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Support » My Biggest Fear in All of This (aka The Thing That Holds Me Back) » March 8, 2017 10:02 am

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My biggest fear is that I move forward and he makes me feel like I'm an idiot for thinking he is gay and he convinces everyone else of it as well.   Or maybe it's that I do try just one more time and end up in the same spot 5 years from now. 

Is He/She Gay » A gay ex-husband answers your questions » March 7, 2017 8:14 pm

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Sean, first thank you for all the information you have provided.   I've posted my story a couple times but I guess I just wasn't ready to deal with it yet.  I've been married 12 years and my husband and I have never had what I would consider a healthy sex life.   I tried everything, nighties, offered toys, porn.... I was willing to do whatever it took.  He always made need feel like a bit of a freak.   At its best we would have sex once every 3-4 months. Finally I settled on him being asexual.  Then I found Craigslist ads on our computer history.  M4M, T4M, W4M.... Pretty much all of them.   When I confronted him he said he was just bored and curious. Totally innocent.   Said he had been in a funk and promised to be better.   Started buying me flowers and kissing me goodbye every morning. ( just a peck though) don't think he has ever kissed me.    I stumbled onto his porn addiction then.  First it was always deep throat woman on men, but every now and then there would be a gay porn.   Then he discovered periscope.   He would watch couples, just women, and more and more just men.  I have found tranny, gay, bi....   Once I stopped pursuing sex we stopped having sex.  It's been close to 2 years now.  And it was maybe once the year before that. I've reach a point that I just can't continue to deny it any longer.   I reached out to my preacher for guidance and he believes it's just a porn addiction and that it can be overcome.    I'm going to confront him with what I know, any advice on how to approach this?.

Support » Why is it so hard to confront » November 3, 2016 3:16 pm

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I understand that Rob, but mine wants the marriage.  I think it's good cover.  He's always been about looking like the perfect couple in public.  So I think he will fight to keep it.  There will surely be a time of confrontation and I'm sure that he will play as being blindsided by it all.

Support » Why is it so hard to confront » November 3, 2016 10:51 am

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Thank you al for your advice and wisdom.  This forum has been a lifeline for me.  The last few years have been such a rollercoaster of emotions.  I look back at how things have progressed and I still can't believe that i'm here yet I don't think there is any denying it anymore.   I have made every excuse in the book.  He's asexual... that's why we only have sex every three months (that was when it was good).   Then I found the porn... oh, he has a porn addiction.  Confronted him and told him that I had stepped out on the marraige and made out with another man because I needed to feel needed.   He told me that he was just in a funk and that he was so sorry and the he would focus back in our marraige and be better.   Didn't even get mad at me for making out with another man...  He did pay more attention to me, still no sex or physical attention like that, but he would text me to see how my day was, I got lots of flowers brought home.  Would alwas kiss me goodbye.  Actually would insist on a kiss goodbye.  Let me add that he will not kiss me with tongue which could be TMI but I have notice a few people bringing that up about their ex's.  I just thought maybe I had bad breathe or something.  On the surface he was making the effort, but the porn never stopped just switched to periscope instead of internet.  Like I said it started with just woman but then I would find a man that he was following and I would think that maybe he was following him for the women he was with in the video.  Then he followed a few trannies and my alarms really started going off.   But the undeniable video, the one I can't make an excuse for was when he was interacting via messages with a man while this man was masterbating on periscope.   messages such as "squeeze it harder"   or "shoot it for us".    yeah, I can't deny that.  Now I just have to figure out how and when I confront and move on.  How I protect my two daughters through all this.   I will get there

Support » Why is it so hard to confront » November 2, 2016 8:13 am

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Been a while since I posted, but I have been reading post daily trying to get the courage up to confront my husband.   Even though I have no proof that he has actually acted on anything, I have more and more proof that the desire is there.  Started with just a gut feeling as he was never really into me.   Sex was always quick and mechanical and ALWAYS left me unsatisfied.   Then I found Craig list ads in the browser history, both W4M and M4M.  Confronted that and was told it was just boredom.  Promised he was just in a funk and that he would be better at showing me attention and making sure my needs were met.  Within weeks he was back on porn.  At first it was always videos of women performing oral on men, but I would on occasion find a gay video on the history.   Then he discovered Periscope where he could watch people live.   Again, it stared with him watching women who would strip or masturbate, then couples having sex, found a couple Trannies and more and more men(gay,bi,straight...). Following men that specifically say "for women only".   I half confronted him the other day and told him that perhaps we should go to counselling because I was tired of pretending that we were both happy when we are not.   Told him I had snooped and found a snapchat and periscope account(he has 2, one normal and one for all the porn.) and I was telling myself lots of stories.   He admitted to having both but said he didn't even know how to use them.   We were standing in the church parking lot and I was getting ready to teach Sunday School so this wasn't the most opportune time for me so I let it go.   Later that day he deleted his Periscope following and deactivated his account and has since been acting like everything is perfectly normal.  Why is it so hard to confront all this and take the next step.  Why do I feel like I am about to ruin my kids lives?   How do you get the courage to move on, to say enough is enough.   I don't think he will eve

General Discussion » Limbo woman » August 17, 2016 9:15 pm

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Thanks Still Wondering.   I am very much in Limbo land. Sadly not even so much because I want to make it work but more because I worry what if I'm wrong...   What if I uproot my kids, disappoint my family, my church, our friends and I'm wrong.   How do you find the courage to take the first step?

General Discussion » Limbo woman » August 16, 2016 6:26 pm

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Someone posted this link in the old forum and I simply can't believe how dead on it describes my life.  I'm sitting here watching my girls play soccer in disbelief that this is what my life has become...

http://www.southfloridaconnects.com/bonnie-kaye-speaks/livinng-la-vida-limbo

Is He/She Gay » Periscope » June 27, 2016 7:03 pm

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Thank you both for taking the time to reply.  I think in my head I've known for awhile but he seems to be a master at making me question myself and then to have this friend respond the way he did made me question if I'm overreacting.   He puts on a good show and everyone thinks we have the perfect marriage.  I don't know why I care so much what everyone will think when I end the marriage but I have a hard time with the thought of my family and church telling me that I didn't try hard enough or fight hard enough.  And then there are my children.  How do I explain it to them.  I don't think he will every admit it.  This just sucks

Is He/She Gay » Periscope » June 25, 2016 9:46 pm

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Been awhile since I posted.  Recently discovered my husband periscope account.  I don't know if anyone is familiar with periscope but I find it a bit confusing.  He seems to be following many women, couples, a few transvestites, and more recently straight and gay men.  All these people perform sexual acts on video's. Some charge by taking PayPal our Amazon gifts.  Others seem to do it just for fun.   I haven't found that he has spent any money but I know that he watched them often.   We have been married for 12 years and on our anniversary a couple Sunday ago he got out of bed that morning and watched a man masturbate and actively posted encouragement on the video.   This is the first time I could tell he actually watched a man's show.   And on our anniversary....   I can't come up with any reason a straight man would watch another man masturbate.  I talked to a male friend of mine and he tells me that he thinks he may be bicurious.  That maybe I should encourage him to explore this and in the next breath told me to pray the gay away.   Needless to say I left the conversation feeling very frustrated.  I've found more and more over the last couple years to make me think he is gay.  I don't know if he had known all along and acted on it or if he is just coming to terms with it but I believe he is gay.   I get confused because he spends way more time looking at women then men but he hasn't had interest in me in an long time.  This is all so hard to come to terms with and then to have someone make it seem like it's something I can fix.....  Our should live with and support.....   I'm worried about how my community and family will react when I decide this isn't something I can live with.  Any advice or in site please

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