HUSBAND My 40Year Marriage to a Gay Man edition by JoAnne Blackwelder Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
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When Steve proposed to JoAnne, he swore she was the love of his life, and, surprised, she married him. Certainly he was a talented writer, and together they delighted in being witty and wild in New York City. Life the the Big Apple brought two daughters, great jobs, a successful screenplay, and a Brooklyn brownstone. But Steve had dark secrets, and JoAnne would discover that her husband was not only a great lover and devoted father, but his demons could bring hom the underworld, terrifying all three of his girls. And yet they continued to love him.
HUSBAND My 40Year Marriage to a Gay Man edition by JoAnne Blackwelder Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
Husband: My 40 Year Marriage to a Gay Man-- written by JoAnne Blackwelder, presents a startling and candid portrait of her marriage, that unfolds like a novel. Educated at the University of Wisconsin, where she and her husband Steve were both pursuing PhD’s; her story also highlights the cultural revolutionary times of the 1960’s-1970’s: radical social changes, including the political upheaval of the Vietnam war.JoAnne was seriously dating another man when she became interested in Steve Myron. He was fun, open-minded and non-judgmental. He pursued her steadily, proposing marriage, convincing her that their relationship and/or potential marriage would be better if it were open. The couple married in 1968, and dropped out of college without earning their PhD’s due to social unrest and lack of safety on campus surrounding the Vietnam War protests. Steve experimented with affairs, another woman coldly informed her that Steve had been seeing her and many others. The “orgy” they had participated in together, had been a failure. It had been forced and awkward, her heart wasn’t in it—yet this didn’t stop Steve from pushing for open sexual experimentation.
After the couple settled in Brooklyn, NY they purchased and began restoring an old Brownstone that needed a great deal of work/repair. Steve had a great job, until he quit and decided to write full-time. Joanne supported the family (by then they had two daughters). Steve continued his affairs with women and men. Towards the end of the marriage, Steve was drinking heavily and engaging in risky sexual behaviors he could no longer hide from his family. This was in the 1980’s-1990’s when there was extreme publicity and often hysteria surrounding the rise of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
During her marriage, JoAnne seemed to have lost her voice, perhaps she had been worn out by working to support the family, as she tried to hold her marriage together. There was little known about gay men married to straight women at the time, and her story is very informative and interesting. While we know a great deal more about LGBT relationships today, it is very difficult to detect a closeted spouse if they do not want the true nature of their sexual preference known. Kudo’s to the author for sharing her true story with others.
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HUSBAND My 40Year Marriage to a Gay Man edition by JoAnne Blackwelder Health Fitness Dieting eBooks Reviews
Well written, but too heavy on the author's claim of being victimized and trapped when a divorce was a choice that required the unpleasant sacrifice of selling the house, splitting the proceeds and living apart. Neither she nor her husband were honest with themselves or each other.
My friend (and baby boomer contemporary) JoAnne Blackwelder recently published a wonderful book-length memoir chronicling her 40 year marriage to a man she gradually came to recognize was gay. It's a fast-paced book that unfolds JoAnne's unconventional marital journey -- one that spanned the decades from the '60s up through only a few years ago. A love story, with a difference - a fascinating, mind-expanding, inspiring tale.
From start to finish I was drawn into this couples story. As a woman of similar age from the suburbs near NYC, it was fascinating to see how this young couple dealt with their marriage and remained together for 40 years...through good times and difficult and challenging ones. Definitely a page turner!
An honest, intimate and courageous look into a relationship fraught with conflict and love. A free-spirit man and woman become lovers and devoted parents only to confront inner anguish when one is torn between a traditional home and the rough trade of gay life in New York city. This book is a real page turner!
I found this carefully crafted book disturbing, for all the reasons you might expect. The view of two such dissimilar personalities, struggling with increasingly intertwined lives, gave me new insight into just how difficult hard choices can be.
Though hard to read, it is well worth it and actually is a page turner that will kept me reading late into the night.
While I may have wished for a different resolution for those people, I appreciated the courage it took to write it.
This book gives an eye-opening account of marriage between a heterosexual woman and a gay man. It's best to keep in mind while reading this book that this took place in a time when people didn't come out and let everyone know they were gay. There were many couples that tried to stay married and keep up the facade of marriage. When reading this book, you can feel the anguish and confusion in the wife's mind. There is no doubt that these two loved each other and tried so hard to make things work. But nature had its own ideas. The story is compelling and heartbreaking with a tragic ending. Well written and easy to read.
I wrote a film, the last of Robin Williams' career, "Boulevard," that touched upon a similar subject as in Joanne Blackwelder's fine book. As I tried to show in my film, the complicated relationship of a gay man married to a straight woman is more common than many realize, especially among gay men of another generation. What distinguishes Blackwelder’s unsparing, hard-hitting, deeply moving book is that it’s a great love story. Blackwelder beautifully modulates insight, rage, humor and a capacity to love in spite of everything, all interspersed with the bold and revealing chapters of her husband's diary, kept secret until after his death. This is an extraordinary book.”
Husband My 40 Year Marriage to a Gay Man-- written by JoAnne Blackwelder, presents a startling and candid portrait of her marriage, that unfolds like a novel. Educated at the University of Wisconsin, where she and her husband Steve were both pursuing PhD’s; her story also highlights the cultural revolutionary times of the 1960’s-1970’s radical social changes, including the political upheaval of the Vietnam war.
JoAnne was seriously dating another man when she became interested in Steve Myron. He was fun, open-minded and non-judgmental. He pursued her steadily, proposing marriage, convincing her that their relationship and/or potential marriage would be better if it were open. The couple married in 1968, and dropped out of college without earning their PhD’s due to social unrest and lack of safety on campus surrounding the Vietnam War protests. Steve experimented with affairs, another woman coldly informed her that Steve had been seeing her and many others. The “orgy” they had participated in together, had been a failure. It had been forced and awkward, her heart wasn’t in it—yet this didn’t stop Steve from pushing for open sexual experimentation.
After the couple settled in Brooklyn, NY they purchased and began restoring an old Brownstone that needed a great deal of work/repair. Steve had a great job, until he quit and decided to write full-time. Joanne supported the family (by then they had two daughters). Steve continued his affairs with women and men. Towards the end of the marriage, Steve was drinking heavily and engaging in risky sexual behaviors he could no longer hide from his family. This was in the 1980’s-1990’s when there was extreme publicity and often hysteria surrounding the rise of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
During her marriage, JoAnne seemed to have lost her voice, perhaps she had been worn out by working to support the family, as she tried to hold her marriage together. There was little known about gay men married to straight women at the time, and her story is very informative and interesting. While we know a great deal more about LGBT relationships today, it is very difficult to detect a closeted spouse if they do not want the true nature of their sexual preference known. Kudo’s to the author for sharing her true story with others.
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