caro:
GOOD: Dealbreaker: My Wife Is Gay
I’ve been so busy recently (ten 13-hour days in a row, missed a flight this morning because I slept through my alarm) that I have had a chance to share this here. This is a long-gestating piece I wrote for GOOD about Daria and I—our marriage, separation, and our enduring bond. I’ve long been reluctant to write publicly about such personal matters, being turned off by oversharing and reflexively private, but writing about our separation has been an exception—it’s actually been quite therapeutic and instructive to put it out there, and over the course of the past year Daria and I came to feel that writing about our experience might be helpful to others, and a staggering number of people have responded as such.
Of course, this writing has so far been on Tumblr, both my own and the one that Daria and I run together, while GOOD has a pretty huge reach, so I put this out there with a fair amount of trepidation. It turned out to be one of the toughest assignments I’ve ever finished; many thanks to @amandahess for her patience and excellent editing, and of course, Daria for her love and support.
I can’t even begin to find the right adjective to describe this piece, or how I feel when reading it, but I think you should sit down and read it.
This is really wonderful. Read all the way until the end.
