LGBT

I was married to a man at the time I came out. Marriage is very important to my parents, and in our faith is expected to be life long and involves asking the community to help us keep our promises to each other for that life long commitment. I had done all the proper things in our faith getting married, involving both my home meeting and my current meeting in the process. 2 years later, I came out - and ending my marriage hit them pretty hard (particularly my father). My former husband and I were in pain, but not disagreement, that the marriage needed to end. But it hit my parents (particularly my father) pretty hard.

Being gay, in and of itself, was never an issue - even for most of the more conservative members of my family.

I am now 30 years into my second marriage (to a woman), also done right through a much more rigorous faith process (we were the first same gender couple to marry - it took them 8 years to approve).