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When late-life self-discovery threatens your established relationships

I have been married for twenty-eight years and I recently realized I might be gay and I do not know how to honor this truth without destroying the life we have built together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Authentic self-knowledge can emerge at life stages when acting on it feels impossibly costly to everyone involved.

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