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We’re Getting Noticed!
There is a whole new awareness of families like ours today, and we are happy to offer help, support, advice, and friendship to men and women who find that they have married or become sexually involved with an LGBT person. Real support at an unreal time is truly what we are about. Continue reading
Unseen Unheard
The straight spouse experience has been told in compelling detail in the new book Unseen Unheard: the Journey of Straight Spouses by Amity Pierce Buxton and R. L. Pinely Continue reading
The Smart Divorce and Straight Spouses
We’d like to thank Deborah Moskovitch, author of The Smart Divorce, for her recent article in Huffington Post about straight spouses and healing. Continue reading
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Happy Birthday Amity Buxton!
On the occasion of her birthday, we’d like to share a video of our Founder, Amity Buxton, with you. She talks about her first marriage to a gay man and the devastating consequences to him and to the entire family. The Straight Spouse Network was founded on the principle that no one need go through this experience alone.
Amity Buxton on BlogTalkRadio
We’d like to thank Tracy Lawanda for her excellent interview of Amity Buxton on her blog Aword4U. The interview was featured on BlogtalkRadio. Amity appears approximately 10 minutes into the show. This is a Christian show, and Tracy asked a lot of great questions of Amity. Much of the discussion centers around truth in marriage. Continue reading
Holiday Reading about Straight Spouses – Moving Forward
During the holiday season, we often have time to read and reflect – or we make time to do this. Here are a few selections which are of interest to straight spouses and those who wish to offer support to us and our families. Whether your are looking for information, affirmation, or coping strategies in your reading material, you likely will find it among this assortment of books currently sold at Amazon.com Continue reading
Straight Spouses and Their Families: A Morality Tale
It’s time to go back to the beginning, I think, to clarify why straight spouses need to be heard in the current conversations about social justice swirling around us. It is not because they are overlooked, which they are. Rather, straight spouses want desperately to share their wide lens on what happens to their families when their husbands or wives come out. Every family member — they, their gay or lesbian partners, and their children — is hurt by antigay sentiments and action, such as constitutional amendments and laws that limit legal marriage to that of a man and women. Continue reading
Sex, Love, and Prop 8 – Where is the Christian Ministry for Straight Spouses?
With all the attention focused California’s on proposition 8, defining marriage as only between a man and a woman, many churches are unaware of the existence of straight spouses. If they were aware of us, a portion of the focus, energy and money allotted for the defense of marriage might be allotted for resources to help straight spouses and our families deal with profound moral and spiritual dilemmas. Resources such as counseling, spiritual healing, renewal, focus on keeping us connected to the communities of faith rather than shunning us, ignoring us until we leave, or responding to our questions and concerns with lectures on that particular denomination’s teachings about our partner’s homosexuality, rather than providing pastoral ministry that addresses our needs. Continue reading
Podcast of Amity Buxton, Founder of Straight Spouse Network
Many straight spouses find Amity Buxton’s book The Other Side of the Closet, when they first begin their journey of discovery/disclosure. Amity is the founder of the Straight Spouse network. To hear a podcast of Amity’s discussion the process of … Continue reading