Are gay relationships better
The pros and cons of gay relationships
While our generation has made some great and crucial strides in equality for the LGBT community, I still obtain questions like “What is it like to be in a gay relationship?” from other juvenile people. While this isn’t necessarily an ignorant question, I’m surprised more people don’t realize that my same-sex relationship isn’t very different from any opposite-sex relationship. That being said, with same-sex relationships being so visible now and displaying something that looks different from the norm, I can understand why I fetch asked such questions. So I thought I’d share the pros and cons of gay relationships for those of you wondering how my relationship might verb to others.
Pro: Our Accepting Generation Means You Have Supportive Friends
As I mentioned before, young adults are becoming increasingly accepting of different kinds of love and relationships. While there are obviously some college-aged people who are more conservative and less reveal to homosexuality, it’s uncommon for someone to lose friends in the coming out process. And
AsI think back on the past 24 years of providing couples counseling for gay male relationships, I sometimes get asked what the differences are that I see (in general) in gay male relationships that are (again, in general), different from straight relationships.
I offer these thoughts to both single and coupled gay men, based on my perspective of what I’ve seen through the years. My experiences and observations as a gay men’s specialist psychotherapist might differ from other gay men, and even other gay male therapists, and we always have to be mindful of not indulging in unfair assumptions, stereotypes, or even prejudices. But since making a relationship work (which I define, in part, as the relationship’s level of satisfaction for each partner and in its overall longevity and subjective “quality” for each partner) is at least in part based on a skills-building process, skills that I believe are required for a gay male relationship to both endure (quantity) and thrive (quality). These are the issues that come up repeatedly in couples counseling sessions:
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This blog was co-authored by Perrin Robinson, M.S.
Are same-sex romantic relationships more or less stable than different-sex relationships? And are changes in legislation and cultural attitudes towards same-sex relationships affecting their stability? Today, sexual minorities are beginning to enjoy some of the same privileges as straight couples, such as legal marriage and protection against employment and housing discrimination in many states. In light of these changes, a fresh look at same-sex relationships and their long-term stability makes sense.
American attitudes towards same-sex relationships today are more supportive than they’ve ever al of same-sex relationships has been steadily rising since (Pew Research Center, ), and the Supreme Court decision endorsing same-sex marriage was a win for many lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals. With these social and legal advances, new attention to the stability of same-sex relationships is warranted.
What does same-sex relationship stability look like today?
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Researchers
Gay, lesbian couples can coach heterosexuals how to improve relationships
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October 20,
Married heterosexual couples can learn a great deal from gay and lesbian couples, far more than the stereotypical images presented by the television show &#;Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,&#; according to the first published observational studies of homosexual relationships.
&#;Gay and lesbian couples are a lot more mature, more considerate in trying to improve a relationship and contain a greater awareness of equality in a relationship than straight couples,&#; said John Gottman, a University of Washington emeritus professor of psychology who directed the research along with Robert Levenson, a University of California, Berkeley, psychology professor.
&#;I think that in years heterosexual relationships will be where gay and lesbian relationships are today,&#; said Gottman, who now heads the Relationship Explore Institute in Seattle.
In the first of two papers published this month in the Journal of Homosexuality, the researchers explored the conflict interaction of homosexual and