Why Do Gay Relationships Seem to Progress Faster? 🌈

[@jimtrue1465]

When I first met the man who would be my long-term partner, he lived a 5 hour drive away (kind of like the two of you). But after a month of weekend visits and nightly phone calls, we knew each other well enough to make a committment to each other. Unfortunately, circumstances prevented us from moving in with each other for about a year, but we did indeed move in together. And we were together for 25 years, the relationship only ending due to my partner's death from cancer.

[@raja.kohinoor]

I hope youre doing better❤....may he rest in peace

[@jimtrue1465]

@@raja.kohinoor Thank you. It's been 14 years now, but I still think of him every day.

[@akiva4186]

I am a lesbian listener of yours. A while ago I read a book about building self esteem for gays/lesbians that recommended exploring the culture of the other sex' homosexuality (i.e. gay male culture if you're a lesbian, lesbian culture if you're a gay man) and i didn't get why until i found your podcast. It's like looking into a mirror that's totally different from my experience as a lesbian in some ways but also totally the same in other ways, it's kind of amazing. Thank you for making this podcast.

[@carlorizzo827]

Thanks Guys, sensitive discussion of a challenging topic. It's all a crapshoot, hunh? Tomorrow is promised to no one. I was 26 when i found myself in a funeral home planning a service for my lover who died suddenly of alcoholic accidental suicide💔That was 1979. All's fair in love. Seize the moment. Maybe i learn everything the hard way. Either we succomb, tumble into the abyss. OR. Rise above, gratefully see the beauty💙⚡️🥀💜

[@JosephMay-gp8mo]

It's doesn't matter how many years you know someone, you never really truly get to know the real person until you move in together. You spend every moment with each other. Then you learn what makes them tick. All their moods, pet peeves.

[@FindAReason-mi7go]

As i get older I remember a lot of gay relationships that my friends and acquaintances had. Most of them ended, some after weeks, one or two in the second decade. Only one couple I know are still living together, but it is a sexually open deal because I don't think that they sleep with each other. 18 months is when sexual intensity starts to decline, and then there is the 7 year itch.

[@orielwiggins2225]

Keegan's Schtick 😅. I (thought I) knew my spouse seven years before we married, and was of the severely traditional persuasion that anything close to moving in together was super wrong. And boy was I wrong and have I continued to pay the price. That was super unhealthy and detrimental marriage. Thankfully I'm out of it and don't my best to still heal from all the fallout, but if experience doesn't show you, sometimes you don't get how wise really knowing someone in all the circumstances before committing is, and travel together can be pretty stressful and the worst comes out. But I would say, you have to be in a mindset to see it all clearly, not assuming either the best of the worst, just taking it all collectively as signs of either a truly good fit or not. I know I was not yet in a place to see any red flags without excusing them and giving all the grace. Now I'm very careful. Thank you for sharing these topics. I hope I'm future each will be discussed in greater depth, either with agony aunt or guests or deeper dives on stand alone episodes as you go. Love this work.

[@raja.kohinoor]

Can yall make a video on gay mlm vs straight divorce?

[@curtmichael7589]

What does a lesbian bring on a second date? A Uhaul

[@candidolopez1131]

lol