"“It's funny, the press will pick up on something and make more of it than it was,” she told the Daily Mail. “There was never any discussion as to what we were going to do, but in 75 years, the two of you together, you know, it would be abnormal if you . . . weren't attracted occasionally to other people.”"
"“It was non-spoken,” Bartlett said about the open marriage. “Bill and I never sit down and make rules. We never sit down and talk about these things. We just don't. We just live our lives. And if he's away for a year, he's away for a year.”"
"She said, “there have been times” both of them stepped outside their marriage. “Our lives just went on, but we never got unhinged . . . Our lives did go in different directions occasionally,” she said in the recent interview."
"In the early years of their marriage, it was not uncommon to have an open marriage, she noted in the 2023 discussion on the topic. “It was at a time in New York when there was a lot of sex and a lot of people doing all kinds of things,” and people were “very free.”"
William Daniels and Bonnie Bartlett, married for nearly 75 years, describe their open marriage as something they never formally planned or discussed. Bartlett says the press often exaggerates details, and that it would be abnormal not to feel attraction to other people over decades together. She describes the arrangement as non-spoken, with no rules made and no scheduled conversations about it. She says both partners have stepped outside the marriage at times, while their lives continued without becoming unstable. She also links the openness to the social climate in New York during their early years, when people were described as very free.
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