Los Angeles social media manager Elisa says her husband Mike, is “partner number one”, but she hopes “partner number two is on the way”.
On the first season of Seeking Brother Husband – which you can watch on 9Now – the pair, who have been married for four years, explain how they decided to open up their marriage to allow Elisa to date other men.
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“I cheated on Mike while we were dating,” Elisa explained.
“Not because I was unhappy with our relationship but because I just had this really intense connection with somebody else.”
You can meet Elisa and Mike in the clip above.
She said she didn’t realise at the time that she could have both “a great relationship” and like somebody other than Mike.
“It was quite the rocky path to get to this point,” Mike said, adding they “both established that we wanted to continue our relationship”.
Elisa created a dating app profile to find potential matches but when she showed it to Mike, it caused him a few concerns.
Mike liked the photos on her profile, but was taken back when he saw her bio included a very cheeky X-rated joke.
“Intimacy and connection are very important to me, if you can’t go deep – no pun intended – then this isn’t going to work out,” he read.
“Wow,” he responded. “It’s clever, I like it. It just caught me off guard.”
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While Elisa believed it was funny, Mike told the camera he had to “keep reminding myself this is what I wanted”.
“Talking about Elisa seeing or dating other men is one thing, actually physically seeing her with someone else is going to be a bit of a challenge and a bit different.
“That kind of opened up a whole new bag of emotions; a little more jealousy, more uncertainty,” he said.
It caused a disagreement about their ‘number one rule’.
“One was ‘our bed is our bed’. No one else sleeps in our bed. And I mean, now that we have two bedrooms that’s not so much of an issue,” Elisa said.
“I thought one was ‘no bringing anyone back to the apartment’. I want our apartment to be our place,” Mike countered.
Elisa wanted clarification.
“Okay, so even if you were like out of town?” she asked.
“You’re going to a bachelor party next weekend.
“Let’s say you’re gone for that and I meet somebody. They couldn’t come back and here and we couldn’t be in the second bedroom?”
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“I’m not really comfortable with that yet but it sounds like you are,” Mike replied.
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“Yeah, it’s like a different room. But okay. It is off-limits for now,” Elisa agreed.
Watch Elisa and Mike’s full story and journey to finding Elisa another partner on Seeking Brother Husband.
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