"Kirsten, I'm Gay." My hband waed for so long to share his secret. My rponse was shock, fear, vastatn, nfn was overwhelmg. I felt lost.
Contents:
- OUT OM THE LD: HOW MY HBAND ME OUT AS GAY AND CHANGED OUR LIV
- HOW TO COPE WHEN YOUR SPOE COM OUT AS GAY
- WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU FOUND OUT YOUR HBAND WAS GAY?
- FDG OUT YOUR SPOE IS GAY
- THE FEMALE SPOE: A PROCS OF SEPARATN WHEN A HBAND ' OUT' AS GAY
- OUT: WHEN MY HBAND CAME OUT AS GAY, I LOST MYSELF
OUT OM THE LD: HOW MY HBAND ME OUT AS GAY AND CHANGED OUR LIV
When she disvered her hband of 20 years was gay, CB felt strangely relieved – sudnly there was an answer to years of uncertaty * my husband came out as gay *
It may seem odd to some that I will be celebratg May if gay men and gay women w the right to marry given that, jt over two years ago, I disvered that my hband of 20 years was this day, I have no ia how long he has been stgglg wh his sexualy. I knew was more than that, and one ssn asked him straight out: you are eher havg an affair or you are gay?
Neher do I doubt for a send that if, when he was growg up, he had had the basic human right to love a man, be openly lovg wh a man and eventually celebrate the joys of marriage wh a man, that all of this pa would have been the other day, our younger child asked me: “But Mum, I don’t unrstand: did Dad jt wake up one morng and realise he was gay? We know that beg gay is fe, but Dad grew up a time when that jt wasn’t allowed.
HOW TO COPE WHEN YOUR SPOE COM OUT AS GAY
Fdg out your partner is gay n turn your world upsi down and make you qutn everythg about your relatnship." emprop="scriptn * my husband came out as gay *
My hband me out as gay to me a uple of months ago. I knew he had gay experienc before we met and I was very okay wh that.
Most of my iends are gay and I nsir myself to be very open-md and acceptg.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU FOUND OUT YOUR HBAND WAS GAY?
Rourc for stunts and psychologists to ga a better unrstandg of issu that may affect the straight spoe when a wife or hband out as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. * my husband came out as gay *
One of my clost iends me out as gay durg his marriage and I know how jarrg was for him. 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.
FDG OUT YOUR SPOE IS GAY
You notice pop-ups of gay pornography or gay datg s on their vic. You notice a new group of iends on their social media, many of whom are openly gay.
You notice them talkg more about gay people nversatn, eher a posive light or rogatory manner. Among the upl, when the gay, lbian, or bisexual partner out, a third of the upl break up immediately; another third stay together for one to two years and then spl; the remag third try to make their marriag work.
There's no qutn that learng your partner is gay when you believed them to be straight n be extremely difficult. Some straight/gay marriag are happy unns. Blame yourself for "turng" your partner gay.
THE FEMALE SPOE: A PROCS OF SEPARATN WHEN A HBAND ' OUT' AS GAY
No one n turn someone else gay. The experience of disverg your partner is gay n be overwhelmg. People do not choose who they are attracted to, so make sure to not direct homophobic backlash towards your partner.
Many lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr people e out years after they have been married to an oppose-sex heterosexual wife or hband. There were support groups for gay married men, foms where he uld discs what he was gog through. Was he gay?
Then once, a datg se for gay men popped up. But there’s so ltle discsn about the issue of straight people married to homosexual partners, though ’s more mon than most of realise. If your hband thks he might be bisexual or gay, listen refully.
OUT: WHEN MY HBAND CAME OUT AS GAY, I LOST MYSELF
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.
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.