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Glass Houses

Around age seven, a friend of my mother’s moved in with us. By eleven, I had discovered that my mother was gay and that this friend was actually her lover. My mother had been unwilling to just take off with me without seeing if she could get the marriage to work. In the meantime though, she was sleeping with this woman inside our house. I woke up many a night in search of my mother to discover that she was not in bed with my father, but in bed with this woman who was supposed to be my ‘aunt.’
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Telling the Children

There’s no easy way to tell children about separation, divorce, or any change in the family. And regardless of whether a mixed orientation couple decides to stay married or separate, there’s no easy way to tell a child that a parent is homosexual. Continue reading

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