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January 24, 2025 6:15 pm  #1


Five years after disclosure…

Five years later (the five year anniversary is this week) and we are doing great. So many other things in life have rose to the forefront over the years. For the first 2-3 years the subject was discussed with some frequency. These last few years, not so much. We are just busy living life.

I hope you are all well.

Tangled

 

January 28, 2025 2:56 pm  #2


Re: Five years after disclosure…

Hi Tangled,
Your earlier posts gave me hope, when I found myself on this forum just over a year ago. I wasn't on Facebook, where I later found other groups, so reading this forum was the only window into MOMs. A very sad window overall, but seeing even one positive example was very encouraging.
My husband and I are happily together and I'm so happy I stuck with him. Thank you!!!

 

January 29, 2025 11:22 am  #3


Re: Five years after disclosure…

Hi Tangled,
I'm glad you're doing so well! I do understand, once you worked things out, it moves to the background. 

For us it's often because we are somewhat active in support for others in a MOM, we discuss the subject of sexual orientation regulary. But that's in another mode so to speak.

However, for us it's important to acknowledge the mixed orientation aspect of our relation too (in balance with what we are overall).
Afterall, effectively we're just an regular husband-wife couple, which is logical of course and no harm in that. But for my wife that could sometimes feel like her sexual orientation is put in a corner collecting dust. Unintentionaly it could become and feel like a subject and aspect that's invisible. That's not what we intended, we intentionally chose and went for acceptance of ourself and eachother. Rainbow flags or painting her hair blue won't do, that's not us and it's not about group statements. On the contrary, we are persons, we choose eachother.

For us it can be in other, less obvious, things to communicate this. Like my wife telling me she finds a woman attractive. It's not threatening to me, we're way beyond that, and it's also absolutely certain she won't act on those litle flings in any way. But it's an expression of her sexual orientation she shares privately with me.
Sometimes I don't get that, blunt as I (typical man) can be, I don't understand well enough that this is important to her. I could easily discard it like: "well, I often see a woman I think attractive too". But no, it's important I give it attention, a sort of acknowledgement of her sexual orientation, simply because that's part of who she is. But not to dwell on it further makeing it bigger than it ought to, after all it's nothing threatening, nor is it putting me down being her husband. But I think these small things prevent silence could feel like avoiding the subject.

It could well be in your situation this is less important than MOMs where the gay is more on the other side of the spectrum?

 

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