Added May 12, 2011 I came out later in life yet have known I was gay my whole life. I just tried to fit into the world’s view of the way people should be it made me pretty miserable and not happy at all. I have had a few relationships but have not found the […]
Read More →I met a wonderful woman and could not be happier
on May 5, 2011in Gay & Proud, Gay Parents
Added May 12, 2011 I tried to conform to the way everyone wanted me to be. I got married right out of high school had two children and was miserable. My husband always wondered why I never wanted to make love. It didn’t feel like love. I felt like I was dying inside, no doubt […]
Read More →Plan was to make myself straight and rid myself of depression.
on May 5, 2011in Religion, Still Hiding
Added May 12, 2011 I’ve known I was different ever since I can remember. I always felt like an outcast and like I was the polar opposite of normal. When I was little I didn’t really know why I was different, I just knew I was. As I got into middle school, I realized that […]
Read More →I know now that this isn’t a sin.
on May 5, 2011in Fear of Coming Out, Religion
Added May 12, 2011 I’ve always known I was different ever since I was a little girl. I didn’t know how to express my feelings and I often found myself angry and upset. I have always been a tomboy but in junior high I actually started to have feelings for my friends and I knew […]
Read More →Married To Husband, Attracted To Women
on April 15, 2011in Therapy Corner
April 15, 2011 Q: I just came out to my husband of 17 years and we are both devastated. We’re seeking couple counseling next week. He wants me to be happy. I want to be happy. I don’t know how to label myself. I am attracted to women. Thinking about them is the only way […]
Read More →My mother told me she wished I was never born
on March 26, 2011in Bullying, Fear of Coming Out
Added March 26, 2011 I have know that I was lesbian since I was 4 years old but because I was raised in a Southern Baptist family, I knew early in my life that I would not be accepted comfortably, I remember being caught by my mother with a picture of my 2nd grade crush […]
Read More →Scared but moving forward
on March 26, 2011in Fear of Coming Out
Added March 26, 2011 At the age of almost 54 I am ready to be a gay woman. Years of hiding or even acknowledging who I was. Tried coming out 13 yrs ago but went right back in. I got hurt and figured it was easier to disappear. No relationships just hiding. I read Chely’s […]
Read More →I had no idea that I liked girls. I really had no idea.
on March 26, 2011in Still Hiding
Added March 26, 2011 I’m about the most emotionally oblivious person on the planet. So when I say I had no idea that I liked girls until I was 22, I don’t mean I was in denial; I mean I had no idea. I never went through the boy-crazy stage as a teenager but I […]
Read More →Even if I was gay I would not allow myself to be happy
on March 26, 2011in Fear of Coming Out
Added March 26, 2011 My journey of coming out did not happen till I was 40 years old. When my daughter went to college it happened with who it was suppose to happen and how it was suppose to happen. I was told from the age of 23 that people thought I was GAY. I […]
Read More →I have 6 siblings who are no longer allowed to talk with me
on March 26, 2011in Bullying, Fear of Coming Out
Added March 26, 2011 I always knew I didn’t fit in with the rest of my friends growing up though I did everything to fit in. That includes being boy crazy, dating lots of popular boys, etc. It is hard to explain, but I truly did not know other gay people existed until in college. […]
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