Why do people break up? The sad tth is that ’s easier to fall love than to stay love. Did you know that 70 percent of straight unmarried upl break up wh the first year? This is acrdg to a longudal study by Stanford soclogist Michael Rosenfeld who tracked more than 3,000 people, married and unmarried straight and gay upl sce 2009 to fd out what happens to relatnships over time. The study found that after five years there was only a 20 percent chance that a uple will break up and that figure dwdl by the time they have been together for ten years. The qutn is, why do so many upl break up wh a year or two? Experts say there are ne key reasons for why this happens.
Contents:
- GAY RELATNSHIP BREAKUP CAN BE PROBLEMATIC. HERE’S HOW TO AVOID THE RISKS
- 5 TIPS FOR GETTG OVER YOUR FIRST (GAY) BREAKUP
- HOW TO SURVIVE (AND W) A GAY BREAKUP
- GAY BREAKUPS: WHEN THE RABOW ENDS
GAY RELATNSHIP BREAKUP CAN BE PROBLEMATIC. HERE’S HOW TO AVOID THE RISKS
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5 TIPS FOR GETTG OVER YOUR FIRST (GAY) BREAKUP
However, there are unique ltle twists when 's your first gay romance that gets s bubble burst.
It's enough to e you to beele back to the closet and curl up wh the dt bunni, mothballs and yterday's fashns, and never reveal your gay self to anyone aga. Gay, straight, bi, pan, or whatever, we're all virgs until we're not.
Straight or gay, we've all got luggage om past relatnships eher wh our old partners, parents, siblgs, school csh or even lleagu.
HOW TO SURVIVE (AND W) A GAY BREAKUP
If you learned nothg else om breakg ee om the closet, remember that bottled up emotns and pent up anxiety didn't make you gay; only prevented you om beg your te gay self.
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GAY BREAKUPS: WHEN THE RABOW ENDS
Tl;dr - experienced my first gay breakup a month ago and feel stupid for not beg over . ” (The first openly LGBTQ+ doll, Gay Bob, was released 1977.
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Unmarried upl on the other hand, both straight and gay, have much higher break-up rat—even when they have been together for more than twenty is ltle to be surprised about here.