A mother-of-two has shared the moment her husband of 18 years told her that he was gay and how it almost broke her.
Serena Morton thought that she was having the perfect marriage until her husband, David, wanted her to meet his new lover and the world seemed to just fall apart.
“David said, ‘This is Carlos,’ and I knew it must be one of his boyfriends. So I said: ‘Oh, he’s nice, isn’t he?’ and David laughed,” she recalled.
Serena, 57, and David, 60, have two children together. But their 18-year marriage ended after he told her that he was gay and revealed that he couldn’t continue living a lie.
“My whole world exploded when David told me he no longer wanted to be with me, and wanted to date men,” she said.
“I honestly didn’t know how I was going to go on living without him and yet, unlike when a husband goes off with another woman, I knew I couldn’t possibly compete.”
She said that because she wasn’t a man, she had lost the fight hands out as her husband made it clear that the only thing that would make him happy was being with men.
Serena lost weight and barely slept for months after the revelation. She hated David and hated the gay community.
“I remember a friend being appalled by some of the things I was saying. She said: ‘Serena, this is not like you!’ But I was hurting so much. David was the love of my life — yet now I realized I could never be the love of his,” she went on.
Their children George, 20, and Abbey, 21, were doing their best to cheer her up but they also had some adjusting to do.
“I missed David so much that I wasn’t functioning properly,” Serena said. “I had to take time off work because I was having panic attacks that kept me awake all night, and my friends and family were worried about how much weight I’d lost. A bit of me hoped he’d see me and decide he wanted to be with me again after all.”
Despite what happened, the two have eventually become best friends.
When Serena went through another rough time, she realized there was only one shoulder she wanted to lean on.
“I called David because only he would understand how I was feeling,” she expressed. “I had a good cry and David was really comforting.”
“If we’d known how things would turn out we probably wouldn’t have gone ahead with it,” she went on. “But I only have to look at our children to know that would have been a great shame.
“I wouldn’t be without them and, strange though it may sound, I feel honored that David chose to have them with me.”
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