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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One of the weirdest moments in the history of SNL. They mashed together what they considered two horrific crushing events that occurred almost simultaneously - the death of Leonard Cohen and Hillary's loss on election night.
So this SNL Hillary Clinton impersonator comes out in her Hillary white pantsuit and plays and sings Cohen's "Hallelujah" while crying and the whole stupid audience starts crying and poor Leonard Cohen was undoubtedly rolling over in his grave at this butchery of his song and being posthumously dragged into this goofy-ass comedy show cryfest. And the completely unrelated events were melded together for no logical reason whatsoever, but emotionally both events gave these nitwits the feels.
It was so weird, it made this dingbat lady ruin her kids' and husband's lives and go lesbian for now.
Idiot.
She needs to be locked up in an insane asylum.
with a name like Melisa i would assume its a chick...then again this is 2019...
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Reminds me of a LIFETIME movie years ago (pretty much all that was on at my Mom’s, who I was visiting). Jean Smart’s character was the wife of a man who came out as gay. He left the family to be honest to his “true self”. Even then I was surprised at how honest the movie was about the hurtful consequences.
Still, by the end all involved came together in a redemptive huddle.
It isn't, she's just looking for P.C. points.
The publicity this minority gets is out of whack with their numbers. It is a strategy to advance pedophilia, which many of them have experienced and still practice as adults.
Next up, the Family appears on HGTV House Hunters, Property Brothers and Kristina on the Coast.
So it’s a choice
What do the kids think?
As a jaycee, I regularly drank beer and worked closely with a man who was a pretty good friend. He was married with two kids and a pretty fair insurance salesman.
To the amazement of lots and lots of people, he declared him self a she and left his wife and kids. He prospered, opening his own insurance agency and devoloping some realestat.
I don’t know what all took place but he took up with a divorced lesbian with several kids. He (she) now firmly ensconced and prosperous set each of the kids up in business. They made commercials featuring the whole family including his aging “mother in law”
“Gee...was she married to George Costanza?”
Did she experience “shrinkage,” and decide right there on a more dependable product, a good dildoe?
Her story is just one of pure selfishness and narcissism.
In sum, she has said: When I was 36, I once found another woman attractive, so I JUST HAD TO EXPLORE IT. Screw everyone and everything else.
She oozes feigned victimhood and if I had to bet, half of the narrative is probably false.
My antidote to this feeling is to go and watch a brief youtube interview or clip from Grace Kelly in the 1950s and 60s. She's not even my generation.
Oh, how touching! What bravery! What integrity!
In truth, the courageous path would be to deny yourself the carnal perversion and commit yourself to the vows you made to your husband and family.
But no. It’s all about you and your right to self-indulgence, no matter who gets hurt in the process.
Missing in the story are her “desires” in the first 35 years of her life. I don’t believe that she suddenly realized she was a lesbian at 36 years old. 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.
“60 years ago this would have meant something totally different.”
60 years ago I was married to a queer who tried to hide it by being a vicious bully. His hatred of me (and women in general) just about destroyed me.
Soul crushing for the husband. Hopefully he successfully untangles from her and keeps a good relationship with the kids.
I am talking about the word gay.
“WHO WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON!!!”
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