How to Cope When Your Spoe Is Gay

Contents:

• HOW TO COPE WHEN YOUR SPOE COM OUT AS GAY
• I’M A STRAIGHT WOMAN WHO MARRIED A GAY MAN
• STRAIGHT WOMEN AND THEIR GAY HBANDS
• IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND

HOW TO COPE WHEN YOUR SPOE COM OUT AS GAY

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. 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.

I’M A STRAIGHT WOMAN WHO MARRIED A GAY MAN

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. 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. He’s also always been hont about beg gay and has never hidn om me.

STRAIGHT WOMEN AND THEIR GAY HBANDS

Our son took the news very well and don’t re that his father was gay. I’ve asked my hband about , and he nfirms that he’s gay, not bisexual.

I have doubts that he might leave me someday for a gay relatnship like he did his ex-wife. Would you nsir him bisexual or gay? I thk your hband que clearly nsirs himself gay, which is far more relevant to your marriage than my asssment of his sense of self.

IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND

The qutn of how he se his gayns relatn to his two marriag to women, specifilly his current marriage to you, is both more salient and open-end, so I’d suggt you start by askg him to share more of his thoughts on the subject wh you. That will get you a lot further than tryg to figure out if your hband is “really” bisexual (and, implicly, whether that means you n safely hope he won’t leave you for someone else) or “really” gay (and, implicly, whether you have to fear that he’s gog to break up wh you for another man).

” His gayns isn’t somethg you n ntralize by beg a sufficiently good or extra-lovg wife.