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How gay men can identify and overcome the self-defeating and often hidden hurdles that sabotage their efforts to find a long-term partner. Gay and Can't Find a Partner? Learn how gay men can overcome the hurdles and find Mr.
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Right. Making Marriage Work Take our Relationship Satisfaction Test Find a marriage therapist near me. OK, so, you’re gay, and you want to find a partner and eventually a husband, someone with whom to share your life. However, you just can’t seem to meet the right guy or make the right connection. You keep coming up empty-handed, stymied in your efforts, no matter what you try. All of this talk of legalized marriage just seems to make things worse, adding pressure from friends, family, and even yourself. You think that maybe it’s just not possible for gay men to have long-term relationships. There must be some truth to the old joke: “What does a gay man bring on a second date?” Response: “What second date?” You would be ready to throw in the towel, if it weren’t for your best friend who met someone and is now in a happy relationship for the past two years—or that middle-aged couple who live in your building and who just celebrated 25 years together with a trip to Paris. So you end up wondering, “What’s the matter with me? What am I doing wrong?” As an openly gay man with over 30 years of experience as a therapist, I have seen scores of single gay men sabotage their efforts to find a partner, placing obstacles in their own path—without having the slightest idea as to what they are doing and why. Fortunately, I have also learned how to identify and name these self-defeating and often hidden hurdles—and have discovered that they are beliefs that too many gay men repeat to themselves, often without even knowing it. They are as follows: “The real truth is, I am unlovable.” In my experience, this internalized belief is the poison that prevents some gay men from building a healthy relationship, and also why many mess up the ones they already have. There’s a reason for this. Few of us grow up unscathed by family, peers, and a society hostile to our attractions and behaviors. Some of us have been bullied as children, physically, verbally, and emotionally abused at tender ages by our peers and family members for being gay before we even recognized and understood our same-sex attractions. This toxic internalized belief is further ingrained if we have been treated harshly (or abandoned) by our fathers, the first men in our lives to teach us about our value in the eyes of other males. Sadly, these wounds are difficult to heal, and as a result, can leave gay men with the sense that we are unlovable and thus unworthy of love, affection, and happiness. In my clinical and personal experiences, these feelings can be so deeply hidden as to be difficult to recognize, articulate and resolve. My clients rarely initially state or even recognize that they feel unworthy of love, but their behaviors tell a different story. One telltale sign is obsessive jealousy. Once in a relationship, you may feel a constant need to control the other partner to make sure he stays connected and faithful to you. In addition, you seek never-ending reassurance (checking his cell phone, needing to know where he is at all times, demanding he tells you he loves you all of the time—you get the idea). What belies these feelings and behaviors is the fear that you are is so flawed that you cannot attract and keep a partner without monitoring and controlling him—even though these behaviors ironically push him away. Another way feeling unlovable manifests is in the choice of partner. Read on. It is impossible to meet the right guy." No doubt, finding the right partner is not easy. Remember, you are looking for a life mate, that glass slipper is hardly one-size-fits-all, and very few men will qualify. For sure, so much of the gay male world is way too focused on looks, youth, the gym, partying, and fast hookups, so searching for Mr. Right is like looking for a needle in a gaystack.
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