Chapter 176

“Don’t you think understanding how women feel might explain her reaction to you? She and Jay are close, and she is a girl, in your life. It’s a relationship if not a romantic one.”

“I hadn’t thought. I suppose…” Now she mentioned it…”I guess it might clarify how others see me. How the…the women I’ve been with may view me.”

“Now you’ve come out?”

He nodded.

“Some may feel the same way female partners in relationships feel. Most women still love their man. They hurt. They feel betrayed. Many may never accept the reasons the man didn’t come out with the truth sooner. The woman focuses too much on herself, on what has happened to her to consider why this was difficult to do. Understandable, but it doesn’t help to save the relationship, if the woman wants to save it. Many worry over whether the man is gay. Many struggle to believe or at least understand bisexuality.”