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AsI think back on the past 24 years of providing couples counseling for gay male relationships, I sometimes get asked what the differences are that I see (in general) in gay male relationships that are (again, in general), different from straight relationships.
I offer these thoughts to both single and coupled gay men, based on my perspective of what I’ve seen through the years. My experiences and observations as a gay men’s specialist psychotherapist might differ from other gay men, and even other gay male therapists, and we always have to be mindful of not indulging in unfair assumptions, stereotypes, or even prejudices. But since making a relationship perform (which I define, in part, as the relationship’s level of satisfaction for each partner and in its overall longevity and subjective “quality” for each partner) is at least in part based on a skills-building process, skills that I believe are required for a gay male relationship to both endure (quantity) and thrive (quality). These are the issues that come up repeatedly in couples counseling sessions:
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Male relationships can race into challenges from the start, because two men coexisting as men don’t have a lot of historical role models. Functional out how to be together isn’t intuitive. Some men have internalized homophobic images of masculinity, and have had to be hyper-masculine in order to get by. Others aren’t comfortable with any expressions of perceived femininity in themselves…or in their partners, because of how they see these traits reflecting back on them.
If you’re like most gay men, you probably grew up feeling somehow “different.” Because you grew up feeling disenfranchised and/or flawed, you may have completely disowned the masculine power inside yourself, and encountering it in a partner can be disconcerting.
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Most gay couples aren’t exactly surrounded by helpful community resources. The communities in which you live and perform may not know the nuances of gay couples’ lives. It’s also probable that you’ve been attentive in terms of the breadth and depth of the information you’ve shared with y