If you were to ask Carrie Coon, she’d tell you her husband Tracy Letts just wasn’t cut out for The White Lotus in Thailand.

“Here’s the thing about Tracy: He’s allergic to the sun and he hates the ocean,” the actress, who plays Laurie on season three of the HBO series, said on a February episode of The Julia Cunningham Show. “So this was not the season for him. He needs to be in some cold-weathered season down the line.”

But even if Tracy wasn’t right for this installment, it’s clear he and Carrie are right for each other.

The playwright, 59, and The Leftovers star, 44, met in 2010 while working on the production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and the immediate connection was undeniable.

“I was in a relationship when I met Tracy and so was he,” she said on a 2020 episode of PeopleTV’s Couch Surfing. “But I think to anyone who was in the room with us, it was really obvious that there was something inevitable that was going to happen. I almost ran into him in the doorway on the first day of rehearsal, and he said, ‘I’m really glad you’re here.’ And that was it.”

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White Lotus‘ Carrie Coon Addresses If She Has “Open” Relationship With Husband Tracy Letts

Fast-forward three years later and Tracy and Carrie tied the knot—albeit it wasn’t exactly a fairy-tale.

“We were going to go to the courthouse to get married, and the night before, I suddenly came down with pains,” the August: Osage County writer told Vanity Fair in 2013. “We went to the emergency room, and I had my gallbladder removed the next day. So she went and she found the Lutheran chaplain there in the hospital, who had never performed a wedding before, who came to our hospital room and performed the ceremony there. So it was a lovely, intimate, personal ceremony. We had a great time.”

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And that great time continued as they grew their family with son Haskell, born in 2018, and their daughter—whose name has yet to be revealed—three years later. Naturally, it’s changed their dynamic—and their work.

“The irresistible job is always the one we accommodate,” Carrie explained to Harper’s Bazaar in 2021. “If one of us gets an offer that is like, ‘This is really special,’ we make room for it.”

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What don’t they make room for? Possessiveness and envy.

“We’re not jealous people,” the Gone Girl actress said on a February episode of the WTF With Marc Maron podcast, later adding, “So it’s nice to be in a relationship where we can always talk about, like, ‘Who are you attracted to on set?’”

Noting Tracy “notices every single woman on the street,” Carrie said he will tell her who he has a crush on. “We love talking about it. It’s fun,” she continued. “It’s interesting to know what your partner’s into. It’s titillating.”

It never crosses a boundary, either. “We don’t really like lines,” Carrie shared, noting Tracy lost a partner when he was younger and “would never begrudge anyone a human experience.”

“He sort of embraced being a person of appetites and acknowledging that we have these proclivities,” Carrie said. “Monogamy is sort of something we’ve imposed on ourselves through—we were supposed to have babies and die when were like 30, and that’s not the way life is anymore. So I think you’ve got to be open-minded about what engages you in the world, what sparks your imagination and where your passion is. And I think if you’re willing to stay open to that, then you’re living a more full life. And I don’t think either one of us would want to keep the other from living in the fullest way possible.”

But no, they’re not in an open relationship. “Settle down, internet!” Carrie wrote on X Feb. 25. “I said ‘open minded’ not ‘open.’”

Ultimately, she appreciates the level of honesty they have in their relationship.

“I have a healthy, happy marriage,” Carrie told The Guardian in 2021. “When I was younger, let’s say I didn’t always conduct myself with integrity in my relationships. Now I’ve found a partner who I can be truly honest with, I never want to go back.”

To learn about the relationships of more White Lotus stars, keep reading.

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Jason Isaacs & Emma Hewitt

While Jason Isaacs‘ character Timothy Ratliff is married to Parker Posey‘s Victoria Ratliff on The White Lotus, his wife IRL is Emma Hewitt.

“Without her,” he wrote in 2020’s The Big Issue, “there is no me that I recognize or would want to know.”

Jason met the former documentary filmmaker at the University of London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in the ’80s. At this point, he was battling what he called a “decades-long love affair with drugs,” which ended in 1998 when he became sober.

“When I got clean, I remember my wife saying, OK, at last, we can finally buy a home and we can have kids and get on with our lives,” Jason added. “And I said, actually, darling, I’ve just met you. What are you talking about? She said, we’ve been together for 10 years! I know, I said, and I’m really sorry, but I feel like I’ve just been born, and we have to date and get to know each other.”

When he later asked “why she’d want to be with someone who was just out of their head the entire time,” he continued, she said, “she always loved who I really was and who I really could be.”

The couple wed in 2001 and welcomed daughters Lily and Ruby.

“She decided she was going to give up a very successful career and follow me around and live, with nothing to do, in these far-flung places, and not really feel like part of the crew, in order to get pregnant,” Jason told The Guardian in 2008. “It took us a while and we had IVF, which worked first time for us both times.”

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Patrick Schwarzenegger & Abby Champion

Fans have been seeing, um, a lot of Patrick Schwarzenegger on The White Lotus, but he’s been baring his soul to fiancée Abby Champion for a decade.

“It was 2015!” the model recalled to The Daily Front Row nine years after her meet-cute with the actor, who plays Ratliff son Saxon on the HBO drama. “We met through a mutual friend who I was on a date with and Patrick knew. We’re thankful for him because he introduced us and that led to us getting married.”

While they’re not married yet, Patrick proposed to Abby on the beach in December 2023 and revealed to GQ last September they’re planning a 2025 wedding.

“As I’ve learned, the role is just to make sure that she’s happy, just whatever she wants to do,” the eldest son of exes Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver told the magazine. “I’m happy to give my opinion on things, and otherwise I’m just there to support her and make it so that she has the best day that she wants. That’s really my job.”

For now, they’re happy with their relationship status as each other’s No. 1 fans.

“So proud of the human you are,” Patrick wrote in an Instagram tribute for Abby’s birthday in February. “You continue to inspire me. I love watching your dedication to your family, friends, faith and your work. It’s been a blessing to be on this journey with you & I can’t wait to watch where life takes us.”

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Sam Nivola & Iris Apatow

Wondering how Sam Nivola and Iris Apatow met? No, it wasn’t through, as he once joked to British Vogue, “some secret cabal of nepo kids who hang out in black robes.”

Though we like the idea of his parents—actors Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola—and hers—Leslie Mann and Judd Apatow—playing matchmaker, it was a mutual friend who was responsible for their pairing.

As he recalled to Teen Vogue in February, Sam (who portrays Saxon’s younger brother Lochlan on The White Lotus) and Iris were introduced by their pal Isa Barrett at a London bar. While The Perfect Couple alum said he tried to shoot his shot with The Bubble actress, she was in a relationship at the time and “was not having it.”

But after Iris’ romance ended, Sam decided to see if they could give dating another go. They made their relationship Instagram in the spring of 2024 and have since moved in together.

“I’m so in love, and she’s so amazing,” Sam told Teen Vogue. “I think the thing about moving in with someone is that when you’re this young, it’s always like, ‘Oh my God, you’re going to get sick of them.’ You’re going to spend all day, every day together, and then it’s going to be routine, and you’re going to feel like you’ve been in a marriage for 30 years. I don’t think that would happen with her anyway, just because we’re so in love.”