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February 12, 2025 9:29 pm  #1


feeling confused

I want to start this post off by saying I truly believe my bf is gay, but every time i try to talk about it with him, he shuts me down immediately and says I can’t “use things he’s told me against him” and makes me feel crazy.

We’ve been together 2 years. When we first started dating, I could tell he was very shy at sex. I thought maybe he was just inexperienced or nervous and I figured it would work out over time. Eventually I noticed a pattern that he could get hard and seemed like he was very into it, but he couldn’t finish and always said he had jerked off earlier before I came over. It seemed weird to me because why would you do that if you have a real person to be with? I had multiple discussions with him, that he had to be more giving in bed and tried to get him to open up to me sexually so we could have a better connection.

Well.. he did. Eventually he starts opening up to me and tells me he really wants me to peg him. I was upfront and told him I probably wouldn’t do it. But he kept going through phases of being distant and then say he’s depressed but didn’t know why. Eventually I gave in and pegged him, because he thought it might help with his confusion and he said it was better to get it from me rather than sleeping with a random man. It seemed like the obsession grew more and more. He always asks to go to gay clubs, especially if we are away from home, one time he was actually complaining to me, his GIRLFRIEND, that no men had approached him or flirted with him at the club…yet of course I was the bad guy for bringing up that it made me feel bad. He always wants to talk about big dicks while we’re having sex. He wants to watch me get gang  banged by “really big ones”. Saying things like we should get a male friend with benefits. He never respects my boundaries on these things, he is always trying to talk me into things or convince me it’s my own idea. He would always want to do “girly” things with me, or have “girls nights” and I would let him embrace his feminine side more with me.There’s so much more that happened but I’m so scared of him finding out I told someone, but I can’t just keep keeping these things in, I feel so alone.

I’ve talked to him about it so many times but he ends up making me feel so crazy and bad. I feel even worse because I feel like I’m keeping this huge secret as well. I feel stupid for even typing this out because looking back it’s so CLEAR, everything he’s been doing. I just feel bad because I truly do love him. I don’t want him to be gay. I look at him and I see someone so broken and so hurt who has to run away from themselves forever and I just tried so hard to help but I’m starting to realize I can’t. I was accepting of everything, I would always try things I didn’t truly want to so he didn’t feel like a freak for wanting it. I just wanted him to feel accepted and loved but I feel like he just refused to see it. We argue so much now, there’s so much resentment built, I’m starting to realize I can’t stay here.

He makes it so hard to break up with him. Blowing up my phone with calls and texts, coming to my house. texting friends or family, if I block him he will find another way to contact me. When he does finally get to talk to me after and argument or me trying to break up, he just goes back and forth from screaming at me, making me seem like a bad person, and then apologizing saying he loves me blah blah. He won’t accept any reason for breaking up. Of course I never say the real reason, that he is gay and that is why he treats me like shit. I’m scared to tell him this. I’m scared to break up with him and he goes back to being so lonely and nobody knowing him. I’m scared of sticking it out and staying with him and one day he wakes up and decides to leave me for a man. I’m scared that he would hurt himself and I would feel so guilty. I feel so alone and depressed in my life, like nobody knows what I’m going through. I don’t know how to cut him out of my life for good or why I even feel bad for someone who has shown me no respect or care time and time again.

 

February 12, 2025 10:26 pm  #2


Re: feeling confused

Munchkin, 

Above all, I wish for you to not feel alone.  You are in good company here.  Even though each of us has a unique story, you share so much in common with those of us here in this community. 

The word you use that jumps out at me is that you feel CRAZY.  Yes.  The vast majority of us have felt crazy, because we're being deceived by the person we're supposed to be able to trust the most.  It's easier, somehow, for us to think that we're the crazy one than to face clearly the fact that our intimate partner is gaslighting us. 

There are also a bunch of us here that understand what it's like to put the needs of our closeted gay spouse first.  The part of your post that says "I would always try things I didn't truly want so he didn't feel like a freak for wanting it.  I just wanted him to feel accepted and loved..."  really resonates.  It's easy to make a little adjustment to their needs here, and a little accommodation of their preferences there, and then only years later do we realize we've traveled way too far from having our own needs even considered, much less met. 

On a close read of your post, it seems like you already know what to do.  You don't need him to admit to being gay in order to break up with him - you aren't being treated well in this relationship.  Period.

Currently, you have a pretty impressive level of evidence and awareness regarding his sexuality.  After you've broken up and you have some distance between you, it's likely there will be even more clarity around all the stuff you've put up with. 

YOU DESERVE BETTER.  And it's not crazy to believe that.  

 

February 12, 2025 11:10 pm  #3


Re: feeling confused

Munchkin....this is typical " I like cock but I want to keep it a secret and my girlfriend has to as well " approach where he uses your r'ship, and your sexuality, to make you into somebody it doesn't sound like you're interested in being.

My former partner asked me to use a toy on him anally once. It sickened me, I refused and walked out of the room. It felt good to say "no" and great that he never asked me again. Love....or what we think is love.....makes us do weird shit we don't want to do but the connection we have with a man is a powerful thing and the only person who can break the spell is you. 
You have to decide that this is not how you want to live. Then you find the strength to do it, to leave, make a plan and do it. I know I make it sound easy. It's not. But by the sound of him, if you stay, he's going to grind you into the ground until you don't know yourself anymore. He appears selfish and mean. What would you say to a friend who was being treated like that?

Elle
 


KIA KAHA                       
 

February 15, 2025 9:03 am  #4


Re: feeling confused

Hi Munchkin,

I feel for you so much.  thanks for writing all that out, it helps me to feel for my younger self too - when I look back I think how could I have stuck it out so long, why didn't I leave him sooner and reading your post it makes me realise how hard he made it for me to leave.

The thing I eventually realised about my ex was that it wasn't the marriage that mattered to him let alone me personally, it wasn't even money, though that mattered a lot, it was his closet - he is built for a closet, he loves his closet.  So in answer to your question how to end it with him - the thing that worked for me was when he realised I was going to talk about it if I stayed around but wouldn't be there to talk about it if I wasn't.

It's like escaping through the keyhole In the closet door.  

 

 

February 19, 2025 1:57 pm  #5


Re: feeling confused

Hi Munchkin:  Let me give you a one-word piece of advice:  RUN.

He's gay, dishonest, and sounds borderline abusive.  My guess is that you aren't looking for a long-term partner like this, much less a husband.

 

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