GIRL!!!! they be on that otha stuff forreal.

I'm a little dissapointed to hear this. I was hoping they were a couple that could prove that you can be big time celebrities and survive a marriage with any outside interferences. But whatever works for them...

To each is own.

I must admit I'm disappointed too. I really they were perfect marriage.....
Whether it is agreed to or not, it's adultery.

Wow, that's wild...but at least they are honest and open with one another.

I wonder how many men would have a problem with this, if their woman was only sleeping with other women?

There is nothing wrong with what they are doing. I tell my man that if he is going to do it to strap up and make sure I don't know about it.

I'm very disappointed with this information. I always felt that this marriage was one that young couples could admire, so regardless of what they think or how they try to you skip around it this is adultery.

What's the point and why be married if you have to do all that. I thought the point of marriage was committment and settling down. As humans we all have temptation but dayum satisfying your temptation while married. I dont understand that but I guess!!!

Where are the morals?? Marriage seems more like a game these days. You have open marriages, people getting married over and over and divorced in less than a year. To each their own!!!

I have always heard the rumors about Will and Jada, but thought it was just rumor. With their attitudes towards relationships, perhaps they should not have married, afterall, Marriage is about committment.

I agree with Just Me and Lisa, why be married if you need all of the extra. I too am disappointed. They are my favorite couple, but part of that was because I thought they were setting an example. What are they teaching their children? That it is okay to cheat?

How in the world could this be good for the children. All I can say is this type of lifestyle is not accepptable. I always believed they were good role model for our young married couple outhere but now I don't no.

Yeah, I really admired them for standing strong being a young famous couple and making it, now I have a completely different outlook on them. Where are the morales of Marriage?

I am shocked to death. I am also very embarrassed and disappointed. Why be married then? They can both live apart and bitch on each other.

I think you guys need to re-read his quote:

"And if it came down to it, ..."

The optimal word is "IF".

Sheesh!

I agree Ms. Vette
It did say IF that's how people words get twisted now folks saying they have a marriage filled with adultery and who are we to judge them that's their business. Folks always want to put their mouth on people. When if we opened the closet of their life it would be filled with all sort of things that others would think is unacceptable behavior.

I guess Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee will be the only decent Hollywood Black married couple to look up to. I am disappointed as well. How do you teach your children about the morals and values of being in a committed relationship. They can not control what other people may say to their children. I guess that is why they are starting that new school. What purpose does the marriage serve? They are both attractive people, I would not be surprised if "it came down to it..." quite often. If they are not praciticing this lifestyle then why talk about it at all? If they want to live their lives this way, so be it, but don't cover it up with marriage. Also, if they did not want to be judged, then Will should have kept his mouth closed and this issue would have simply been an unconfirmed rumor and nothing more.

This is really disappointing to me. In my opinion, this is an arrangement and not a marriage. Marriage is a holy covenant between one man and one woman. I feel no matter the understanding the emotional aspect of sexual relationship can enter into the picture and potential cause a drama triangle. Then, a personal matter that should be resolve between the parties involved becomes a public matter put on blast by the media.

You know just reading these responses is makes me shake my head in disgust. People need to worry about themselves and their own relationships and while you are at it WAKE UP! Monogamy is a MYTH! The reason that there are so many marriages and divorces is because people, women in particular continue to try to make themselves believe that a man is supposed to be with one woman and that being with one woman defines commitment.

There are many other ways to be committed and if you have ever been married you would clearly understand that. Ask yourself how many marriages and relationships end because of so called cheating? Then consider the animal kingdom where very rarely does a male ever have one mate. Then consider that he European society is the only society where this one man one woman things is even considered as a realistic option. Then Finally ask yourself if a man being with one woman is a realistic expectation? Get over it! If you want to stay in a relationship an open one is the way to do it. If you want to be stuck on your so called morals then have them comfort you at night! Sorry to inform you but monogamy is a MYTH. The reason marriages used to last is not because men didn’t have more than one woman, it was because women knew it was not grounds for divorce. I applaud Wil and Jada with the emphasis on Jada. She knows she has a good man an she is not going to let his desire to spend an hour (or probably less) with someone else ruin that. One last thing, what are they teaching their kids? How about how to have two black parents in the home together at the same time ever day. How many of us are doing that in the US today? Get over yourself!

Wake UP honey..........Somebody needs to take a Bible(the word of God)and paste it to your soul. It's funny how we set the good book aside and live life likes there's no eternity. God means what HE says......no exceptions. Monogamy is not a MYTH, it is a REQUIREMENT that God demands from His children! There's a difference between having an open relationship where the two agree to sleep around and knowing your being cheating on and living with the hurt from it but either way the children suffer. IT IS NOT OKAY TO SLEEP AROUND WHEN YOU MARRIED!!!! Bottom line is..don't get married if you can't be faithful. Don't mock God's very first institution. There are many penalties for doing so....ask my ex-husband who has Herpes and HIV

I guess that you didn't read the pages in the "good book" that reference a man with multiple women all thoughout the old and new testaments. It is funny how people selectively choose bits and pieces of the bible to support their own perspectives and ignore the remainer. Never did I say that "sleeping around" was a good idea if your ex has HIV and Herpes that probably means that he wasn't very smart not that he doesn't understand or desire an eternity with GOD. The bible says many things miss Values and I am sure that you are not adhering to ALL of them. Ever read the part where it says that no sin is greater than another? That is if not being monogamous is even a sin in the first place. One more question? Why do your kids know about your sex life?

GOOOOOOO WILLLLLL GOOOOOOOOO Jadaaaaaaaaa much love to you

My answer for you is to read Matthews which will teach you about what God says about marriage. I'm not sure why you still think it's okay. The bits and pieces that you pick out are the pieces that still make you think it's okay to live any kind of way and be granted eternity.........Everyone one of us is just one bad choice away from something bad happening to us for choosing to not accept what God says in his word and turning around what he says to stay in our mess. Who said my kids know about my sex life? I never said anything like that!!!!! We ALL sin and have come short so Wake UP nobody is pointing the finger. It just time for us ALL to clean our lives up. In Will and Jada's case if it is true that they have an open marriage and they practice it then it's wrong........that goes back to my original statement "it's time to stop setting the word of God aside". It's one thing to know your doing wrong and keep doing it and another to not know. God married one man and one women, not one man and four women. Disease should never be associated with intelligence. I sure there are smart people and stupid people with this disease.

God bless you miss values, God bless you. I really don't know where you get off telling two grown people that have been happily married for 10 years that what they are doing is wrong when your marraige as described by you didn't seem to fair so well. Again, it distrubs me how bible thumpers, and people in general judge but don't look in the mirror. I guess you skipped the glass house first stone part of the bible too. Good luck to you miss values and may your values take you where you think they should. I'll keep operating with mine and hope for the same. You go Jada and Wil, may your marriage stay happy and strong.

Wow, I think everyone is letting this article get to them a little too much. That is Will and Jada's business if that's what they choose to do and it keeps their home life happy then so be it. And the quote does say "IF" he didn't say they actually have done it just that the option is there. Monique and her husband have the same thing but she says in the years they have been married (3 I think) they have not gone outside of their marriage BUT the option to talk about it is there if they get a temptation. Lets all just calm down, if these people choose to have that type of relationship who are we to judge?! It's there business, they have or seem to have a strong relationship they have been together for 10 yrs, 2 kids (together) they must be doing something right.

I am not surprised; I heard the rumors from day one. As long as it works for them and anyone else that particapates in that realationship, all is well.
To Will, Jada and whoever gets down with the open marriage.
To the swingers.

i love how dude says "monogamy is a myth" and goes on to talk about how back in the day, it wasnt just one woman for one man. that is true..

so--since you think its cool for one man to have multiple women....do u think its cool for one woman to have multiple men? cuz i mean, your flippin out on the ladies here that have their opinions on how a marriage should be....and your defending Will Smith as if he'd be the only one gettin action on the side--and then you credit Jada for 'stickin by her man' and shyt like that...seems to me like u think the whole "open relationship" aspect only counts for the MAN. You dont think Jada should be gettin her kicks too if theyre havin an open relationship?

and all of you that agree with this are tellin me that if yur married, assuming its to your "one and only" girl of your dreams, who you love with all yur heart and are devoted to entirely(....since thats the person you SHOULD be marrying) yur tellin me that if YOUR WIFE---who you LOVE AND CHERISH___wanted to go out and SLEEP WITH ANOTHER MAN....you would be OK with that??? i HIGHLY doubt it..

U are soooooo right Crazyness.......

WRONG is WRONG and RIGHT is RIGHT!!!!
We have to ask ourselves "Is what I do wrong in the eyes of GOD or is it right?" Not what I feel is wrong or right! It's not about what we think as person or what's in our mind because man will always do what the flesh wants to do. Don't get me wrong WakeUp...I'm speaking of myself to(as I stated before we all fall short and I'm not pointing the finger because I'm human too and that same finger will point back at me)I'm just saying what needs to be said. It's not right for Jada or Will. "IF" this is true, sooner or later this marriage will end. It's in our nature to get jealous and someone is going to get pissed off about it.(if this is true). THANKS FOR THE DEBATE :-)

Committment and sexual fidelity are too entirely different concepts. As a child, I use to wonder about some of the marriages I observed in my family. There were a few "open marriages" that I witnessed and those are the ones that stayed married. I will admit, I was a little confused and maybe a tad bit judgemental, but that did not change the fact that my relatives were happy and appeared to be as committed (if not more so) to each other as my family members who "seemed" to practice fidelity. I believe the ones who permit their partners to be who they are and offer unconditional acceptance are being true friends to their mates and sometimes that means accepting that they may have sex outside of the marriage bed. Love is a lot more than what happens in a bedroom and I think the reason Will admitted this in an overseas publication instead of in America is our quickness to judge others when they live differently from us.

I am not trying to say that it is morally correct what Will and Jada are doing but it works for them. Sometimes the wrong thing works out to be best. Now since we are speaking of the Bible, most of you should go to Bible.com and put the word wives in the word search. To the surprise of many of you, you will see that many of God's chosen men had more than one wife and were Christian! Now being that God is the All Knowing, was it good only for SOME MEN (pure in submittion to God) then? Just making a point. Lets stop being emotional and see things as they are. A lot of men cheat on their wives. If it was open for them to do so would that make it better? I do not think so based on what I have read from others. So men more than likely will continue cheating and women can either act like it is not their man doing it and live in fantasy or accept that it happens.

as long as will and jada are happy, so be it.....who are we to judge the next man/woman and how they run their lives.

i'm sure that many of you on this list have sucked a few dycks in your lives or phucked a few women that you had no business dealing with.....it's all relative.

marriage is whatever the two people getting married decide it to be.

i just want them to come out with a video so that i can watch that shyt.....lol

i bet jada is a beast in them sheets.....lol

Nothing new.... We've known this as long as we've known the government killed Kennedy! Yet to comment on some of the others postings... whatever keeps two people in a trusting and committed relationship is good. Who gives a good goddamn what we think about it. You can't put guidelines on what they have agreed will make and maintain their happiness. Stay out of their bedroom, unless they approach you personally...lol

I have read all the comments and I know that individuals have a right to their opinions about subject matters. However, I feel that nobody is a subject matter expert when it comes to relationships. Relationships are very special to those that are involved in their relationship. What may work for one may not work for another. Yes, the word of God does state that once you have committed adultery your vow has been broke within the trinity of God, husband, and the wife. However, I will have to commend the relationship because we all sin and fall short of the glory of God, but Will and Jada are very honest about their relationship to each other. You have a lot of husband and wives that commit adultery on a daily basis because it is thought, deed or act, however they are just open with theirs. I believe that we as people have more similarities than none. I think we all have thought things, not necessary sexual things or done things were are a sin and probably do them on a daily basis, but when a couple says that they have outside partners they are doomed to hell, I totally disagree with that, because we have Pastors preaching, songtress singing, etc... and alot of sin is right there in the church, but the good thing about me is that I do not reflect on the person's sin. I let my light shine from what God has instilled in me in hopes that people recognize it so that instead of quoting what the word says pray for them and ask God to deliever them, however if they want to be deliever. This is something they may enjoy and they have to answer to God for it, and basically we pray for them and their family. We are so quick to judge, and yes the word says that we can, but as wicked as this world is who that does not sin cast the first stone. I love the both of them and I commend them for what they are doing in their lives, I may not agree with the sin, but I love them and at least they are keeping a commandment of God's as far as leaving a legacy for their children. How many people can exactly say that they have something to leave their families that can be extended from generation to generation. There is nothing new under the sun, it is what it is. It is not a disappointment to me because history repeats itself, the bible speaks of this, Lots story tells it all. We trip over people, but how many people have you ever heard say that the bible which was written by King James was a prior homosexual...do we research these types of things, but we worry about a human who is in error or in truth in their eyes. Peace and blessings.

No what kills me...is that people always say KING JAMES WROTE THE BIBLE...and he did not!!!! He TRANSLATTED, the writers of the bible like (Luke, John, Matthew, David, etc.) Wrote the bible. And just because you are a homo...don't make you not love the Lord. No disrespect to anymore here, but I am just saying, we need to be mindful of facts that we spit out when we lack specifics. Also As far as Will and Jada is concerned, not one time did they say...we sleep with other people, it said...if...IF...IF...it came down to it. There comments are more of a way to express how open and secure they are in their relationship with one another, not their SWINGING BEHAVIOR. Folks perception is everything. MY GOODNESS!