Man Comes Out To Wife and Kids, Strengthens Family. by Rick Clemons

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  • Опубліковано 22 сер 2024

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  • @Howiesgirl
    @Howiesgirl 4 роки тому +18

    I cried as I listened to this man tell his story. I'm a straight woman, & can only hope that I'd have the grace & compassion to deal with it if my spouse ever came to me & said he was gay. I'd want to be supportive & understanding, rather than negative & distant. I'm so glad to know that this man is living a happy, positive life. My prayers & best wishes are with him, his ex-wife, & his children.

  • @moreira7daniel
    @moreira7daniel 7 років тому +30

    Don't listen to anyone saying you should go to hell or anything like that. You did the right thing and no one is in your shoes to judge you.

  • @2024myyear
    @2024myyear 3 роки тому +10

    I'm your wife. Wow. Going through this right now with my husband.

    • @cedriceddy205
      @cedriceddy205 3 роки тому +7

      You are going to be fine trust me nothing you can do about it ..accept it and move on and dont let hate sneak in .

  • @BenShimon5731
    @BenShimon5731 7 років тому +30

    I am a gay man that is married to a woman. I never had the courage to come out when I was younger. Now that I have been married for almost 20 years, I will never come out. I love my wife with all my heart and I don't want to hurt her or humiliate her. I also have four sons, they are all teenagers and will be going to college soon. They would be devastated if I came out and destroyed our family. I made my choice to live as a heterosexual man and I rather sacrifice my sexuality than to hurt the people I love the most. If you're gay, you need to come out when you don't have a wife and kids. Especially this day and age, it's more acceptable. Once you chose to live as a heterosexual and bring lives into this world, you need to say with it. There a lot more things to life than sex. Of course it difficult for me to control my desires for men, however I have been able to control my feelings and I have never acted on them. I just have heterosexual sex and I am fine.

    • @josephinev.5776
      @josephinev.5776 6 років тому +11

      Benjamin, you have a very strong point. Too often, I hear stories about the man coming out to their wife, and then they go outside of the home and have promiscuous sex with other men. Why is that okay? If it was a heterosexual man that have an attraction to other women, one does not go out and have sex with other women that is not his wife, so it should not also be for homosexual man who is married to wife. It's like a heterosexual white man saying, I never got to be who I want to be by dating Asian/Black women, so now I'm going to open up to my wife, go behind her back and date all the women I'm really attracted to. It doesn't make sense, does it? One may not be able to control their same-sex or opposite-sex attraction, but one can make the decision to act upon them or not.

    • @DNAleguillou
      @DNAleguillou 6 років тому +7

      Benjamin Ben-Shimon you're hurting your wife. He never came out to me. I discovered it after reading a book that described him to a T so I knew at that point that the reason he never wanted to have sex with me is because he is gay. You need to come clean and tell her, because right now she's questioning herself. Is it me? Why doesn't he want to have sex with me? It's probably driving her nuts. Now knowing in my mind he's gay, even though he hasn't admitted it openly to me and probably never will admit it. At least I know it's not me and she needs to know. It's not fair for us..

    • @solemandd67
      @solemandd67 5 років тому

      Amen Benjamin! Before you make the CHOICE to father children, your life is yours and is still yours, even if you are married. Once you cross over into parenthood, your actions affect innocent people who had no choice in having you as their father.
      I don't believe you should suffer, but I do believe you should sacrifice until your children are old enough to understand. Acceptance will be up to them but that will be much easier if you and your wife have raised your sons to be open and accepting of all people, no matter their race, religion, sexuality, or economic status.
      If you have, coming out to them will only be a test of the beliefs and values you taught and reinforced through your actions to them. Therefore it will only test your teachings, not contradict them.

    • @solemandd67
      @solemandd67 5 років тому +1

      @@DNAleguillou Good Point!

    • @paolagrando5079
      @paolagrando5079 4 роки тому +3

      I know more than one person who come out to their spouse and kids, for some it was harder than for others. But most of them understood and now they are civil with one another for the sake of the kids too. I would like to be with somebody who is not that into me, because he is gay or because he is not in love anymore with me. I would rather know and decide for myself. I'm for honesty and communication.

  • @minombre5555
    @minombre5555 10 місяців тому +4

    I am gay, and I always feel sorry for the women in these situations. The closeted gay guys are always meant to look like they are heroes for coming out and being their true selves, even later in life…..and this after destroying the life of a woman who never dreamed she married a huge liar.

  • @gregdivincenzo6410
    @gregdivincenzo6410 Рік тому +4

    Thanks for sharing. I recently came out to everyone and feel so much better cause of it

  • @8Namaste
    @8Namaste 3 роки тому +6

    How sad that we just can't be who we were meant to be from the get-go!

  • @magdalenawilliams1692
    @magdalenawilliams1692 5 років тому +4

    Wow! I'm glad you see your kids. Sounds like a very difficult situation. Good Luck!

  • @timw4383
    @timw4383 5 років тому +2

    What kept me alive was my depression.
    I mourned my mother for 10 years, and was not able to function socially.
    While my friends were out having sex and getting HIV/AIDS, I was at home on the couch crying over my mom.
    When I came back out we al knew by then how to protect ourselves.

  • @justpatti1
    @justpatti1 8 років тому +13

    If he's telling the truth about the relationship he now has with his family, then kudos to his wife and children. He does deserve credit for having the courage to (finally) tell the truth. That said, he chose to lie to those who loved and trusted him most. There IS no justification. He made the choice to lie and to cheat. A cheat is a cheat is a cheat. The orientation doesn't matter. While it's truly in the best interest of everyone for them to now move to a different kind of relationship based upon the truth, it in no way mitigates the damage he CHOSE to do. As the former wife of a gay man, with 3 adult children, I can tell you from out experience that it is decidedly more about the actions than the rhetoric. Not all gay men choose to marry. Those who do, then CHOOSE to cheat, not only risk the lives of their wives with their reckless and dangerous behavior, but are an insult to gay men who had the strength of character to NOT involve an unsuspecting wife. The blame for much of this deception...THE CLOSET...falls squarely upon the shoulders of fundamentalist religions. The most recent "policy" issued by the LDS/Mormon Church only further shoves LGBT young people into the closet and down the aisle; sacrificing innocent brides and grooms at their altars. I would caution that behavior post-disclosure is critical. If Mr. Clemons continues to behave with integrity, then there is great hope for his family and his example is important to others. If, however, he chooses to behave in ways that far too many newly-out gay fathers choose to behave, the relationship(s) will become more collateral damage. It would be tremendously helpful to hear from Mrs. Clemons. Her experience and her perspective may be quite different. All that said, Mr. Clemons CHOSE to lie, CHOSE to cheat....and he will experience absolutely no consequences at all....yet his wife and children are left with all the questions.

    • @Fatherwasahamster
      @Fatherwasahamster 8 років тому +4

      Yes. "A cheat is a cheat is a cheat. The orientation doesn't matter."

    • @DNAleguillou
      @DNAleguillou 6 років тому +1

      Karma will bite you in the butt. Best be honest and come out

    • @Robert-vf6ny
      @Robert-vf6ny 11 місяців тому

      Sorry, but I'm ACTUALLY gay. Your husband was bi. I never involved myself with women at all. I tried it once. Not for me.

  • @haggaigertz
    @haggaigertz 6 років тому +12

    Rick is now a coach and has published his new book "Frankly my Dear: I'm Gay" I highly recommend you to read it.

  • @Eltoca21
    @Eltoca21 11 років тому +3

    Thanks for sharing

  • @mrmvpvip
    @mrmvpvip 7 років тому +18

    He is a selfish man, period. You can't blame the society every time a gay man does something bad. Did the society force him into a straight relationship? Maybe yes. Did the society force him to cheat on his wife and dodge the responsibility of rasing two kids? NO. I can tell that when his wife was pregnant, he was already scared to be bound by this relationship and had been plotting that "great escape" with a man. He waited for two kids to do it. I commend his courage to speak up but the fact that he said he was surprised that his wife was more angry at him cheating on her than he was gay shows that he thought it was ok to cheat on his wife since he's gay. He's never loved his wife. He didn't even think that he was a cheating husband but simply a gay man with some "straight business" to deal with.

  • @manuelatwood637
    @manuelatwood637 8 років тому +26

    Let's have your wife do a video and ask her how she really feels. I'm glad you could meet a guy and in 4 hours feel good about things. All about me, me , me-you and Toby Keith should do a song together

    • @KptnHaddock_
      @KptnHaddock_ 7 років тому +3

      What the hell are you talking about

    • @DNAleguillou
      @DNAleguillou 6 років тому +5

      He's hurting his wife by not telling her. Trust me!

    • @imthinkingmaybe2615
      @imthinkingmaybe2615 5 років тому +12

      @@DNAleguillou No he hurt his wife when he married her under false pretenses. He is relieved and happy , she is hurt, confused and feels betrayed.

    • @vintageappliguy
      @vintageappliguy 4 роки тому +2

      @@imthinkingmaybe2615 If is wife is confused and feels so betrayed how come they are still good friends? Would you please stop flapping your gums about things you have no business talking about. I asked it before and I'll ask it again...WHO THE HELL ARE YOU TO BE JUDGING ANYBODY?

    • @vintageappliguy
      @vintageappliguy 4 роки тому +1

      @@DNAleguillou So I take it you are a perfect person without sin? Seeing as it is a good bet that you are NOT, what right do you have to be judging Rick or anyone else like that?

  • @SJwasMADEin1987
    @SJwasMADEin1987 7 років тому +9

    Respect to this man for sharing his very personal story to help others.

  • @dinspringstead6636
    @dinspringstead6636 Рік тому

    REMEMBER.....we don't have to anyone about it. I never have and I. Really happy!!!!!

  • @amanasro
    @amanasro 6 років тому +11

    He is a coward to have dragged his wife and children into his deception!!! He knew he was GAY when he got with that Woman!! I could NEVER forgive my self if I had done what he did. I am a GAY male from the deep South, and I was pressured to get into heterosexual sexual relationship. Thank God I stayed honest and TRUE to my self, and didn't destroy any Woman in the process. I am now a OUT proud 52 year old Gay Male that has been in a wonderful relationship with a Man for almost 15 years. I am so glad that I didn't give in to that deception.

    • @2degucitas
      @2degucitas 5 років тому +1

      Proud of your strength to resist other's opinions about how you should live.

    • @Robert-vf6ny
      @Robert-vf6ny 11 місяців тому

      Neither you nor the video OP is "gay". Yourenoth bisexual. Being that you're effeminate, has nothing to do with being "gay". I'm REALLY gay, not into sex with women, and I'm MASCULINE, not an effeminate bisexual like you are.

  • @jabbadahuttful
    @jabbadahuttful 3 роки тому +3

    What about the lovely British guy ? Are they together? I like happy endings 😁

  • @michaelremillard2215
    @michaelremillard2215 3 роки тому +2

    Your a " late bloomer " I have a friend who pretty much
    have the same experience. He and his wife are now the best of friends ! Enjoy everything life has to offer you now.

  • @marta9127
    @marta9127 11 місяців тому

    9 months. 3,5 years. And you were 38. That means you decided to have children when you were in you thirties. You were 34! An adult and a responsible man, not a confused teen... 🤦🏻‍♀️ or so would you think...

    • @Robert-vf6ny
      @Robert-vf6ny 11 місяців тому

      He's bi, I don't care what he says.

  • @louisdewit4429
    @louisdewit4429 Рік тому +1

    9 Years too late but i wonder how he ‘came out’ at 19 and then what happened ? He went back into the closet ? He says it was meant to be. NO. Without discrimination he would never have been in any closet anyway and his wife could have married out of total love and not must platonic love. I’m 65 from a provincial town in the Netherlands. I just left that town and family when i was 19. Came out, in London at 21. That was in 1978. Why is it so difficult for others ? Perhaps some miss the sense for adventure and get out of a world that does not suit them. I don’t know. Always wonder about this.
    I do like this bloke though. Wonder now what 5:13 happened with him and the UK bloke ? Who probably watched this. Much later. Hmmm 🤔

    • @Robert-vf6ny
      @Robert-vf6ny 11 місяців тому

      Exactly. These men are bisexual not homosexual. I never had the choice to "marry and have 6 children".

  • @daveId42
    @daveId42 11 років тому +14

    My wife and kids love me even more now that I am open about my attraction to younger women too. Yay, the sun is brighter and I don't have to sneak around any more! They were never really that important anyway. What is good for me is what is most important. Screw my wifes new trust issues, just do what feels good. Marriage is a joke.
    Cheating is cheating and being gay is no excuse for special treatment in that department if you want to be treated equally. talk to your spouse first.

  • @sandyhowell8833
    @sandyhowell8833 7 років тому +1

    Did this guy do a video on that artists site? Looks exactly like the dude!!

  • @williamwhitney9666
    @williamwhitney9666 5 років тому +3

    I understand how you feel I knew before I was married. I needed to prove to my dad who I really wasn’t. Now I find myself depressed and am ready to kill myself because I cannot be myself and in that I would rather be dead then tell my wife

    • @tonyburgessful
      @tonyburgessful 4 роки тому

      @William Whitney "You're still married".

  • @curtisfranks1882
    @curtisfranks1882 3 роки тому +1

    Such a lovely person. and yes handsome.😉 He sounds like he is a great father to those beautiful children if his and that, of course is the most important possible thing one can be . A loving clear, genuine, and ever present loving father. Children will become whatever and whoever they are meant to be with the right loving parents and others family and otherwise in their lives. I would love some day to be a parent or foster parent even. It such a wonderful experience to be a par of . I have a lot of love to give.

  • @ronsmith2241
    @ronsmith2241 Рік тому +1

    I understand it well. I was married to my very accepting wife for 51 years. She had MS for 26 years and I was her carer before she passed recently. I am now finally free to be who I am. Not looking for a husband. That is OK.

  • @bojongkia123
    @bojongkia123 10 років тому +5

    Beautiful and honest!

  • @bootsguy5155
    @bootsguy5155 Рік тому

    What happened after he came out to his wife and kids? Did he found a loving man to be his partner without leaving his family or get separated?

  • @zorayaseeram2703
    @zorayaseeram2703 8 років тому +16

    I think being gay/lesbian doesnt give you any right to waste a straight person's time where they could of had true love with a anothet straight person. Yea u faced misery trying to hide but u dragged someone's heart into the ground being selfish and coward. I would never be okay if someone did this to me. I would feel worthless, dumb, used, and wondering what i ever did to deserve this. I would wanna kill myself or go into deep depression. Some women wasted 40+ yrs on a man who couldnt just be responsible and stay single if ur not sure and u wanna sort out yourself. The lying and disregard to wasting someone's time energry emotions on you not that you are gay/lesbian. Low life kinda decisions to do someone that.

    • @BenShimon5731
      @BenShimon5731 7 років тому +3

      Zoraya Seeram I don't think he did it to hurt his wife. Don't you understand stay that gay men do it because our society taught us that being gay is disgusting, immoral, ridiculous, evil and so on. Gay men have also historically been killed. It is scary to come out of the closet especially if you have no support. Do judge others when you have never experienced it your self because you have no clue how this is for gay men.

    • @zorayaseeram2703
      @zorayaseeram2703 7 років тому +2

      Of course cause some men don't see how their actions hurt others. He is lucky, i wouldnt alienate my children from a man who did that to me. But i just wouldnt look at him. Its 40 yrs not 4 yrs.

    • @zorayaseeram2703
      @zorayaseeram2703 7 років тому

      Ur opinion me of means 0%

    • @zorayaseeram2703
      @zorayaseeram2703 7 років тому

      Ooooo someone looks really emotional.

    • @zorayaseeram2703
      @zorayaseeram2703 7 років тому

      Surrrreeee.

  • @BiggMomma84
    @BiggMomma84 6 років тому +1

    Thanks for sharing your story

  • @michaelbeattie6874
    @michaelbeattie6874 5 років тому +3

    Don't listen to other people judging you.

  • @littlekiwi9724
    @littlekiwi9724 7 років тому +12

    What are you straights doing watching "I'm from driftwood" videos? Go criticize videos about straights getting divorced!

    • @paolagrando5079
      @paolagrando5079 4 роки тому +2

      Hello, not all straight are here to criticize. I hope more and more people try to see the big picture and take responsability in their words, in their actions, because they have consequences. Keeping the finger pointed won't help to have less of these situations. Being homosexual ( or bi, or trans, etc.) isn't thant easy for a lot of people. There still to many families, societies that stigmatize them. If more of us would be more understanding and supportive there will be less and less people feeling like they shouldn't be themselves.

    • @debbiepowers4743
      @debbiepowers4743 3 роки тому

      It’s a free country, last time I checked.

    • @Robert-vf6ny
      @Robert-vf6ny 11 місяців тому

      These people are not gay at all, they are bi and liars.

  • @omarkhalid901
    @omarkhalid901 6 років тому +1

    ((it was happening because this is meant to happen))
    love it

  • @motherhoodsbeauty9279
    @motherhoodsbeauty9279 9 років тому +15

    His life is a mess

  • @MrClintL
    @MrClintL 5 років тому +3

    What?? Getting married and having kids doesn't make you straight??

    • @cucublueberry8078
      @cucublueberry8078 4 роки тому +3

      Nothing "makes" u straight, when u aren't....

    • @Robert-vf6ny
      @Robert-vf6ny 11 місяців тому

      He's bisexual. "gay" is just bull.

  • @bracken1000
    @bracken1000 6 років тому +2

    I'm interested to know why Rick felt compelled to identify as gay. Even if he had a brief relationship with a guy, it doesn't mean he should have to identify as gay. Be happy, accept whatever you do...but there's no need to label yourself. In any case, Rick is a good dad. I sometimes wonder if the negative reaction of women to the idea of their husbands having same-sex feelings might create this need to identify.

    • @AxelFoley0
      @AxelFoley0 3 роки тому +1

      If he went out is because he realy did not see himself Like a heterosexual man, he could say he was bisexual but he didnt it

    • @bibleburner
      @bibleburner 2 роки тому

      Maybe because he IS gay?

    • @Robert-vf6ny
      @Robert-vf6ny 11 місяців тому

      He's bi. Period.

  • @lorimendoza4721
    @lorimendoza4721 6 років тому +2

    C'mon man

  • @ryanriechman7246
    @ryanriechman7246 9 років тому +2

    This is beautiful. I love it when people come out of the chains to freedom!

  • @Gaggyboy8
    @Gaggyboy8 2 роки тому

    Firstly I speak as a straight man soon to be married for the fourth time, so please forgive me if I sound one dimensional. I knew from the age of 11 years old that I was attracted to women and if for an ‘hypothesis’ and to reverse roles and a gay man or woman would come out as being straight? And to forget sexuality I cannot lie to myself about anything for example if I’ve been lazy I know I’ve been lazy if I’ve had one too many drinks I know I’ve had one too many drinks, I’m even a fussy straight man also known as ‘shallow’ unless I find a woman really truly stunningly beautiful (not in looks necessarily, but size and demeanour (such a petite and feminine) then I’m not attracted to them. I cannot understand how a person (regardless of their sexuality) can get too what probably is effectively half way through their life without fully acknowledging it? But then again I do speak as a straight man and I accept that maybe considered a narrow minded opinion

  • @stroop3666
    @stroop3666 3 роки тому +3

    When my coworker found out her husband was gay, it TOTALLY destroyed her and their family.

  • @bracken1000
    @bracken1000 6 років тому +4

    Why does society try to force men into gay or straight categories? Let men be.
    Gay-identifying men can change over time. I knew a guy who was only interested in men for about 5 years and then he evolved to be attracted to women. It wasn't due to religion but to a natural evolution in his sexuality. The reverse is also possible - ie a man can evolve from being attracted to women to being attracted to men.

    • @AxelFoley0
      @AxelFoley0 3 роки тому +3

      The bisexuality exist

    • @africanbantushaman9351
      @africanbantushaman9351 3 роки тому +2

      @@AxelFoley0
      Exactly! Bisexuality does exist. I wish more homosexual and heterosexual people would accept that reality.

    • @bibleburner
      @bibleburner 2 роки тому

      Gay men exist, you cannot change your sexual orientation that's some horseshit.

  • @ryanriechman7246
    @ryanriechman7246 9 років тому +3

    10 Biggots Hate Love.

  • @kayleetoms6591
    @kayleetoms6591 Рік тому

    3:05 That’s because homosexuality is not a choice, but cheating *is*

  • @michaelciccone2194
    @michaelciccone2194 3 роки тому

    Ok , what about your marriage vows?

  • @Ivcexx
    @Ivcexx 3 місяці тому

    Man that was tough to listen to ❤️‍🩹

  • @patrikstar8466
    @patrikstar8466 Місяць тому

    DISGUSTING