan Rafanelli, had the good thought of handing out noisemakers to friends so we might preserve 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, by way of surrogates in 2020 and 2022, respectively. The pair beforehand opened as much as Us about their roles as mother and father and the bond between their sons.
“I like seeing Beckett and Sullivan’s early connection and seeing them play collectively, and likewise seeing them form of like, collectively develop opinions about Justin and I,” Ferguson mentioned in December 2024. “You understand, we’re a little bit 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 just guys are a little bit overwhelming.’ I like that they’re form of already, like, drawing a line within the sand collectively about us. That’s actually candy. I 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 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 mother and father. That’s simply so vital.”


