Health issu for gay men and other men who have sex wh men - Mayo Clic

Contents:

• 6 SIGNS OF A HEALTHY GAY RELATNSHIP
• HOW TO MATA A HEALTHY GAY RELATNSHIP
• IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND

6 SIGNS OF A HEALTHY GAY RELATNSHIP

INDEX Intro Stag of Healthy Gay RelatnshipsIntro To Domtic VlenceIntroductn to Gay Male Domtic VlenceTreatment Of Domtic VlenceTreatment Of Domtic VlenceDV LksReferenc Before discsg what is obvly velopment of dysfunctnal relatnship procs, a review of healthy gay upl' velopment would be helpful. While there are many that wish to prent gay relatnships as herently dysfunctnal (see for example lk 1, and lk 2), work by rpected thors such as Gottman and Julien (Julien et al, 2003) dite otherwise. Gay and lbian upl seek the same kd of mutually supportive, romantic, and emotnally timate bonds as straight upl.

HOW TO MATA A HEALTHY GAY RELATNSHIP

They fe relatnship satisfactn largely the same way as of the earlit and most well known mols of gay uple velopment was that of McWhirter and Mattison (1984, 1987a, 1987b).

IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND

McWhirter and Mattison nceptualized gay relatnships as nsistg of six stag. They began their discsn of their mol, however, by discsg the climate which gay relatnships velop.

They noted that: "Heterosexual upl do not grapple wh issu about rol, fanc, ownerships, and social obligatns the same way as gay men do. The heterosexual uple that was ncerned about acceptance by their mutual fai was exceptnal, whereas this was the le for homosexual upl.... Heterosexual upl lived wh some expectatn that their relatnships were to last "until ath do part, " whereas gay upl wonred if their relatnships uld survive.

Gay men have only the same heterosexual mols, cludg their own fai, which they may try to emulate but fd unsuable....