{"id":138212,"date":"2020-03-30T15:59:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T13:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/03\/30\/how-we-met-i-think-gay-men-are-often-able-to-negotiate-an-open-marriage\/"},"modified":"2020-03-30T15:59:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T13:59:16","slug":"how-we-met-i-think-gay-men-are-often-able-to-negotiate-an-open-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=138212","title":{"rendered":"How we met: &#039;I think gay men are often able to negotiate an open marriage&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Butler, 29, a radio journalist, and his husband, Hugh O\u2019Connor, 31, a theatre production designer, are also in a relationship with Charles Davis, 28, another theatre production designer Dan remembers one evening, sitting on the sofa and talking to his husband, Hugh, about Charles. \u201cIt was the most amazing experience because we were really falling in love with this person,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd we could talk about it with each other, like: \u2018Isn\u2019t it amazing about him that he does this thing?\u2019 I remember taking a deep breath and saying: \u2018This is becoming something; this is something real.\u2019\u201dDan and Hugh, who live in Sydney, have been together for eight years, but this was about five years into their relationship. They had met as students at a party. \u201cAt some point, the cops came and shut it down,\u201d says Hugh. \u201cI said to a whole load of people in the street: \u2018Do you want to come back to my house?\u2019 I wasn\u2019t ready to stop having a good time. Dan and I started talking, and on the way home we talked about Carl Sagan and Beyonc\u00e9. We covered a pretty wide range of topics.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2020\/mar\/30\/how-we-met-gay-men-open-marriage-relationship\" target=\"_blank\">How we met: &#039;I think gay men are often able to negotiate an open marriage&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Butler, 29, a radio journalist, and his husband, Hugh O\u2019Connor, 31, a theatre production designer, are also in a relationship with Charles Davis, 28, another theatre production designer Dan remembers one evening, sitting on the sofa and talking to his husband, Hugh, about Charles. \u201cIt was the most amazing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}