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FALLING IN LOVE WITH A MARRIED GUY - A VERY COMPLICATED SITUATION
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I’m 31 years old, I was born and raised in Italy but I lived abroad for many years. I have always been "different" from others, grown up between adults and with a keen interest in being with adults. I figured out that I was gay during high school but the acceptance phase was long and hard. I started declaring myself 5-6 years ago with my female best friend and with my male best friend. I told my parents everything last December, but they had already guessed it. I'm proud of how my dad took it, the person I was most afraid of. Being told by my father that now I would have been even more appreciated, made me feel good. 
 
In more than 31 years I only had a "story" with a guy, 5 years ago. The thing was over after two months for the distance and perhaps because he, just out of a relationship, was not ready to start a new one with me. I had been in love with him, I felt destroyed but then, slowly, I reconstructed a group of friends. I met guys / men, I attended people to understand if and how I liked them. But apart from the infatuations, I have never met a person who, in addition to reciprocating certain feelings, was also compatible with me.
 
Until August of last year, when after two and a half years of peace of mind, a guy writes to me on Planet Romeo. He was a few years younger than me, intriguing, we began to chat, cuddling each other. It has to be noted that, despite I said I was not looking for sex, he continued to write: a true rarity. 4 days later we go on Whatsapp and the same day he tells me that he was married. I still remember the scene: I was in a coffee break, I felt stunned.
 
I asked him what he was doing in a chat like Planet Romeo and if his wife knew. Of course his wife was totally unaware. He apologized, he thought he had already told me it the first night we had chatted, and tells me that he understands that I don’t want to meet him anymore. But voice inside me told me to meet him. I wanted to understand, only understand. We continue to write to each other nonstop, I from my office (empty for summer holidays), he from his workplace. The next day we decide to see each other spontaneously and I invite him to have a coffee at my house. The moment he enters my house and extends his hand to introduce himself, I feel a lump in my throat and my stomach closes. Beyond the fact that already in the picture I had understood that he was my type, seeing him live was love at first sight.
 
The strange thing is that I, generally very nervous, after not even 2 minutes, was calm and happy with him on the balcony drinking coffee as if we were friends of a lifetime. I felt so comfortable, as if we had always known each other.
 
Because of the heat, we move into the living room, in the cool, and we keep talking. He tells me about him, born and raised abroad, in this country for a couple of years and married for just over two years with a girl from here known in his country years before. He tells me that he has problems with his wife (too little sex in his opinion) and that he has many doubts, that he doesn’t feel integrated, that his linguistic knowledge is not enough to work in his field, blablabla. He asks me about me, I tell my story. We never stop talking a second ... we have so many things to say ... everything is so natural ... and an hour later he tries to kiss me, I reject him and say that I have to reflect on what I'm doing. He understands and does not insist.
 
He tells me that at the time of the university he had thoughts for the guys, but he never tried (perhaps for fear, or I don’t know what for) and that these thoughts never ceased, that he masturbates while watching gay porn and feels guilty ... and tells me that, when he got married, he promised to abandon and repress this side of his life because of which he feels guilty. A few months before meeting me, however, he cannot take it anymore and decides to meet a man with whom to have sex. He says that before he met me he had met three men in all and he had sex with them, cheating on his wife. He says that sex with men is exciting but at the same time it disgusts him, and he reiterates how the feelings of guilt are destroying him ... he loves his wife, he wouldn’t want to betray her ... but he needs guys, although he continues to repeat that sex with men doesn’t convince him. And I tell him that, perhaps, this is due to his non-acceptance. Strange situation, I think ... then he says he is 80% happy and tells many other things. We say goodbye, I accompany him to the door and he goes home. 
 
No more than 10 minutes after, climbed on the train, he writes to me: “where have you been for all my life? I have eternally been looking for someone like you.” In the following days we continue to write so ... uninterruptedly ... in the evening we say goodnight and good morning in the morning. Crazy things. He writes to me that he would like to see me again ... and, please, don’t ask me why, I accept.
 
4 days later we meet again at my house, we talk, drink coffee, we kiss and start cuddling (not sex). We also spend 4-5 hours, after my work, talking, cooking together, having dinner, etc. I repeat, crazy things. When the train is about move, from the train itself he writes to me that I am his ideal man, he wonders how I can be single and above all he tells me that 4-5 years before he would have had no doubts about me, but that at that time he was 100% hetero and shy.
 
And he asks me if, in a future life, he can have a chance to be together with me. I’m clearly upset ... you can imagine the emotions of hear such things from the person you spontaneously like better ... Even if then he tells me that, unfortunately, in this constellation someone would have suffered (his wife). The story goes on ... or better starts ... we meet every time we can, I go to work, he changes the shifts to be with me at my house ... we go together to the cinema ... go walking in the evening ... his wife, unaware of everything, works until late. On Saturdays, very often, he has to work ... so we get to see each other 4-5 times a week and we often spend Saturday nights together, either by him at work or at my house ... After work we walk together towards the station ... and then it happens that one evening he takes me by hand and in the station he kisses me. The first time I kiss a man in public. And he, married, keeps on going hand in hand with me with the risk of being seen by someone.
 
My family has always made me feel loved, but the sensations I start feeling are special ... this feeling light ... desired, etc. ... Two weeks later we end up in bed ... and there we understand that the harmony is total. I sincerely hoped that he would turn out to be a landslide in bed. At least I would have had a reason to close ... to forget him ... All the story really scared me. We go on ... in September I have two weeks of vacation ... he insists to take me to the airport ... and a week later he comes to pick me up and spends his Saturday with me. Obviously he had told his wife a lot of fake stories. He feels uncomfortable because he had lied and also because he is fine with me. 
 
That Saturday he tells me that in the previous week, while I was at a sea site, he thought that maybe he can live without me ... but anyway he was always with me. Even during the second week of vacation, while I was at my house, we keep on hearing and calling each other. And then he writes to me that he misses me, etc. ... I come back home ... the story goes on. He asks me if I'm in love, I do not answer him. But he understands. He says it's not right for me, that I deserve a man who is 100% available, not one with problems like him. But we are in touch every day ... messages ... he often comes for lunch in the neighborhood where I work ... even just to spend an hour with me ... and to shake my hand under the table, at the restaurant.
 
Speaking of his wife, he says that he loves her but that sex with her is not enough ... that they do it once a week if all goes well. He says he has talked to her and that she only needs no more that. He often cries when we see each other. When we make love he's in seventh heaven ... we talk, we laugh ... there's total involvement. He says that with me it's something else, not just for the performance but for the harmony, for what you feel ... trust ... the bond. Anyway ... then he cries ... he feels guilty ... and tells me that he loves her ... etc. .. But then we do it another time. When he leaves my house, I never understand how he feels.
 
Then he goes on vacation, at the end of October, with her. For three weeks we stay in touch very little because there is no field. When he comes back he closes the story with me. He says he cannot take it anymore, he says it's not right for me nor for her. He says that he got married and made her a promise ... he tells me that he loves her ... that sex with her is not bad ... that having sex with me doesn’t convince him ... And here, for the first time I burst: I explain to him that when you are really happy there is no reason to look for sex elsewhere and especially not with the opposite sex. I tell him that maybe he didn’t realize it ... but what binds us is not a friendship ...
 
I didn’t tell him it's love ... I told him that in my opinion he feels a great affection for his wife ... but that this is different from love, and that, always in my opinion, he suffers from internalized homophobia. He asks me what the solution would be and I reply that, the best thing would be to take a break with her, to stay alone (even without seeing me) and understand what he really wants. He tells me it's not true ... he tells me that he started going with men because he felt not integrated, without a work and depressed. And I tell him that if all men betrayed their wife with other men for the above reasons, we would no longer have happy marriages. The usual things ... I explained that he must look for the reasons, talk to a psychologist, etc. I explained to him how it was for me ... and that in any case, the fact of feeling the need to stay / go with men, combined with homo-affectivity, has its roots in his own sexuality.
 
I was patient ... a lot, but hearing from him that sex with his wife was not bad ... and then the opposite ... well, it made me go out of my mind, even if in that moment I didn’t realize clearly why. I spent a horrible week. Empty, discouraged, sad, alone. The following Saturday I wanted to see him again to talk to him and in the end we made "peace" if we can say so. And we started seeing each other again and again, etc. For the first time, it seemed to me that he understood that my goal was not that he left his wife ... but that he was calm, happy, fulfilled. Everything went on normally ... we saw each other when we could, I went to get him at work. As for the afternoons, his wife had changed jobs and now worked with office hours, he could no longer lie and so, to see him, I choose the free day of the week coinciding with his. He came to me at home, he reached me in bed, he woke me, we spent time together ... he helped me with the work at home ... as a couple that we were really not. I was the lover in love with a man of another person.
 
Then, at the end of November, he gets his much-hoped job ... and the same evening, celebrating with me (and not with his wife), he tells me that he loves me ... in his own way ... but he loves me. I was happy, I was beginning to hope to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Then I spent the Christmas holidays with my parents ... we stayed in touch normally ... I didn’t tell him that I had done my coming out so as not to burden him with further worries and when I got back we met ... and there, crying, I he tells me that he has decided to close ... that he wants to save his marriage ... that he made a promise to his wife ... that he is fine with me, but neither sex nor life with a man convince him ... etc. ... a bitter blow. We cried for two hours .. and he told me that he doesn’t want to lose me ... that he loves me, that I’m important etc. He didn’t leave me for a minute. He said he had not yet made a choice ... but that he could not take it anymore. He even told me that he had to be careful not to mention me too much ... otherwise his wife would have asked questions. He tells me he cannot give me what I want from him, but that I'm very important in his life and he doesn’t want to lose me ... he wants to keep hearing me.
 
But in the meantime he attended chats on the net ... and I saw him online many times... I thought: he wants to save his marriage ... but he’s always chatting with other men and maybe he also meets them! Well, do you know what? We continued with good morning, goodnight ... uninterrupted messages ... we conducted a relationship without sex, because I was afraid of the HIV, ... just like before.
 
He assured me that he saw only a friend in me ... then, he was constantly looking for me and wanted to see me regularly ... he came regularly to my house for dinner ... when his wife was out to dinner with her friends ... I told him more than once that I was sorry ... but even if he didn’t admit it, we were not friends ... because two friends don’t hug each other ... don’t give each other kisses on the neck ... and above all they don’t have an erection with every hug. When I complained it he said I was exaggerating ... My friends said he was an egoist and I had to close. But I, in order not to lose him, accepted everything.
 
At a certain point he tells me that his wife would like to meet me ... and that everything would be easier for him if she knew me ... because he wanted to integrate me in his life ... And I tell him that I would never do such a thing, that seamed to me disrespectful and disgusting. And what was the reason? If she had known me, he would not have to answer any more questions ... He asked me it, even though I had never asked too many questions about his wife and had never spoken badly about her, not even once.
 
Nevertheless, I asked myself what kind of wife doesn’t want to have sex with her husband at that age and above all I asked myself how she didn’t notice her husband's moods. Perhaps it was because I realize quickly if something / someone doesn’t go but I had the impression that his was a marriage already finished. I carried on the thing feeling uncomfortable, not sleeping at night, not being able to concentrate on the studies ... then I tried to discuss it with him ... and he cried a lot, etc. ... until in the end of March we went to walk in the mountains and once arrived at the top I extracted the thermos of coffee and a pack of biscuits ... and he told me: "Why are you doing all this? Why do you bring all the things that I like?" I told him that I do it for all the people I love (which is absolutely true). And he said: "But do you know that ours is only a friendship?" ... and I didn’t say anything. I just thought: "You tell me it all the time ... but only because it makes you feel good".
 
Then I proposed to go for dinner after the walk and he told me: "And how would you see this dinner? As a romantic meeting or as a dinner with friends?" And there I really lost patience ... we walked for more than an hour in silence, then we sat on a bench ... always in silence. And after ten minutes he says to me: "Don’t you have anything to say?" And I let myself explode: I told him that his behavior was unjust, that he didn’t make any choice in order not to have to take a position but in fact he was with her (heterosexuality of the facade) and nevertheless continued to get all the attentions on my part (homosexuality).
 
I reiterated the fact that it was not right, either for me or for her ... and that I could not take it anymore. My life was not peaceful. The chat topic too came out. I told him that I knew he was always online, etc. ... and he swore to me that he had not attended other men after me but that, as I knew, he could not stand without that part. And I screamed in face of him that it would have been right to let his wife go because she had every right to live with a man who really loved her. My friends said I couldn’t really know if he really loved her. And I repeated that when there is love, certain things are not to be done. And that if he were in love with his wife, he wouldn’t be so attached to me as a lover. Also because I consider myself able to recognize the difference between love and well-being.
 
I patiently explained to him that I thought it was right not to see /hear each other anymore. I advised him to consult a psychologist (we had been talking about it for months) and to solve his problems. And then I added that, if his problems were resolved in my direction, my door would be always open to him, but as a partner, not as a friend. Well ... I have not seen him since the beginning of April. The same evening he wrote me a myriad of messages ... he left me vocal messages asking me to think again about it ... crying ... that it was not right to close a friendship ... telling me that I was not behaving well.
 
He proposed to me to let me heard even less, in order not to stress me too much, etc. ... I didn’t listen to him, I held on. We have not seen each other since. He looks for me regularly ... once a week he writes ... he misses me, he concludes the messages with a big hug ... every excuse is good to write. I sometimes answer politely but in a detached way.
 
Clearly his wife is still unaware of everything ... but so ... why tell her strange things... he is straight!! His perpetual searching for me makes me sick ... but it gives me the confirmation that he doesn’t accept my choice and that he cannot be without me. In a message he wrote to me that he had represses himself so as not to write to me. On Monday I received a message from him: "I went by the psychologist and told him about you. I cried a lot. I miss you a lot. I hope your phrase in your Whatsapp profile doesn’t refer to me, otherwise I don’t understand why you don’t make yourself heard. I hope you're better and that I can go to the concert with you in June."
 
In March he had bought tickets for a concert to go there together in June. I replied to him with a long message ... reiterating the fact that I hope the psychologist can help him find himself and live lightly ... explaining that I feel not at ease, that I miss him more than ever but staying close is not a viable solution. As for the concert, I told him that I cannot give him what he needs ... as he cannot give it to me. And that he can go there with other friends or with his wife. His answer was "dumb!". The next day I wrote to him, just to know if he had slept. I did it because I needed it. I know what it means to go to the psychologist the first time and I felt compelled to write to him. He replied that he is well, that he had dreamed so much and that he feels alone ... he misses me, but he cannot expect anything more from me. And still a hug ...
 
Sorry if I was verbose ... this is my story ... at the moment, despite five months have passed since January, I feel really uncomfortable. I'm in love more than ever and I think he realized that maybe I'm more important than what he wanted to believe. But as my best friend says: "My dear, the facts, only the facts matter. And he's there with her, not here with you!" My opinion is that he is gay, repressed, with a strong homophobia and that he still has to make his acceptance path. I believe that in life we need balls and courage to follow our heart and I think he is not ready yet. I don’t know how to behave anymore. I don’t know how to stop this story and go further. The idea of seeing other men makes me vomit. And the fact that I cannot have the love of my life (because I know that we are exactly this one for the other), it tears me apart.
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