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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]You mean bisexual[/b]. And maybe he wanted to stay married and have that American dream. [/quote]

You don't know that. [/quote]

Unless OP was conceived by artificial insemination, I do know that.
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Not OP but gay men getting married to women was extremely common for the Silent Generation.  [b]Most had absolutely no other choice[/b].[/quote]

They had the choice of staying single. The women that were duped into marrying them had no choice. [/quote]

I'm one of the women who is a daughter of a gay father who has posted here. My mother was not "duped" into marrying my father.  She knew my father had had relationships with men.  It was common in their rather "Boho" circle in the late 1950s for people to try out homosexuality, along with things like psychoanalysis, careers in art, and other Beatnik era stuff.  My mother went through her own period of 1950s style experimentalism too, including being hospitalized for "schizophrenia" (I don't think so) but again you need to read up on the times.  So this isn't a matter of a young woman being duped by some sly, predatory homosexual.  These were two young people, 23 and 25, who were equally interested in each other.  Like so much of life, it's a complex situation, not some trope out of the Gift of Fear where one person is the victim and the other is the horrible predator.  Please try to be a bit more sensitive.[/quote]

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