What Happens When Dad Wants to Be With Other Dads
We don’t know any group keeping statistics on how many married husbands and dads, or wives and mothers, come out in middle age, well into their marriages. But they’re doing it! In droves, apparently!
This 60 Minutes (Australia) segment finds some willing couples — well, gay couples and the ex-spouses — to tell their stories.
But really, who cares about the now happy gay dads? You’re all so passe now! Yeah yeah, you married a woman ’cause you thought that’s what you were supposed to do, but now everyone’s so progressive and you want to be happy and open, so you’re tearing up your family. J/K! But we care about the spurned wives (like these gals) and the kids who deal with the fallout of a broken marriage, and coming to terms with their daddy enjoying … other daddies.
It seems a little weird to think sexuality would be totally stagnant. I mean, are your sexual and emotional needs the same today as they were 10 years ago?
lol i love it.
handedness is ‘stagnant’ – except for southpaws who were forced to write right-handed, and as adults allow themselves to be true to their real handedness, ‘handedness’ is innate and immutable, and like sexual orientation, has been reported in a wide variety of other living organisms.
Perfect pitch is another trait that, barring illness or accident, doesn’t change over time – one either has it, or not. And while most people do have at least a rudimentary sense of pitch, and can, with work, improve that, they do not, cannot acquire perfect pitch. And there are people with no discernible ability to differentiate between one note and another, and no amount of training of any kind creates any improvement.
There are many innate abilities that individual people possess that cannot be acquired to the same degree through practice, study, hard work, psychotherapy, magic, or medication.
@Fitz: Deliberately surpressing my sexuality was the most difficult thing that I have ever done. It is so much easier to live day to day now that I am out.
I’m still trying to work out what my emotional and sexual needs are now. The only thing I know for sure, is that my needs were never met while married to a woman.
But, like evey other LGBT person I’ve met, I’m much happier already just for coming out.
Being true to yourself is the only healthy way to live.