How to Cope When Your Spoe Is Gay

Contents:

• HOW TO COPE WHEN YOUR SPOE COM OUT AS GAY
• CELEBRATG MY (GAY) DIVORCE
• STRAIGHT WOMEN AND THEIR GAY HBANDS
• FDG OUT YOUR SPOE IS GAY
• IS YOUR HBAND GAY? 6 SIGNS THAT COULD BE A CSE FOR CONCERN
• WHEN YOUR SPOE OUT AS GAY
• THE FEMALE SPOE: A PROCS OF SEPARATN WHEN A HBAND ' OUT' AS GAY

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. 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.

CELEBRATG MY (GAY) DIVORCE

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.

STRAIGHT WOMEN AND THEIR GAY HBANDS

Celebratg My (Gay) DivorceMarriage equaly means divorce equaly—and I feel pri, as well as sadns, about my spl om my WhmanEdor’s Note: This article is part of a seri about the gay-rights movement and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Augt 25, 2013, I said “I do” to Jim, my partner of ne years, who beme my “lawfully wedd hband.

FDG OUT YOUR SPOE IS GAY

I didn’t want to be “gay married”; I wanted to be “married” like any other uple, thank you very much. Our divorce, I thk, did as much as to legimize marriage equaly as our more: How gay marriage beme a nstutnal rightLike so many other people of my generatn, I never thought I’d be able to marry “my hband” and “to love, re for, and support him, ” as we put our vows. As she explaed later, after other gay male upl town got hched, “I like to thk that my [male] iends who have hbands n fd a ty b of validatn hearg that term applied to their chosen one.

IS YOUR HBAND GAY? 6 SIGNS THAT COULD BE A CSE FOR CONCERN

(I also didn’t want to be known as the “gay divorcé, ” as some of my iends began llg me. We did not—uld not—jt snap our fgers and erase our turned out, many of our iends—straight and gay—didn’t thk divorce laws applied to same-sex upl.

Fred Hertz, a California-based lawyer specializg same-sex-fay law, told me: “What is really surprisg to many of my clients is there is no separate set of l for gay upl—nventnal heterosexual divorce law appli to all married upl, gay or straight.

I, too, have been a very public advote for same-sex marriage, and I feared that I had “let down my tribe, ” as another gay man told me after his marriage end.

WHEN YOUR SPOE OUT AS GAY

My Hband’s Not Gay, a show on TLC, has ed an uproar.

THE FEMALE SPOE: A PROCS OF SEPARATN WHEN A HBAND ' OUT' AS GAY

Why do some people bee so outspoken and judgmental about marriag wh one straight and one gay spoe? Fally, the relatnships suggt to some people “reparative therapy, ” the uhil and impossible claim that a person n be changed om gay to straight.