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Scenario

How to co-parent when one spouse comes out later in marriage

My wife came out as lesbian after fifteen years of marriage and we're trying to figure out how to co-parent and maintain family relationships when some people in our extended family think this is a 'choice' that's hurting our kids. We're united in protecting our children but we're navigating very different experiences of this transition and sometimes I don't know how to support her without losing myself in the process.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people must collaborate through a fundamental shift in family structure while managing both internal emotional complexity and external social pressures.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Sexual orientation as identity?”

Peri

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