After more than 30 years in the "BI closet" together, I wanted to come out, breath, and live life
without hidding, keeping separate apartments, taking "different" vacations that were actually
taken "together", keeping track of the lies and the deceptions that were done constantly to keep
others from discovering the secret that we were partners. I just wanted to be myself for a
changem without worrying about what others thought, or if they would find out. He was happy
with the status quo, and so saw no reason to change our arrangements and refused to change.
Even after years of promising me that he would someday be comfortable enough to consider
changing.
I finally gave up and said goodbye. I am not angry with him...he just did not have the desire to
do things differently. We are still best friends. It was a difficult thing for me to do, but I bit the
bullet and did it. I still only have one leg and foot out of the closet...a big step even for me, but
I can smell the freedom, so I am sure it will take place eventually.
I am now in a new relationship with a man much younger than I. He never went through all the
restrictions, taboos, and shame that that former partner and I experienced in our past.
He is willing to to be patient and to help me through this change....we will work it out together.