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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.

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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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KEYWORDS: chat; degenerate; egomania; homosexualagenda; marriage; narcissism; psychology; women
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Why doesn’t CNN declare that they are the radical leftist arm of the National Enquirer and get it over with...


121 posted on 06/10/2019 2:19:21 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I recall that concept ;-).


122 posted on 06/10/2019 2:37:34 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Be like Kendrick, Brendan, and Riley.)
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To: LibertyWoman

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.


123 posted on 06/10/2019 2:55:33 PM PDT by avenir
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To: Rebelbase

My grandmother used to talk about having gay times back in the day.

She wasn’t talking about kick’n it with her homegirls.


124 posted on 06/10/2019 3:09:35 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: gaijin

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!


125 posted on 06/10/2019 7:15:02 PM PDT by Bommer (Help 2ndDivisionVet - https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=category&term=married-recent-ampute)
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To: PGR88

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.


126 posted on 06/10/2019 7:21:59 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: mikelets456

“What else could I say? Everyone is gay.” - Kurt Cobain


127 posted on 06/10/2019 7:24:44 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: gaijin
But some chicks deliberately tie up sweaters in rubber bands, or whatever, the better to MAKE SURE guys check out their as$es.

Problem is, they’re the ones who pretend to mind if you do.


In my experience, they want the right guys looking at them. Tall, muscular, handsome? Look all you want. Not one or any of those things? “Ew, don’t look at me, perv!”
128 posted on 06/10/2019 7:25:13 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: Steve_Seattle

I’ve never had enough fluid to be THAT fluid.


129 posted on 06/10/2019 7:26:19 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If we get Medicare for all, will we have to show IDs for service?)
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To: Stravinsky

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.


130 posted on 06/10/2019 7:48:20 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Antoninus
The kids are the ones who will be the most damaged by this and the fact of the matter is that mom does not care. Her sexual needs are all that matters.

This. She broke her commitment to her family. She failed. Her selfishness is disgraceful.

131 posted on 06/10/2019 7:59:29 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: MarvinStinson
What do the kids think of this?

Parents always say, "the kids will get over it" while they're destroying their world.

132 posted on 06/10/2019 8:01:20 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Yaelle
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.

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.

133 posted on 06/10/2019 8:13:20 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: 9422WMR
".... Since when does less that 1% of the population require a majority of the topics of entertainment?...."

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.

134 posted on 06/10/2019 8:21:19 PM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: Drew68
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

In contrast, I have my 1959 Little League directory. It lists the parents of all 240 players: 239 two-parent families.

135 posted on 06/10/2019 8:42:45 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: madprof98

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.


136 posted on 06/10/2019 9:19:36 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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To: HotHunt
They have the microphone.

At some point, people need to stop listening to them. Paying attention to people who get off on proclaiming their selfishness publicly only feeds their pathology.
137 posted on 06/11/2019 6:26:08 AM PDT by Antoninus ("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
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To: Antoninus
".... At some point, people need to stop listening to them...."

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.

138 posted on 06/11/2019 6:38:16 AM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: Drew68

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.


139 posted on 06/11/2019 10:25:41 AM PDT by Yaelle
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