Mormon couples Tanya and Jeff (inset) and Tera and Curtis (left) appear on TLC's new reality show “My Husband’s Not Gay.”Photo: Allyson Bos
Sitting in a French restaurant on one of their regular double dates, the two married couples enjoy an animated conversation covering the usual small talk about jobs, sports and the challenge of parenting.
The mood lightens when a cute male server approaches the table to take their order. But it’s the husbands — not the wives — who start to flirt with him, suggestively joking that he milk a goat by hand to make cheese for their salads.
“Well, he’s a very good-looking guy,” gushes Jeff Bennion, 44, as he and his buddy, Pret Dahlgren, 32, eye the hunky specimen returning to the kitchen.
Far from being shocked or offended, Jeff’s other half, Tanya, 42, and Pret’s spouse, Megan, 32, roll their eyes in amusement.
“Are we going home together or what?” Tanya jokes, half-expecting Jeff to ask for the waiter’s number when the men check him out yet again after their meals arrive.
Mischievous banter like this, as revealed in the upcoming TLC documentary “My Husband’s Not Gay,” is common in the lives of the Bennion and Dahlgren families, two of three Mormon households who showcase their unconventional marriages for the one-off reality show airing Sunday.
The husbands, all of whom spoke openly with their wives to The Post, readily admit that they are sexually attracted to other men, yet deny ever acting on those impulses. It’s an aspect of their personalities they term “same sex attraction,” or SSA, rather than gay or bisexual.
Read the entire article at: http://nypost.com/2015/01/05/these-women-married-men-who-like-men-and-theyre-all-ok-with-it/
