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 ...
Why doesn’t CNN declare that they are the radical leftist arm of the National Enquirer and get it over with...
I recall that concept ;-).
It shows you the progression. At that point, probably to favor the largely female audience of LIFETIME, they showed very starkly how much the husband’s “coming out” hurt the wife and kids.
My grandmother used to talk about having gay times back in the day.
She wasn’t talking about kick’n it with her homegirls.
Next time scream out”Hey! What does your husbands pnssy taste like?” Guaranteed to shut them the hell up and get you a round of applause!
The studios kept it quiet, but she and the rest of Hollywood were just as immoral then as they are now. It’s said Grace slept with every single one of her leading men except Jimmy Stewart.
“What else could I say? Everyone is gay.” - Kurt Cobain
I’ve never had enough fluid to be THAT fluid.
I CAN believe that she selfishly married a man without telling him that she had such desires because she wanted the home, kids, and picket fence and thought he wouldn’t marry her if she admitted to those thoughts. But I don’t believe for a second that it was some mid-30s revelation.
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I am not sure.
This is more like having an affair while married. Happens later in life. Most pepole have times where they are not hitting on all cylinders. Sometimes the predominate culture just seeps into them. On mental wards lots of mentally broken are coming in as homosexual and lesbian. The culture seeps in easily.
This. She broke her commitment to her family. She failed. Her selfishness is disgraceful.
Parents always say, "the kids will get over it" while they're destroying their world.
These stories are inherently so depressing. I was a child during the height of the "Me Decade" years of the late 70s and recall vividly many of my friends' parents abandoning their responsibilities to their families to go shack up, have an affair, all under the excuse of "I need to find myself" or other similar selfish nonsense.
The kids didn't just "get over it." They were devastated. Their worlds were ruined. I have friends today, 50 years old, and they never got over their parents walking out on them when they were children.
When the entertainment industry is made up of that 1%, then they push their gay, lesbian and transgender agenda on to the rest of the population.
They have the microphone.
In contrast, I have my 1959 Little League directory. It lists the parents of all 240 players: 239 two-parent families.
Yawn, this fem-men is a cheap piker and attention whore. Gene Robinson did the same dang thing in the mid 1980s and he was an Epistocol “priest’”.
Poor kids, warped mother and warped dad.
I don't pay them any attention. Nor do I give them any respect or deference.
I still call them queers and faggots. Not exactly PC, but then I don't follow the crowd.
True. My mom at the same time didn’t leave my dad but became part of that feminist ideal - working 60+ hr weeks and leaving me to the wolves. I wish they had been literal wolves. Horrible.
My kids got me 100%, still do.
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