A married man divorces his wife because
“something is missing” in their marriage. She is surprised that he is unhappy and heartbroken that their marriage is over. It is only later than she learns he is gay (or maybe bisexual?) and has married a gay man. This is the beginning of my novel-in-progress.
Does this situation seem improbable? It isn’t. Whether we are unconcerned with the sexual preference of others, are proponents of gay marriage, or believe that homosexuality is a “disease” that can be “cured,” all of us know someone who is gay or lesbian and some of us have friends whose spouses have left a marriage to take up with a person of the same sex. For the spouses left behind, it is often a terrible shock. Some may feel that they failed as a partner; others wonder how they could have been oblivious of their mate’s sexual preference.
Can sexual preference change over time and why? One answer to this is that the partner who said “Bye bye” and turned to a same-sex mate is “Bi”sexual. Some research and mainstream articles on the subject assert that bisexuality does not exist; there are equally convincing arguments that bisexuality exists but is overlooked and misunderstood. For purposes of my fictional marriage, it doesn’t matter because the novel explores love between couples. I expect that now that Oregon’s Kate Brown is the first openly bisexual governor in US history, there will be a wider public discussion on the subject.
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