The Wife and The Husband?

This is going to get very personal.  I have no problem sharing, but if you feel uncomfortable with it, you may want to bow out.

I met The Wife in High School when we were seventeen and a year later we were married.  Gay marriage isn't recognized, so it isn't legal, but we believe in the marriage and what it stands for.  However, The Wife is depressed (the jury is out on whether it's bi-polar disorder or something else) and we both recognized that I needed someone to be there for me when things were bad.  So, we agreed that it was okay for me to date boys.  I met The Boyfriend a few months later and we've been a family ever since.  The Boyfriend was, and still is, sometimes frustrated with The Wife, because he knows how much it hurts me when she takes a downward spiral and walks away for a few months or years, but he also knows how much she means to me and that I will never give up on her, no matter how many times she stops taking her damn medication (that's right, Wife, you heard me).

The Wife met her own boyfriend a year after I met mine and I like him well enough, even if I don't necessarily approve of everything he did.  However, things came to a head a few years ago when The Wife decided that doing pot was beneficial to her and her condition.  I don't agree.  I don't hate her for deciding to leave and, in fact, I very much admire and respect her for telling me how she felt and letting us discuss it and come to a mutual agreement.  She moved out with her boyfriend.  Shortly after she moved out, The Boyfriend and I had some major drama, involving him doing light drugs and me putting my foot down again.  In the end, he decided I was more important and after some serious therapy, proposed to me.  He was quickly promoted to The Husband.

We're all very close and we're family.  Perhaps a little unorthodox and a tad bit dysfunctional, but a family.