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Straight. Celibate by situation.
*Ultimately, infidelity is about betrayal of trust IMO. Everyone involved is 'hurt' to some extent, some appear and probably are hurt infinitely more than others. Straight, gay, bi..we all (most all anyway) dip into the same ocean of emotions as part of our human legacy.
Discovering this great site and being introduced to the wonderful world of scent has been more than a new hobby for me, it has been and is...therapy.

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I'm straight all the way and narrow minded!
.... and I like Aphex Twin.

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Originally Posted by greyhueofdoubt Well, in Re: the latter half of this discussion, perhaps a little fairness is in order.
No one has brought up the possibility of a woman cheating on a man with another woman. I don't know if there's a movie out there that deals with this subject; if there was, I'll bet it wouldn't garner nearly the amount of attention won by Brokeback.
It happened to me. It was devastating. Cheating is cheating, regardless of gender or orientation. It's not funny, and it's not somehow 'sexy' to imagine my partner sleeping with another woman behind my back. You'll lose those high school fantasies pretty quick if the situation happens to you, too.
There is no reason for this discussion to center on men cheating, closeted men cheating, cuckolded wives, etc without taking into account the very real and very common inverse- i.e., women cheating.
I go to the bar once a month, and a very, very large portion of the women I see schmoozing with strange guys are married (and often with children). I have heard terrible stories from men I work with who have discovered their wives' affairs (often in terrible ways).
This sword cuts both ways, people. Cheating is bad, period. The fallout from a closeted spouse having an affair is no different from the 'traditional' way of cheating. And I refute the assertion that if a woman's husband turns out to be gay, then their entire relationship was meaningless. That is patently false. Surely the gay members here on BN can attest to many satisfying (platonic or otherwise) relationships with the opposite sex. Many of my female friends are lesbians, and our friendships are no less close and meaningful. I speak with the authority of someone raised by two lesbians and their entire network of friends, many of whom were also lesbian/gay.
Cheers-
-ben Thanks for sharing and for pointing this out. So often men's pain and men's feelings are overlooked, ignored, or even belittled - often by men themselves. It's as if our emotional lives just aren't supposed to count, and we have all internalized that to some degree. We are the disposable sex after all. (To prove my point, how many of you had a little voice in your head that just registered "oh boo-hoo-hoo?" Would you have thought the same if someone was addressing women's feelings?) I think this is changing for younger generations, but for most of my life, feelings and emotions have been all but off-limits for men, and not to good result.
But back to your story...Something very similar to this happened to a good friend of mine a while ago. While you would think it would be easier to deal with than having his girlfriend leave for another man, it really wasn't, at least not for him. You're right, the sword cuts both ways, and it has to be painful.

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I'm straight as a pretzel and crooked as a laser beam. In real life? I'm hetero. In the minds of other people who see my obvious and foward sexual attraction, and my "walk of shame" from a girl's room, gay. Figure that one out. "It doesn't matter what you do, it's what you look like that defines who you will be." Couldn't be more true in my situation.
- Rich

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Straight.
I have had gay friends that were wonderful, neat people.
And their parties are the best.
Dave

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Straight, but not narrow...