Is my partner gay

Relationship Problems

I recently found a text message on my partner's phone that made it obvious he'd been having a sexual relationship with another person. I confronted him and he denied it so I rang the number on his phone. I explained who I was and asked if she was having sex with my boyfriend. She admitted they'd been meeting and had had intercourse once, then she dropped the bomb shell that she was transexual. He had met her through a TV/TS Chat room and the relationship had developed from there. Initially there were a lot of tears and my boyfriend offered to move out. However, I know I love him and said we could work things out. It's now been 3 weeks since I found out and things aren't getting easier for me to accept. As I said, I love him but am I enough for him if he's interested in transexuals? Will he stop these desires or merely surpress them. He insists that he's not gay or bisexual but merely that life had lost its spark and he'd wanted to do something forbidden.
I am unable to talk to family and friends because of the nature of his infidelity.

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Not Gay

He is not gay or bi-sexual, just got interested in something tantalizing and exciting, exactly as he told you.
However, he has been unfaithful both by using chat rooms and by having intercourse with somebody else. You are reacting normally to those events, by not getting over it, by questioning your own adequacy and by needing to understand and talk about it.
This is not about you not being enough. he just wanted to have a buzz, not realising the damage it would cause to you and the relationship. The relationship may have had things in it that were unsatisfactory, or he may have felt in a rut. These matters can be talked about and dealt with between you. The worst thing is that trust has been broken and will take a long time to be restored.
You can't work it out in 3 weeks or even 3 months. This takes time and patience, and seeing a couple therapist who is familiar with these situations would be a great help. You can find somebody at "Find a Therapist". or at www.basrt.org.uk.

Healing

Many thanks for your comments. Basically you're telling me what I already knew but it's good hearing it from someone else.
The strangest thing for me is the various stages I'm going through. The initial shock, the then relief that we weren't going to part and that we would try and working things out, then the doubt and questioning, the search for the truth of what actually happened and worry, would it happen again once things calmed down.
I'm going to share this posting with my partner and as suggested seek out a therapist who can hopefully help us both heal. Thanks once again.