Last month I caught up with my ex for dinner. Aware that she’d recently moved in with her girlfriend, I enquired about the new flat. This is when she informed me that her girlfriend was in the process of moving out. Foot suitably wedged in mouth, I began to apologise but was quickly cut off. [...]
Glen (not his real name) decided to leave his marriage. He’d known he was gay when he married but hoped it was only a phase. Now 15 years and 3 children later he accepted his sexual orientation. His difficulty was how to tell his children and build new positive relationships with them. Many men experience [...]
My boyfriend keeps chatting to other guys on Grindr, he says it’s just fun chat, but I want him to delete the app. Am I being unreasonable? How often I have wondered if life were not simpler in the ‘good old days’ – whatever that means. Maybe days without apps, and mobile phones and long [...]
Some of you may recall that the news of my homosexuality hit my mother quite hard. So hard in fact that unbeknownst to me she went to see the doctor. She wanted to understand it; she wanted to know where she might have gone wrong. You may also recall that she was allocated the responsibility [...]
My partner keeps accusing me of criticising him. There are things that he does that I don’t like and sometimes it annoys me. But don’t I have the right to tell him when this happens? Why should he think that I’m criticising him? John Gottman, of the renowned Gottman Relationship Institute, says that certain kinds [...]
I am feeling quite depressed. My girlfriend is such a wonderful person, everyone loves her; she is brilliant and funny. She tells me that she loves me but I don’t know why – I am the exact opposite of her. I’m certainly not clever at anything and people don’t think I’m funny. I would [...]
I need help. I’m going bonkers. My boyfriend did something awful, he betrayed my trust. I had told him something a few months ago that was very private about me and he promised he wouldn’t tell anyone. And then he did – he told another guy, perhaps the one person I didn’t want to know [...]
Frazzled Fred Last weekend I got really drunk and ended up in bed with my best mate. The sex was great, but now he wants a relationship and be ‘boyfriends’ – I just want to be friends. How to keep him as a mate and not progress to boyfriends? Oh boy, If only sometimes we [...]
I’d like to say that I came up with a really clever answer when I was asked to write about what ‘living proud’ meant to me. Instead I thought of cats, specifically lions. Because lions live in prides, so they know all about living proud, right? But did you know that lions are the only [...]
The Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO) coordinates a National Gay Men’s Health Promotion Conference every two years. This year it was held in Manly, Sydney, during the last week of May. This conference will be remembered for three important resolutions. Firstly a resolution was formulated as a response to the breakdown of the partnership [...]
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