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Gay Man Overcomes Self-Hatred and Learns to Love Himself.

2018

He learned as a young boy that being feminine or different was not okay, which planted a seed of self-hatred. Only as an adult—and with the help of therapy—was Hawmi able to overcome his internalized homophobia and live a happy and free life.

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The Lesbian Love Companion: How to Survive Everything From Heartthrob to Heartbreak

In The Lesbian Love Companion, Marny Hall, Ph.D., a psychotherapist with twenty years’ experience counseling lesbian couples, explores and celebrates lesbian relationships in all their complexity—and humor.

Book
Marny Hall
1998
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The Queer Art of Divorce

Composer Ethan Philbrick and novelist Torrey Peters discuss what it means to make art and community after a marriage ends.

Article
Haley Mlotek
2021
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I was Married with 2 Kids When I Realized I’m Gay

By the time you reach your 30s, you think you know yourself—your likes, your dislikes, what inspires you, what makes you tick. But there I was, at 36 years old, realizing I didn't know myself at all.

Article
Melissa Raney
2019
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Gay Breakups Are Better, and Here’s Why

The LGBTQ community is known for its emphasis on tolerance, but one of our progressive dating phenomena is particularly worth praising and sharing. It’s quite common to become friends with exes.

Article
Jill Gutowitz
2018
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Celebrating My (Gay) Divorce

Marriage equality means divorce equality—and I feel pride, as well as sadness, about my split from my husband.

Article
Steven Petrow
2019
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Loving in the Grown Zone: A No-Nonsense Guide to Making Healthy Decisions in the Quest for Loving, Romantic Relationships of Honor, Esteem, and Respect

Too many people have surrendered to the belief that dissatisfaction, neglect, infidelity, abuse, disrespect, conflict, exploitation and betrayal are natural, normal, and unavoidable characteristics of romantic relationships and even marriage.

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Zara D. Green, Alfred A. Edmond Jr.
2014
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The Peculiar Mechanics of Gay Divorce

For gay couples, the promise of marriage is still so new and incomplete that the idea of matrimonial courts, equitable settlements, and all the rest barely registers. How do you process the undoing of a bond that until a moment ago in history you were not allowed to form?

Article
Jesse Green
2013
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How Withholding Can Lead to Divorce

Withholding, what is it? Well it is a defined as an emotionally abusive behavior or tactic, a form of denying, refusing to communicate or do something for your partner as a punishment.

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Tiffany Beverlin
2017
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Handling the Unique Stressors of Divorce in the LGBT Community

A divorce experts weighs in on handling the specific stressors, bias, and a legacy that will take time to change.

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Storey Jones
2019
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The Highly Sensitive Person in Love: Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You

Do you fall in love hard, but fear intimacy? Are you sick of being told that you are “too sensitive”? Do you struggle to respect a less-sensitive partner? Or have you given up on love, afraid of being too sensitive or shy to endure its wounds? Statistics show that 50 percent of what determines...

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Elaine N. Aron
2001
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