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how did you come out to your husband

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Helen
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Helen

married 18 years. i'm 46. i've known for about two of those years and suspected for a lot more. he coaches our son's saturday soccer. the house is in both names. i have a friend with a guest room if the week goes badly. i'm not in danger. i'm stuck on the sentence.

when to come out to your husband

his mom's birthday is Thursday. i'm not doing it this week. i'm also not doing it in a restaurant where he has to keep his face polite. if you told yours while you still lived together, what day did you pick, and what did you clear off the calendar first.

what to say if you still care about him

i do still care about him. that's the part i keep tripping on. people talk like the only honest version is "i don't love you." i love him. i'm not in love with him, and i haven't been, and there is a woman i think about in the parking lot of the grocery store. i need wording that doesn't turn him into a fool.

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  • nina.b

    nina.b

    Sunday. kids at my sister's. i said it in the kitchen because that's where we talk about money anyway. he cried, then asked about the mortgage before he asked about the woman. have the month of bills in your head. he will go there.

  • sage_tea

    sage_tea

    if you are even a little unsure you can leave, don't do it at home. you said you're not in danger. good. still pick a night you can go to that guest room without a speech about why you're packing a bag.

  • Fran

    Fran

    i wrote a letter. he read it on his lunch break. don't do the letter. he had a whole shift to build a version of me i then had to undo. say it when you can both be in the room.

  • Helen

    Helen

    kitchen, kids elsewhere, no letter, not his mom's birthday week. i can work with that. the mortgage folder is already on the table because i'm like this.

  • Willa

    Willa

    "i love you and i'm not in love with you" is what i said. he hated it. it was still the true sentence. the woman in the parking lot can wait until he has the first sentence.

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