gay husband

[carolemac]

do you know of any support groups for wives of gay husbands

[woofgang]

If you live in the UK, your local CAB or social services might know of one, if you want to be anonymous, you could try calling the samaritans to see if they have any info

[katejess]

Carolemac, I'm sorry that I don't know of any support groups that can help with this, but I do want you to know that you are not alone. My father is an "in the closet" gay man. That may sound rather glib, but I know this to be true as over the years there have been too many clues/signs/items left around for him to be anything else. As a family we have all confronted him and asked him outright whether he is gay or not, but he will never give us a straight answer. Consequently, he is a very bitter man who drowns his sorrows with the contents of the gin bottle. At times, he has made life for me and the rest of my family unbearable. For the last 31 years he has treated my Mother like a slave. And Mum, being the person she is has put up with it.....that was her choice, I know I would have made a different one. He has never been the most attentive father, but over the last few years the relationship between my father and us (I have two brothers) has almost completely collapsed. But throughout his poor treatment of others, we have never offered anything other than support and yet he has knocked it back in our faces. I wish that he would simply admit that he is gay......then we all might be able to start living our lives.

[hazeleyes]

The Straight Spouse Network (http://www.ssnetwk.org/) has several support groups - for straights who are staying with their spouse and for those who are not. Take care and good luck.

[gilda]

Straight Spouse Support Network is an above-board US organisation that supports the straight spouses (both men and women) and has a UK branch. ANother person gave you a link to their website. Also there is a group which uses a Yahoo website called "Alternate Path" that is for women married to gay men who want to stay together. see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alternatepath/ Ther
e are many other groups internationally. I suggest you look at the us websites for PFLAG (parents and friends of lesbian and gays) and COLAGE (children of lesbiuans and gays); aslo the UK version of PFLAG is FFLAG. These will give you links to other support groups fpr wives of gay men.