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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.

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

Anyone who likes to identify by what they like sexually is just plain neurotic

Any man who has a family and obviously orgasms with a woman and then one day decides he likes a hard Willie up his arse and the hot breath of a man on his neck and the stench of rectum in the room

Needs to carry a lot of air freshener around

Speaking practically

My oldest boy who’s 19 was with me Saturday nite while we did rounds and decided to just sight see around 11 downtown Nashville the CMA music fest crowds

Two shows going on at the stadium and the amphitheater

Downtown packed

We were girl watching of course...man it’s pretty good place for that

We decided to go home the Trace so I south on Church street and slowed as we passed the blocks with homosexual hangouts....why do lesbians and fags hang out together ..weird

Anyhow...all the leather guys were out front of some gay bar.....Bears I guess.....pasty hairy guys in leather police caps. And leather lederhosen looking outfit....we both started laughing

So weird...these were not buff twinks...

I will never get it

Hi honey I want a divorce so I can go do “that”


101 posted on 06/10/2019 10:07:48 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: RoosterRedux

When you have children you put their needs first. If the author wanted to divorce she should have waited until the kids were independent. She sacrificed her children’s mental health & happiness for sex.


102 posted on 06/10/2019 10:16:12 AM PDT by JayGalt (You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance.)
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To: madprof98

My advise for all these people with uncontrollable urges? Snap out of it.


103 posted on 06/10/2019 10:21:46 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: madprof98

That Hormel guy who was appointed to ambassador had 6 kids before he discovered he was never attracted to women.


104 posted on 06/10/2019 10:23:40 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: madprof98
A part of myself wasn't living. And by not letting that part live, I was slowly dying.


105 posted on 06/10/2019 10:25:55 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: rexthecat

This woman is a self-centered, destructive jerk. Period.


106 posted on 06/10/2019 10:29:48 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("The strangest women run wild down there Covered head to toe with Fur and hair." Al Stewart in Hanno)
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To: madprof98

I’ve got two words for you Mel, “mental illness”


107 posted on 06/10/2019 10:34:45 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: dead

and go lesbian for now....”

Sounds like you won’t be too surprised when this idiot is testifying that the biggest mistake she ever made was declaring herself gay and throwing her blood family over to rub crotches with random strangers...


108 posted on 06/10/2019 10:35:30 AM PDT by TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitch!)
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To: goodnesswins
"Tired of all the homo people and their stories, and focus."

With the overkill in representation of the homos, lesbians and trannies in the entertainment industry today, you'd think that every other person in the world was one of the above.

110 posted on 06/10/2019 10:56:54 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: madprof98

Satan at work.


111 posted on 06/10/2019 11:03:33 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: madprof98

Sister- You go girl.
Parents- Whatever makes you happy dear.
Ex husband- Whew! Glad I got out of that!


112 posted on 06/10/2019 11:10:20 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (Sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution - Judge Jeanie Pirro)
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To: madprof98

So she played with a woman while she was still married. How much did she get of his money in the divorce settlement? Should get nothing.


113 posted on 06/10/2019 11:16:09 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Islam, not a religion, a totalitarian political ideology aiming for world domination. -Wilders)
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To: caww

Right! A person can have attractions to both sexes but still be monogamous and faithful the rest of their lives. I mean, married heterosexuals can still be attracted to others and not KILL A PART OF THEMSELVES if they don’t immediately penetrate the cute waitress or handsome bartender.


114 posted on 06/10/2019 11:28:28 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Steve_Seattle

The left keeps bouncing back and forth between the “homosexuality is hard-wired” theme (this article), and the “gender is fluid” theme (the main trend for the last couple of years).


It appears both are true. People cannot seem to help whom they find sexy or attractive. Yet there are many people who sometimes are attracted to men and sometimes to women (bisexuals).

And while the vast majority of people feel inside like the gender they are, the number of people who feel like the other gender or even like no gender is increasing. They really do feel this way. It can’t be fun to feel like a woman and look like a man. We need lots of empathy and love for people trying to live life with such a disability.


115 posted on 06/10/2019 11:32:09 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Sans-Culotte

Exactly what I just said above.


116 posted on 06/10/2019 11:32:41 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: goodnesswins
Tired of all the homo people and their stories, and focus.

And you know they're never shooting straight on the fact of these accounts. They deal in lies.

117 posted on 06/10/2019 11:44:35 AM PDT by fwdude (Think about it: Blacks were made slaves in Africa, but were made free men in America.)
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To: NorthMountain
Buzz off, bitch. Don't pollute that man's kids' minds with your perversions, and quit bothering him.

This is what happens when society tries to mainstream the mentally ill.

118 posted on 06/10/2019 11:56:28 AM PDT by gogeo (Liberal politics and mental instability; coincidence, correlation, or causation?)
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To: madprof98

What a great post.


119 posted on 06/10/2019 12:14:22 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: madprof98

I was married with 2 kids when I realized I’m a flaming heterosexual and I am still occasionally attracted to women other than my wife. And yet, somehow I have been happily monogamous for over 30 years now. Could it be that humans are more than just slaves to our sexual impulses and have the ability to exercise free will?


120 posted on 06/10/2019 1:14:21 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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