Wife has a former lesbian

Share this article Share Of course, I can't speak for another woman, but I do arrive at this story with baggage - of a very personal nature. For 12 years, between the ages of 22 and 34, I was in several long-term lesbian relationships. From until I lived in lesbian households, drank in lesbian pubs, went on gay rights marches and viewed my long-term future as being exclusively with women. In fact, I was convinced that - having made what seemed at the time as a very certain leap into lesbianism - I would never again have cause to go out with a man. Youthful look: Jackie Clune with her first girlfriend Gwen Of course, that's not how I saw my life panning out when I was a child. I was brought up in Essex by very traditional Irish Catholic parents and attended a Catholic comprehensive school.

Every item on this page was chosen by a Woman's Day editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Maybe I was fluid? Either way, I was too busy living to worry about a label. Jul 7, Courtesy of Kate Evans Before I met and married my husband, I was with my ex for 15 years, but only married for 6 months.

If you were married to a man, and then over time realized you may be attracted to women, how would you navigate this? Obviously, there is no easy answer. There are many feelings, people, sometimes children, and a household to consider and in one instant- everything could change. And for my friend Nadia, it did. Her life was turned upside down as she did the previously unthinkable, and opened up to her ex husband after realizing that she was attracted to women.