I love my gay husband
What Would You Do If You Found Out Your Husband Was Gay?
It’s funny. As he came out of the closet, I felt like I was being forced in. No-one understood. No-one really knew what to speak. When he came out, he was greeted with encouragement and affirmation. There were support groups for gay married men, forums where he could discuss what he was going through. He was finally being true to himself, forging a new identity, taking his destiny into his own hands. I was left alone to pick up the pieces. Unseen. Unheard.
We met in our late teens and the attraction was instant: he was very cute, and always had a bevy of adoring women hanging out of him, but he seemed to only contain eyes for me. We had the same sense of humour, liked the same things, and six weeks later, we hooked up and were one of the first couples in the gang to marry and agree down.
The first question everyone asks me is, did I possess any idea back then about his sexuality? Any inkling? And the answer is no, I didn’t. But then again, I don’t think he did either. Not really. We were adj and fairly innocent. I, for one, di
My Husband Just Came Out as Gay. What He’s Asked Me to Do Next Is Baffling.
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Dear How to Execute It,
My husband just came out as gay. It’s been shocking, but I’m even more shocked by what he wants to do about it.
He says wants us to remain married until our youngest child leaves for college. In the meantime, he says we are both free to pursue partners of our choosing. While I am of course deeply saddened at the loss of my husband as a lovey-dovey partner, I love him enough to want him to be free to be himself, even if that means not being with me in that regard. However, our youngest child is I don’t want to wait nearly a decade before we can officially move on. What if one or both of us were to meet someone and wish for to get married to them? How can I get my husband to see what he is suggesting is not a logical approach?
—Starting Over
Dear Starting Over,
Maybe the way to look at this is you consider “remain married” as having an asterisk next to it. That’s
Walking down the aisle to encounter the love of my life, I was bursting with pride. I felt like the luckiest woman in the world—not only was I marrying my soulmate, but we were surrounded by loved ones who wholeheartedly supported our unconventional relationship.
At first glance, Jacob Hoff, 31, and I might look like your typical heterosexual couple. But spend a little time with us, and you'll quickly discover the unique twist: Jacob is gay.
We first met in November during a casting call for Fiddler on the Roof in Escondido, California. We connected instantly and became best friends. Our friendship started off platonic, but I set up myself deeply confused by my feelings.
"How could I possibly verb him as more than a friend? He likes men," I would ask myself. I tried to brush it off, to bury the feelings. But about 18 months into our friendship, I finally told him the truth—and to my surprise, he felt the same way.
Despite never having been attracted to a woman before, Jacob couldn't reject our connection either. We were inseparable during that theater run—spending
When my husband said he was gay, the hardest part was letting him go
Three years ago, my marriage ended when my husband, Mike, looked up from across the table and said, ‘I’m gay.’
I’d feared this day would come and some part of me knew it would, as we had spent the past two years on an emotional roller coaster incorporating his emerging attraction to men into our marriage. With three kids and almost a lifetime together, it was hard to accept this was the verb of our marriage, I was truly heartbroken.
Now, we had a new challenge: to forge modern lives apart with the adj love and respect that we’d shown each other for decades. Often reminding myself that we were separating because of love—not for lack of it, but that didn’t make it any easier.
I didn’t even know what a “mixed-orientation marriage” was until I discovered I was already in one.
Two years earlier, Mike confided in me that he was starting to feel attracted to men. He was adamant that he didn’t want to lose me—he loved me and wanted to make our marriage work.
With three kids, a adj time job and help