WOW Yossarian! You hit the nail on the head. And yes, it did "make sense at the time", as the alternative was unthinkable to me. So...
Not much you can do. See my picture (the real me). Accept what you cannot control. You can spend lots of money on Rogaine and other treatments,...
Read Joe Kort's book. No one can tell you if you are gay except yourself, but you don't have to have sex to know. What was a real wake up...
This place is full of compassionate people, but even so you may feel stung a bit by our responses. We understand, we have been there, and...
Marrying and "making things work" will work for a while, but not forever. I am 53, married almost 22 years with two teenage boys. I survived the...
Beachbum, My partial coming out last year did lift a weight from my shoulders (for a few weeks), but then I got stuck with family issues and I...
ISFP: Potential blind spots for ISFPs • If ISFPs have not developed their Feeling preference, they may not take the time to go inside and...
Beachbum, Since you are in the Houston area, there is a fantastic resource available at "fathers first of Houston". This is a support group...
Hang in there. It sounds as if you have written my experiences of the last year too. My Therapist and I are discussing how too much...
It has been over a year for me, and not nearly as many posts as you:dry: I also am not along the path as far as I would like. I am still...
Yesterday my wife and I met at our therapists for my disclosure as my wife wanted to know about what I had “done” as a gay man during our...
Straight Traits: -Currently married, with wife, teen age kids and the proverbial white picket fence -Handy around the house...electrical,...
Confused MWM, Welcome and warm hugs. Uncanny clarity and acceptance. I cried when I read this as it is as though you had written about my life....
1) I was around 25--but I didn't want to be and struggled until I was 29, when I met my wife (and for a few years I was able to convince myself I...
AIDS was the one BIG reason that I couldn't accept facing who I was in the '80's. I went completely into the closet and locked the door. Over...
This is a good book. I bought it for my wife (and myself) to help her feel less alone in this. The shock of discovering your spouse is not who...
Germanion, You sound so much like me 21 years ago when I married my wife. I knew I could beat the gay. 21 Years later the gay has beaten me....
Thanks for all the feedback. I have really come to the terms that I want to spend more time with people like me, and I can't do that in my...
I think is the coming out to my kids that really worries me. My eldest probably will not have an issue with it, but my youngest @ 16 may well. I...
Thanks lostman and Lex, My heart is really torn, but in the end I think it tells me it is time to move on beyond my marriage. That is probably...