One hour into “Brokeback Mountain,” Amy Jo Remmele began to cry, and not just for the woman on-screen, standing in a doorway in Riverton, Wyo., watching her husband embrace a man. “When I saw that look in her eyes, I thought, ‘Oh, yeah.’ Even though I never saw my husband with another man, I knew exactly how that woman would have felt,” said Mrs. Remmele, a respiratory therapist in rural Minnesota. On June 1, 2000, Mrs. Remmele, then 31, discovered her husband’s profile on the Web site gay.com. The couple stayed up all that night weeping and talking. Soon afterward, 10 days before she gave birth to her second child, Mrs. Remmele’s husband went off to spend a couple of nights with his new boyfriend. “I tried to talk him out of it, and he left anyway,” Mrs. Remmele said. “I was devastated.” Three months later the couple divorced. Mrs. Remmele now married to a farmer who raises cattle, corn and soybeans is one of an estimated 1.7 million to 3.4 million American women who once were or are now married to men who have sex with men. The estimate derives from “The Social […]
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
Many Couples Must Negotiate Terms of ‘Brokeback’ Marriages
Author: KATY BUTLER
Source: The New York Times
Publication Date: 7-Mar-06
Link: Many Couples Must Negotiate Terms of ‘Brokeback’ Marriages
Source: The New York Times
Publication Date: 7-Mar-06
Link: Many Couples Must Negotiate Terms of ‘Brokeback’ Marriages
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