Gay man married to woman

On the surface he was a happily married man, but he was also using gay pornography. It didn't feel like a choice in the past, it felt like it was enforced on me. He'd always felt uncertain about his sexual orientation and this troubled him more and more as he got older.

He'd get drunk with a gay friend and, he says, "events took their course". While the couple have stayed together, they no longer have a physical relationship and sleep separately. I'm now making that choice that I would like to, in a sense, remain celibate.

Nick acknowledges it would have been better for her if he had admitted sooner that he was gay and needed to act upon it. She told him she was disappointed that he hadn't been able to trust her enough to be honest with her, and that if she had known she would have accepted it.

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He is also gay. But even with increased tolerance now some choose to take the same path. Nick is a member of a support group called Gay Married Men, based in Manchester and founded 10 years ago. Decades ago when gay people faced ostracism and the threat of prosecution in the UK and other Western nations, many chose to marry and disguise their sexuality.

Nick isn't his real name - many of the couple's friends and family don't know he's gay and he wants to remain anonymous to protect his wife. We ended up getting married because I had, with all my relationships with males in San Francisco, sort of fallen short.

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Men travel from around the country to attend meetings. The couple chose to stay together not for the sake of children - they don't have any - but because of their feelings for each other. Nick has promised his wife that he will never again have sex or a relationship with a man - he says he owes it to her.

She's my best friend really above all else, so we've decided we would like to remain together as best friends," he says. His wife was angry and upset when she found out about six years ago, and Nick knew there was no point denying the truth any longer.

But can he stick to that promise? Todd Howard was gay, out, and lived in San Francisco. He then married a woman. He thinks his wife had suspicions about his sexuality for years, but things came to a head when he had an affair with a man. He says: "I'm hoping so, it's my intention to.

Nick, who is in his 50s, has been married to his wife for 30 years.

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Group founder John says most of the men are older - they married women in the s and 80s when society was more hostile to gay people. Like many men in his situation, Nick, a nurse, found himself living a double life. And what was confirmed in me, having had that relationship and bond with a woman, was not I was in fact very much torn against myself with regard with what my true desires were, and that was to.

Now society is more tolerant, they are more comfortable with coming out as gay.