How to Survive (and W) a Gay Breakup

GAY RELATNSHIP BREAKUP CAN BE PROBLEMATIC. HERE’S HOW TO AVOID THE RISKS

Ken Howard, LCSW, CST, offers ways to spot the risk factors for a gay relatnship breakup, and how to avoid them. * long term gay relationship break up *

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Approval of same-sex relatnships has been steadily risg sce 2009 (Pew Rearch Center, 2017), and the 2015 Supreme Court cisn endorsg same-sex marriage was a w for many lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) dividuals. This is nsistent wh prev fdgs: Gay and bisexual men are exposed to mory strsors that n -stabilize relatnships (Meyer, 2003; L, 2012).

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Jt like straight upl, gay unmarried partners were more likely to break up at the start than later on the relatnship. After passg the 10-year mark, ls than 10% of gay upl choose to break up. Us gays, wh our propensy for the dramatic, might wish that when a relatnship ends we'd bee Dty's Child and emerge om the tear-staed sea, cked mo, reborn strong and pennt "Survivor"-style, but realistilly you're gog to be a plete fuckg begs are predictable creatur.

It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch.

HOW TO AVOID A GAY RELATNSHIP BREAKUP – THE FOUR RISKS

To be classified as te homosexual behavr, the form, motivatn and functn would all have to be sexual nature, he said.