Effective therapeutic self-help techniques for a straight mate’s recovery One of the most traumatic events that can happen in a marriage is discovering your mate is gay. When Your Spouse Comes Out: A Straight Mate’s Recovery Manual is a comprehensive exploration of the trauma that provides practical steps that successful individuals have taken to keep this event from ruining their future. This guide offers solid therapeutic techniques for self-help and presents poignant true stories that illustrate that the damage is not irreparable. The book examines the various reactions to the coming-out event, the personal challenges and obstacles often experienced, and shares lessons learned and some of the secrets of transformation. When this crisis hits home, isolation, depression, anger, grief, and self-recrimination take root. When Your Spouse Comes Out: A Straight Mate’s Recovery Manual presents role models, analysis, practices, and activities promoting long-term emotional recovery for heterosexual men and women whose intimate partners are gay. The text includes integrated exercises helpful for class work and student discussion and case studies of people who recount their stories and explain their recovery. Topics in When Your Spouse Comes Out: A Straight Mate’s Recovery Manual include: 
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<li>different straight spouse responses to the coming out event </li>
<li>diverse ways gay mates approach coming out </li>
<li>typical stages of coping by straight spouses </li>
<li>health risks </li>
<li>how to tell the children </li>
<li>helping children with the resulting challenges </li>
<li>paths toward healing </li>
<li>recreating family </li>
<li>and more </li>
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 When Your Spouse Comes Out: A Straight Mate’s Recovery Manual offers a self-directed path to recovery which can be used individually or in the context of a support group. This guide is invaluable for straight spouses working alone or in groups, therapists, counselors, group facilitators, librarians, families of gays/lesbians, and their mates.

When Your Spouse Comes Out: A Straight Mate's Recovery Manual (Haworth Series in Glbt Family Studies)

Grever, Carol

Bowman, Deborah

Parenting & Relationships

The Haworth Press

When Your Spouse Comes Out (Glbt Family Studies)

Unexpected pivotal events change the course of a lifetime. This book grew from that thesis, sharing stories of specific, transformative “turnings” that shaped an unusual life. Carol Grever is known for her books, blog, and documentary about mixed-orientation relationships and straight-spouse recovery. Now, she reveals with unwavering honesty her own unforeseen history, including extraordinary adventures, heartening discoveries, and spiritual conversion. Whether encountering a gay mate’s coming out, a spouse’s addiction, or her own spiritual awakening, these stories and poems form a mosaic of courage.

Turnings: Reflections on a Conscious Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

“These women demonstrate the will to survive intact . . . Their passage to wholeness exemplifies forgiveness, growth, healing, hope, and sometimes reconciliation.”—from MY HUSBAND IS GAY Carol and Jim were high school sweethearts who married in their early twenties. Thirty years and two children later, Jim announced to his wife that he was homosexual. A fundamentalist Christian, he had been leading a double life for years. In an effort to sort out her pain and confusion, Carol Grever sought out other heterosexual women, of all ages, ethnicities, and educational backgrounds, who were married to gay men. The stories she uncovered examine their coping strategies and form the basis of this manual for healing.

My Husband Is Gay: A Woman's Guide to Surviving the Crisis

Self-Help

Relationships

Crossing Press

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