“Open in the most literal sense of the word”, says Vermeir about his current relationship. “For us, that stands for honesty, towards my partner and towards myself. We like to see each other and we like to be together. But life is life and it can happen that you spend a good time with someone else, and that’s it† I try not to be a jealous person. What are we afraid of? We are afraid of losing someone who is valuable to us. But that fear is just as right or wrong in a monogamous relationship as it is in an open one. Because in a monogamous relationship, your sweetheart can also suddenly fall in love with someone else.”
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The actor says that his relationship now feels right, while it was different in the past. “I was married, once,” Vermeir continues. “On honeymoon, my wife had already fallen in love with someone else. So it was written in the stars. But at some point, a year and a half into our marriage, I found out that she had fallen for someone else again. I put her before the choice, we broke up and I was very sad about that. I have renounced it for years. My point is: that breakup would have happened anyway. I learned from it that you have to talk about the possibility of such crushes: because they can exist, they no longer become inner rifts.”
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