My Ex Just Married a Man

And I couldn't be happier for him

Cherilyn Christen Clough
Human Parts
Published in
9 min readJun 12, 2024

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Picture of two men hugging with white flowers in the background.
Photo by In Lieu & In View Photography

My husband knelt in front of me two times. The first was to ask me to marry him, and the second time was to set him free so he could pursue life as a gay man. I cried both times. When people hear that my ex is gay and we were married for thirty years, they want to know how in the world this happened, so I’ll start from the beginning.

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Cherilyn Christen Clough
Human Parts

Exposing narcissism, smashing the patriarchy, and refuting religious abuse--one story at a time