I am hearing, I am a child of deaf parent's. I found I always got along better with the deaf and hard of hearing, than I did with hearing people. The deaf and hard of hearing always seemed more honest than the hearing.
I did marry a deaf man, it will be 27 years this coming October. I learned to sign when I was 4 years old, so we didn't have a problem with communicating with each other.
We have 2 hearing daughters, as babies, when they learned to say a new word, we would teach them the sign that goes with that word. Today they both sign fluently.
We can't forget our little foster son Tiger, who is deaf and 8 years old. When we took him in, he couldn't sign at all. My husband and I taught him to sign and for the last 3 years he has been signing fluently.
Life is great with my deaf/hearing family.