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I was married with 2 kids when I realized I'm gay
CNN ^ | 6/10/19 | Melisa Raney

Posted on 06/10/2019 8:12:13 AM PDT by madprof98

Where I fell on the sexuality spectrum would take me the better part of two years to figure out. A part of myself wasn't living. And by not letting that part live, I was slowly dying.

There's a price of admission for coming out as gay later in life. Over the course of several months, I paid the price daily. It was like I was watching a movie about myself but unable to control what was unfolding. Everything fell apart.

I did my best to slowly confide in my husband. But I kept many of my feelings inside to avoid hurting him. He tried to be supportive, but he also needed answers.

He felt unsettled and scared about the uncertainty of our future. He asked several times if I was a lesbian. It was a question that felt impossible to answer because I knew what that answer would mean.

***

I confided in my sister first. I wasn't brave enough to actually say the words -- the label of being gay or a lesbian was too much for my soul to bear at the time -- so I sent her a text message, "I am not straight."

She responded perfectly, asking if she could buy a Pride flag and offered to tell my parents.

Later that day, I got two of the most relieving texts from my parents that I've ever received.

***

That's what I'm striving to do now: shape a new life that includes my now ex-husband and my kids. Our family structure just looks a little different than it used to.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: chat; degenerate; egomania; homosexualagenda; marriage; narcissism; psychology; women
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To: madprof98

Paging Subaru.


61 posted on 06/10/2019 8:42:02 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Thank you...I realize that. I just had an unpleasant flash-back.


62 posted on 06/10/2019 8:43:47 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: madprof98

No one cares about this person’s story.


63 posted on 06/10/2019 8:45:18 AM PDT by SteveO87
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To: avenir
I saw that and thought of that exact movie when I saw this article posted.

Even back then I was totally disgusted. You could the see the writing on the wall for TV which was transitioning into homosexual agenda driven TV.

64 posted on 06/10/2019 8:46:32 AM PDT by LibertyWoman
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To: madprof98

Spot On.


65 posted on 06/10/2019 8:48:45 AM PDT by carmen2017
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To: madprof98

Yawn... just another story of a married person getting bored and looking outside the marriage. Big deal, she’s attracted to a woman so that’s what makes this newsworthy? Bull Shirt, this is just another cheating story that we are somehow supposed to think less seedy because it’s homo attraction instead of hetro attraction. If she humped her male yoga instgructor, it would just be too typical and too boring, so she’s special by humping her female yoga instructor. Still selfishly screwing with children’s lives, though.


66 posted on 06/10/2019 8:48:57 AM PDT by rhombus10
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To: bert

Barf.

Why did you have to tell me that?


67 posted on 06/10/2019 8:50:57 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: cdcdawg

Yeah, right? Just a bit different look???
What a simpleton!


68 posted on 06/10/2019 8:54:56 AM PDT by bantam
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To: goodnesswins

I think some of these liberals become so indoctrinated that they convince themselves they are gay. Lots of weak-minded people can be talked into anything, especially if its hip or cool.


69 posted on 06/10/2019 8:57:02 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: 9422WMR

It’s faggies this, & faggies that, & faggies everywhere and I am SICK of it!!!

The Army wedding with two faggies in dress blues kissing beneath the arch of swords...that was rock bottom, right there.


70 posted on 06/10/2019 8:57:02 AM PDT by elcid1970 (No matter how bad things get, it can only be worse in New Jersey!)
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To: madprof98

“I am not straight.”

I’d have told her to see a chiropractor...


71 posted on 06/10/2019 8:58:08 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: RatRipper
On New Year's Day this year, I came out on social media.

And EVERYONNNNNNNNNNNNNNN has to know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

72 posted on 06/10/2019 9:00:59 AM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: Timocrat

Exactly. Why does “realizing” you are gay give you a pass out of the marriage any more than “realizing” you love someone else.


73 posted on 06/10/2019 9:03:44 AM PDT by lerker
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To: madprof98

“I’m trying to think of one single reason it wouldn’t be better for ISIS to invade and destroy all these people ASAP.

At moments like these I keep thinking that when the muzzies finally take over, it’ll be an improvement.


74 posted on 06/10/2019 9:06:15 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: madprof98

Mentally ill moron


75 posted on 06/10/2019 9:07:59 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Kickass Conservative
Next up, the Family appears on HGTV House Hunters, Property Brothers and Kristina on the Coast.

Don't forget "The Amazing Race".

76 posted on 06/10/2019 9:08:41 AM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: madprof98

You could get out of a bad marriage with feisty kids by going through a messy divorce, OR

YOU COULD JUST BECOME GAY!!


77 posted on 06/10/2019 9:12:30 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: madprof98

“A part of myself wasn’t living. And by not letting that part live, I was slowly dying. “

In other words, “I want to act out all my perverse fantasies and am willing to break any commitment that stands between me and my own self-centered lusts.”


78 posted on 06/10/2019 9:12:53 AM PDT by griffin
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To: caww

“Utterly mentally ill nonsense!”

We’re suffering from a severe case of Affluenza.

Only in a society where all the physical needs are easily met could such delusions prosper.

Eventually these delusions will kill the Affluenza and normality will be restored


79 posted on 06/10/2019 9:13:10 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: mikelets456

if somebody had never heard about the United States before and was just tuning in, theyd think it was 90% gay and black.....


80 posted on 06/10/2019 9:15:15 AM PDT by basalt
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