I was married wh 2 kids when I realized I'm gay (opn) | CNN

Contents:

• HOW TO COPE WHEN YOUR SPOE COM OUT AS GAY
• FDG OUT YOUR SPOE IS GAY
• DIVORCED UPLE SHAR SPIRG JOURNEY AFTER HBAND OUT AS GAY
• AFTER 20 YEARS OF MARRIAGE, MY DAD CAME OUT AS GAY
• IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND
• I WAS MARRIED WH 2 KIDS WHEN I REALIZED I’M GAY
• THE FEMALE SPOE: A PROCS OF SEPARATN WHEN A HBAND ' OUT' AS GAY

HOW TO COPE WHEN YOUR SPOE COM OUT AS GAY

If a homosexual (or heterosexual) thought has never crossed your md, for example, n be doubly astonishg when — wham! But Diamond and other rearchers have piled numero se studi of gay men who spent years feelg (and actg) fully and fortably homosexual, only then to fall unexpectedly love wh a heterosexual woman.

) Vlet loved San wh all her heart, but she did not fe herself as gay the wake of the affair — nor has she bee volved another same-sex relatnship sce. Ned had been gay his entire adult life. Then you disver that your spoe or partner is, fact, gay.

FDG OUT YOUR SPOE IS 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.

DIVORCED UPLE SHAR SPIRG JOURNEY AFTER HBAND OUT AS 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.

AFTER 20 YEARS OF MARRIAGE, MY DAD CAME 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.

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.

IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND

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.

I WAS MARRIED WH 2 KIDS WHEN I REALIZED I’M GAY

My Hband Is Gay: A Woman's Survival Gui, by Carol Grever. Last summer, Matthew Pl Turner, a New York Tim bt-sellg Christian children’s book thor, announced he was gay and endg his 15-year marriage..

"Beg gay isn’t a new disvery for me.

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

"I'll never fet, our dghter who was eight at the time, almost ne, sayg, 'Daddy, why did you marry Mommy if you were gay? The first time my dad tried to tell me he was gay, didn't go well. What I gleaned om his ramblgs were that he believed that human sexualy was a ntuum and that if he hadn't been born and raised a relig fah that shunned homosexualy, he might have gravated more towards that si of the spectm.

"Dad told me he's gay. He was gay.