Submitted by [deleted] t3_z8f0xq in relationship_advice
Before my fiancé (26M) and I (24F) started dating, we were friends for over a year; during that time I told him I was bisexual and had dated women in the past. He responded positively and said, “that’s cool!” And he let me open up about my past, being in the closet and even asked questions regarding my sexuality that he also took pretty well.
Later on, we started dating, and now eventually going to get married, or at least we’re supposed to get married in three months. The topic of my bisexuality is rarely mentioned. I really have no reason to talk about it because it’s just who I am, I’m terrified of going to any marches or events due to what’s been happening lately, and really what could I say? A few weeks ago I mentioned something about it after he made a joke about my gay friend, trying to defend my friend, and in response, he said, “you’re not bi, you’re getting married to me.” I defended myself, and we went back and forth about it, but he essentially made it very clear he doesn’t like LGBT and doesn’t believe I am bisexual. I dropped it because like most of our arguments, we steer off-topic, start laughing, and make up.
He’s very sarcastic and often says things to shock me that he eventually admits were just that, sarcasm. While I wasn’t sure if what he said was one of those times, I wanted to see the best in him and assumed if he was still dating me, and knew of my sexuality since before we were dating, then he obviously has no real issue. Naïve. Of course.
As for today… I don’t remember how exactly it came up, but I remember mentioning my being bisexual as a point to something he said, and before I could even finish my sentence, he interrupted and said, “you’re not bisexual.” I of course defended myself and asked him why he disliked gay people— and asked why it even mattered if I wasn’t planning on dating any women in the future, just him.
He told me it’s wrong, against his beliefs, and that he doesn’t want to believe I’m bisexual because if I keep insisting I am, he’d have to end things. He doesn’t want me telling our children it’s okay to be queer. It’s just wrong to him. When I asked I’m if he was breaking up with me then, he said only if I’m bisexual to which I insisted I was, and he only said “I guess I have to.”
I tried to get him to elaborate but he knows me more than anyone and knows how to change the subject, getting me to drop it. He didn’t bring the topic up again later, and I’m still trying to process everything to even say anything more on the subject.
Besides me obviously loving him to death, I also don’t know if we should break up because… does it matter? If I’m attracted to him and him only (loyal to a fault) why should we end things? Part of me feels devastated that someone who accepted so many of my quirks and flaws won’t accept this part. Part of me feels hurt that he was telling me, to my face, that my experiences mean nothing and that he doesn’t want me passing off my genes or “gay ideas” to our future children. That he thinks it’s even wrong in the first place. The part that loves him is— maybe naively, trying to hold onto this relationship, and call this disagreement a flaw that can be overlooked. I know that even if I overlook this fact, it will come up in the future, and I may grow to resent him. I just don’t wanna lose him, but I don’t know if it’s right, or even fair to myself to just let it go and let him have his beliefs.
We’ve always been different in a lot of ways:
He’s religious, I’m not. I was born in a western society, he was not. I’m Hispanic, he’s not spicy. He’s a homebody, I wanna go out. He likes homemade food and doesn’t like eating out, I can’t cook. I like sushi, he makes me eat across the room because he can’t stand the smell. We are complete opposites and yet somehow we respect each other’s differences and beliefs and have never given each other an ultimatum, and certainly never about our identity/beliefs. In a way, I feel like he’s trying to make me give up my identity, while I’m trying to make him give up his beliefs. And I don’t want to do that.
I want to try talking about it to him later but he was so quick to call an end to us earlier. Right now we are still texting (he’s at work) normally as if nothing happened, he asked me to pick him up a coffee when I stop to spend his lunch with him. So normal. Seemingly unaffected. I’m honestly so lost, and don’t know what to do, if it matters, if I should be hurt, if he’s really so homophobic— my mind is just racing.
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