Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson is revealing why he initially wanted to keep his relationship with his now-husband, Justin Mikita, casual.
While recording the October 20 episode of his podcast, Dinner’s On Me, alongside his guest, actress Justine Lupe, Ferguson shared that he wasn’t interested in a serious relationship when he first started dating Mikita. He explained that while he was “wired to like be in a relationship,” he had dated someone who wanted to “keep it free and loose.”
“I was like, ‘Okay.’ And it didn’t feel like there was any pressure around it. And it was really nice,” said Ferguson.
He said that he “wanted to continue that narrative” when he started seeing Mikita. He also noted that Mikita is 10 years his junior and was in his early 20s when they met.
“For me, I was like, he should be dating more. I met him when he was like 23, 24 years old. And like so, I thought he needs more experience to be with people,” said the actor on his podcast.
He said, however, that Mikita “was just not having it” and told him he had “maybe another month or so” to keep the relationship casual before he had “to figure out” whether he could be serious.
“I think like 2 days later, I was like, ‘Okay, we’re together.’ He pushed me into that totally, totally, that place of deciding,” said Ferguson, who has two children with Mikita, Beckett Mercer Ferguson-Mikita, 6, and Sullivan “Sully” Louis Ferguson-Mikita, 3.
Justin Mikita Shared How He & Jesse Tyler Ferguson Met
Mikita shared that he and Ferguson met at a gym in West Hollywood during a July 2026 episode of the Plus One With Lisa and Morgan podcast. He explained that he was going through law school and became “really engaged with politics” in 2008. The lawyer said he was particularly “fired up” about California Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage.
At the same time, Modern Family came on the air, which depicted Ferguson’s character, Mitchell Pritchett’s loving relationship with Cameron Tucker, played by Eric Stonestreet.
“I watched the pilot, and I was so moved by it. And it so encapsulated how I was feeling about equality ’cause I was just like, ‘Wow, the fact that we have a Black president, Prop 8 has just passed in this state,'” said Mikita. “And then on top of it, there’s this incredible same-sex family being represented on TV in a way that I have never seen in my life.”
He then said he happened to run into Ferguson at the gym, where he shared how much Modern Family meant to him. After “about a year” of interactions at the gym, Ferguson “asked [him] out.”
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