The Bert Show.

We're going to fire up the voice disguiser for this.

We're going to call her Mary.

Good morning, Mary.

Good morning.

How are you today?

I am.

I'm good.

Yeah.

It doesn't sound good.

You're a little stressed out.

She's got plenty of reason to be stressed for sure.

What's going on, Mary?

Well, like you said, I'm a mother and I'm married, and I'm gay.

And it just comes to the point to where I can't ignore it anymore.

Okay.

All right, we're skipping over a couple of steps here.

So you've been married for roughly how many years?

About almost four years. Four years. And did you have these feelings before you got married?

I did. I've had them probably for a while since I was about 12 or 13. But it was just,

back then, just the thing of, you know, in a small town, and it was just not just ignored them. You know, I just pushed them to the side and just thought that would go away. Melissa can certainly understand that. Oh, yeah. I mean, absolutely. I think that it is, you know, when you first, and I'm the same way, when you first feel it, you're like,

oh, God, no, oh, God, no, please know, please no, because, I mean, you know that you're going to, it's not accepted. So, especially a small town. Exactly. I mean, I had a picture walking, like, scarletters with a big ale on my shirt, you know, walking through. Your life would be completely different and you would be ostracized if you tell people how you felt back, you know, when you're that young.

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