What's it like being married to a gay man?

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🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Margaret Steward was surprised one Sunday morning when her husband of 30 years came out to her as gay. In this episode, Margaret and her husband Travis talk about what that experience was like and how they feel about their future. Charlie and Ben also share experiences of when they tried to date girls.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Questions from the Closet.
0:05.0	I'm Ben Shalati and I'm Charlie Bird.
0:10.0	Each episode we discuss a question that we commonly get asked as LGBTQ Latter-day Saints.
0:14.8	We're not trying to answer this question or come to a consensus, but simply sharing our perspectives.
0:19.1	Today's question is, what's it like being married to a gay man?
0:22.4	And of course this is from the perspective of a straight woman. is
0:23.0	from the perspective of a straight woman.
0:25.0	It's true.
0:26.0	Because being married to a gay man is different if you're also a gay man.
0:28.0	True.
0:30.0	Charlie and I are not terribly diverse
0:32.0	and we share many opinions in life experiences.
0:34.4	For example, we both regularly get pretty roasted online and comments sections.
0:38.4	It's true.
0:39.4	However, there are some pretty big differences.
0:40.9	For example, Ben always responds kindly with thoughtful, well-crafted
0:45.3	messages and I just can't engage with the haters because it'll just go downhill really fast.
0:51.2	First of all, you're being very kind, but if someone reads my blog post and hates it,
0:55.0	they read my blog post and that's like a kind thing that they did.
0:57.5	I usually just text my brother and I'm like, hey, you want to take care of this because I'll get too mad.
1:01.5	And then he starts taking care of it. I like whoa whoa I should have done this.
1:06.2	Also you too keep laughing we haven't introduced to that but appreciate that you like the jokes.
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