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Originally Posted by loquitur
oh yeah, and let's not forget the wife and kids that most of these guys have. Why the heck should they be made to suffer just because someone don't like the husband's politics?
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You know, the New Jersey governor who was outed a year or so ago, I forget his name, came on the talk show circuit recently to support a book he'd written. He was all about how coming out (in his case, to short-cut his imminent outing) was hard, hard on his family, hard all the way around, but in the end it was the best thing that could have ever happened to him. His wife is happy now, in the life she now has. His kids are happy. There was a specter of lies hanging over that family that, once it was out in the open, and people had some time to heal from it, allowed everyone to have a lot of freedom and peace.
I don't know if his case is typical, but from his point of view, being outed ended up being way better than continuing to live the lie.