Straight spouse support

If you are in a marriage with a partner who has unresolved sexual orientation issues or turns out to be gay, verb out today to someone who can provide emotional support.
Visit OurPath (formerly named Straight Spouse Network) at their website:  or detect an online or in-person support group via OurPath at this link: , read relevant books, and confide in someone you can trust.

Suggested books from the straight spouse perspective:

• The Straight Spouse: A Memoir by Vivian Fransen (Open Door Publications; ): After her husband reveals his same-sex yearnings, a fresh woman struggles to save her marriage from falling apart and learns some hard lessons about “letting go” and moving forward.
• Now Everyone Will Know: The Perfect Husband, His Shattering Secret, My Rediscovered Life {A Memoir} by Maggie Kneip (Garden Street Books; ): A woman embraces the truth about her husband after nearly 25 years of struggling “to preserve herself and her children from stigma.”
• Secrets and Lies: Surviving the Truths That Change Our Lives by Jane Isay (Doubleday; ): Features true sto

  Over the holidays I had a elongated car ride and was getting weary of all the christmas songs. Toward the end I think I started getting a small tired because I started changing some of the words. It was very therapeutic because sometimes you just hold to laugh
  Here are some of my revamped gems.

  &#;It&#;s beginning to see a lot enjoy Christmas.. Becomes, I&#;m beginning to perceive a lot favor fuck this&#;

  And that snow patrol anthem from Greys Anatomy. &#; if I lay here, and forget that you&#;re queer, would you lie with me and forget that I&#;m a girl&#;&#;

  O come ye unfaithful, come out of the closet&#;

  God repose ye merry gentlemen&#;.
  I know my ex likes gentlemen, it caused me such dismay. But be warned if you ask him, he says that he&#;s not gay

  Silent night
  Silent late hours, lonely night, spouse is far out of sight. Went to Home Depot 3 hours ago. Said it was for some wood, boy don&#;t I know.

  For the guys&#; I saw mommy kissing Mrs. Claus, way back in the closet last night.

  John Lennon&#;s Adj Christmas
  So this is christmas
  And daddy likes cock
  So just bend him over
  While th
  
  

  You are not alone

  Welcome!

  Straight Partners Anonymous (SPA) is a help organisation for straight (heterosexual) people who discover or are told that their partner is lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender  (LGBT), and who need facilitate in coping with this discovery and support in their decision about what to do next.

  We are very sorry that you require us, however it is good that you have located SPA. The noun that you are here probably means that you are experiencing some level of distress, or perhaps you are looking for information for yourself or your partner.

  We are here to support you. You are not alone. We comprehend exactly how you are feeling.

  SPA is based in the UK and Ireland and was originally set up in December in a slightly different format. It has been running in its current online form since We included the word ‘anonymous’ in the group specify because members may share as much, or as little, of their identity and personal circumstances as they wish. We take confidentiality very seriously. 

  SPA&#;s purpose is to bring together straight people whose relationship with

  Since my essay, “My Husband Is Having an AffairWith a Man,” was published, I have received many, many comments. Although some of the comments were supportive, many of them were challenging, such as this one:

  Sadly, most married, closeted gay men are manipulative, narcissistic con artists who only think about themselves with only occasional feelings of guilt and remorse. Their decision to leave or keep in their marriages is never out of consideration for the wife. [The comments—mostly from women—have been edited slightly]. Her comment made me angry and defensive.

  I really am sorry for your pain. I verb that anything more I say risks suggesting that you’re not entitled to your pain. That is not my intent.

  My father died in a farm accident when I was 3 years old, creating a cloud that cast a dark shadow over me for most of my early life. Three themes dominated my thoughts: 1. Being a man was dangerous. 2. If I survived, I would be the best father any kid ever had. 3. My father’s death fractured my sense of manliness. These things nourished my denial of my same-sex attractions