My wife came out this month after 24 years of marriage. She has ruined my life.

My wife came out. She saw it fitting with being June and all. Her dad had recently passed away.

He was infamously homophobic, so much so that he disowned my wife's brother just for being gay.

We've been together for 24 years. We started

dating at 20 and married at 25. We're now 44 and 43. We had a family, three children from 16 to 10 now.

Their lives are about to be torn apart thanks to a divorce. As I said, we started dating when I was 19

and she was 20. I gave her my entire youth.

While my friends were out partying with other women and experiencing their early 20s,

I was in with my girlfriend.

While my friends had finally made it out of college and started working and living alone with expendable income,

I was married.

When my friends were in their late 20s and early 30s,

I was with my wife and our baby. All of this was worth it, however. I loved my wife and was

willing to give up those things to be with her. The sacrifice was worth it. She didn't, though.

What I thought was two decades of bliss was agony for her. Forcing herself to be okay with being in bed with me.

We only made love once or twice every few weeks.

I drove myself crazy trying to figure out what I was doing wrong.

It's just that she didn't want me.

I'm mad.

I'm furious with her and hateful toward her.

I get it, she was so far into this lie that

it was difficult to find a way out. However, she still lied. She lied to me for nearly a quarter of a

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