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Support » What do I do now? » April 26, 2019 10:23 pm

6kidslater
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Chalizbet,
You REALLY need consider ending this relationship. I understand that you love him and have spent your entire adult life with him. I started dating my ex the summer after I graduated from high school. The cold hard reality of this is there is no going back to before. The feeling of not being enough is always going to be there. The wondering and worrying is always going to be there.You can’t “unknow” this. There may be times when things seem good, but the good doesn’t last.
It is good that he was honest with you about having an attraction to men, but it is still extremely likely he is gay. My ex and many others on here started out as “bisexual.” I struggled for about 5 years before I finally let go and filed for divorce and then got blamed by him for destroying our family. Then after just short of 25 years of marriage he married the man that was the last straw within 6 months of our divorce being final. You are still young find someone that you can be enough for and be happy. Sometimes we have to accept the things we can’t change.

General Discussion » do we have to have a MOM section? » July 26, 2018 7:50 pm

6kidslater
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Some of us through this journey and not by our choice have been in a MOM for varying amounts of time floundering around. But during that time I actually believed my marriage was special and that we were the ones who could make this work in remaining married. I was never on board with any sort of open relationship. Foolish thinking I know. I no longer believe that what we had was special or that there was any possibility of making it work. However, I had to come to this conclusion entirely on my own. I had to know that I had done everything I could while sticking to my morals to save my marriage and family I have 6 kids with him and I loved him with all my heart. We all have to live with our own choices and come to them in our own time. Also it has to be remembered that sometimes when a spouse comes out a relationship is temporary improved because the burden of the seret is removed from the gay spouse and they feel accepted by their spouse and it brings a closeness and complicates things further as this “honeymoon period” does not last and we are yet again not enough. Just my thoughts.

General Discussion » Help?!!! » July 15, 2018 2:11 pm

6kidslater
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Hi Fi, so glad that you talked to your friend and I’m sure that she was very well meaning. It really helps to talk. I think possibly what could have happened is that she was trying to look for an explanation some kind of understanding. My divorce has been final about a year and a half, my ex is now married to a man and still on hook-up sites as a “top” you can’t get much more spelled out than that and I still struggle with trying to understand and make sense of what happened. Married 24 years, 6 kids and he plays the victim. Just remember your friends explanation is not really plausible because as others have said with the pictures he’s a bottom to put it bluntly he’s not looking to to have anal, which technically he could do with you and yes might be scared of your reaction, he’s looking to receive. And interestingly my ex who lists himself as top “looking to have anal” did not look for it with me. Just specking from my own experience you can’t wait until you’ve ruled out every possible explanation for why your husband is doing these things because even in my case where I consciously know I still struggle to understand and make sense of the situation. There seems to be something about us where we want to believe in them and not give up. In some ways it’s just an incomprehensible situation for me at least.

General Discussion » Help?!!! » July 10, 2018 10:48 pm

6kidslater
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Fi, I know that you don’t want to face reality. I’ve been there. Unfortunately though once you know, and you do know, it is something you can’t “unknow” for lack of a better word. It will always be there and be with you. Even if you don’t think about it for short periods of time things will never go back to before you knew. No matter how much you want it to be some terrible misunderstanding and want the relationship you believed you had with a straight person it’s just gone. Also I don’t know your age, but you did mention being pregnant with your daughter 3 years ago, so I’m assuming you are younger these spouses do not get better with age they get worse. I can say this from my own experience and what others have posted. And I agree with Daryl he made this part of your story. Not saying you should tell anyone and everyone, but you do have a right to seek support from friends and relatives without guilt.

General Discussion » Call Me By Your Name » May 1, 2018 6:27 pm

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I just watched the link and I also watched the movie and I may be remembering it wrong, but I thought the son asked the dad “does mom know?” And he replied “I don’t think so” I actually watched the movie with my gay son who is the least close as in almost zero relationship with his gay dad. It very much downplays the wife’s experience. Was that in the movie or my imagination? It almost romatises the dad’s situation. Where my experience in reality is different. I believe my ex was jealous of the life my son chose, to live in the truth. Yet now that my ex is married to a man he is still on a hook up site with his sexual preferences listed, a picture and looking for random play, regulars etc. and he hasn’t even been married a year along with having the same problems with depression? In theory he should be happy? Apparently mine has even more issues than living in the closet.

General Discussion » Has anyone dealt with "We all knew." » September 26, 2017 9:08 pm

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I have been following this forum as a guest for about 5 years now and this is my first post. Just a quick who I am. I met my husband the summer after I graduated from high school in 89 and married 2 years later. We went on to have 6 kids in 2009 when I was pregnant with our 6th child was when I found out about TGT of course it was presented to me as bisexual at the time. And we limped along until it finally came to a physical altercation by him one night the summer of 2015 when I tried to question him about his relationship with a particular man he said he had gotten to help me around the house. I left him that night. Our divorce took a year and a half and now just recently after not even being divorced a year he has married the man. I have 6 children in a range of ages 2 still pretty young,  2 are in high school and 2 older and it just gets to me when someone says that WE All KNEW in a joking like way. Because if they really did know they sure should have said something because not saying something would have been pretty sorry. I just don't find this cute at all. This is my children's reality! Does anyone else feel this way? 

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