Christian children's book thor Matthew Pl Turner and his ex-wife, blogger Jsi Turned, opened up on TODAY about what happened after he me out as gay.
Contents:
- DIVORCED UPLE SHAR SPIRG JOURNEY AFTER HBAND OUT AS GAY
- FDG OUT YOUR SPOE IS GAY
- HOW TO COPE WHEN YOUR SPOE COM OUT AS GAY
DIVORCED UPLE SHAR SPIRG JOURNEY AFTER HBAND OUT AS GAY
* gay after divorce *
Last summer, Matthew Pl Turner, a New York Tim bt-sellg Christian children’s book thor, announced he was gay and endg his 15-year marriage..
"Beg gay isn’t a new disvery for me.
FDG OUT YOUR SPOE IS GAY
"I'll never fet, our dghter who was eight at the time, almost ne, sayg, 'Daddy, why did you marry Mommy if you were gay? If a homosexual (or heterosexual) thought has never crossed your md, for example, n be doubly astonishg when — wham! But Diamond and other rearchers have piled numero se studi of gay men who spent years feelg (and actg) fully and fortably homosexual, only then to fall unexpectedly love wh a heterosexual woman.
) Vlet loved San wh all her heart, but she did not fe herself as gay the wake of the affair — nor has she bee volved another same-sex relatnship sce. Ned had been gay his entire adult life.
But when the marriage is over bee your spoe turns out to be gay, there is a whole different layer of thoughts and emotns to ntend wh. Bonnie Kaye,, me to specialize helpg women face this unanticipated reason for the mise of their marriage after her own marriage llapsed by virtue of her hband beg gay. Kaye reports that when a woman learns the reason for the problems her marriage-namely homosexualy, she go through a wi range of emotns om vastatn, shame, guilt, rponsibily, and perhaps even to repulsn.
HOW TO COPE WHEN YOUR SPOE COM OUT AS GAY
Acrdg to, there are over 4 ln women this untry who are married to, or have been married to gay men, and there are lns more throughout the world. "In almost all s, " Kaye stat, "women wh gay hbands are unaware of their hbands' homosexualy at the time of the marriage.
The answers to the qutns pend on if the gay or lbian spoe knew and tried to reprs the homosexual attractns, whether he or she didn't know they were gay, or if they are bisexual (attracted to both genrs) or pansexual (attracted more to a person's spir or personaly rather than a person's anatomy) so the attractn to their spoe was real was real but not limed to one person or genr. The seems to be no shortage of support out there on this subject matter and I also me across several books on the topic that may be of help to both the gay and straight spoe. My Hband Is Gay: A Woman's Survival Gui, by Carol Grever.
Then you disver that your spoe or partner is, fact, gay. How to Regnize Your Spoe Is Gay. Unls your spoe shar their sexual orientatn wh you, there is no way to know for sure if they are gay.