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Old 12-02-2019, 08:08 PM
 
Location: Central IL
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I think the woman in question is bisexual. She probably had no awareness or had simply never considered sex with a woman as a possibility. But there is no way for me to really know. I do think sexual attraction exists on a spectrum. That is as much as I feel comfortable asserting.
True- and probably she never thought much about it because she was pretty low in drive. She likely isn't that interested in any kind of sex and perhaps BECAUSE of that doesn't much care who she is with sexually since it is the other parts of the relationship that are most important to her. If I don't personally have a lot of favorite kinds of food then you can probably take me to any kind of restaurant and it's all the same to me - Chinese, Mexican, Indian, or Thai!

People don't have to be self-aware to nonetheless BE something. So it's not a big deal and I can see how it might happen - if it works for the both of them then it's fine.
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Old 12-04-2019, 05:26 AM
 
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In my opinion women are very sentimentive and after breakig realtions with man they can bcome very good friends with another woman andd soon their connection would be much stronger, so it could be kind of relations, because as you all know mostly all women are bisexual. And they all like lesbian erotica so this relationship is real. I have a woman friend which after breaking up with her man stated to date with a woman. They really feel good together as I see.
I dont think it’s true that mostly all women are bisexual. I think most aren’t.
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Old 12-04-2019, 05:34 AM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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Two years old thread and OP isn't a member anymore.
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Old 12-04-2019, 01:30 PM
 
Location: Elsewhere
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In my opinion women are very sentimentive and after breakig realtions with man they can bcome very good friends with another woman andd soon their connection would be much stronger, so it could be kind of relations, because as you all know mostly all women are bisexual. And they all like lesbian erotica so this relationship is real. I have a woman friend which after breaking up with her man stated to date with a woman. They really feel good together as I see.
Other than your fantasy life or favorite movies, what exactly leads you to believe this?
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Old 12-10-2019, 10:04 PM
 
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This is an opinion that I've seen on some forums that's actually quite unpopular and I have a real life experience with it. I want to know what you think about it. It's a long post so bear with me please.

One of my sons friends has lesbian parents who are in a quite happy and fulfilling relationship. The thing is though, his mother was previously married to a man from a very traditional African culture and decided to divorce due to difficulties along with her sons issues with her husband.

You might be saying like a lot of people online that she realized that she was attracted to women and finally came to terms by difficulties with being married to a heterosexual man by divorcing him and marrying another woman. That's totally wrong according to her.

She says that she was alright in her relationship. She enjoyed sex with her hubbie and men in general seeing as she dated two men in her twenties when living in Kenya two decades ago. She considered herself attracted to men only and didn't consider anything else.

Now most who share this sentiment will largely claim it's because they are straight and don't feel attracted to anyone else. For her though, it's another story. When talking to her, she told me that she never felt like being in a relationship with another female until she started having major problems with her husband after moving to Europe along with her sons issues. She distanced herself from her husband and tried to console her son who was having problems with school, father, self esteem etc.. A few times, she mentioned that she would divorce her husband to her young teen son and he suggested that she should 'marry another nurturing woman'. She scoffed it as ridiculous since being gay is 'taboo' in a Africa along with the fact that she had never considered her sexuality but 5 years later, she married another woman even to her surprise and is comfortable in the relationship.

Now people will say "She was a bisexual or lesbian woman who just discovered herself" but she begs to differ. She says that she disliked the overbearing masculinity of her older husband and didn't want to risk the same thing with another man, so she married another woman since in general women raised in liberal households/areas of the West are non-agressive and more nurturing compared to men. One interesting thing is that she found that she enjoys the sex with a woman despite only entering to give her son a more nurturing parent. She herself doubts that sexual orientation can be so 'fixed' and that personal factors can change it.

What do you think about this? A lot of users here like to stress how different men and women are so if you can agree that men are more agressive and 'tough' on their wife and kids and a woman are much more nurturing and less/non-agressive, is it silly to think that someone can choose to be in a romantic and sexual relationship not on what they feel like sexually but their preferences on behavior and personality in their ideal partner based on typical gender dynamics?
No you're correct - there was a time when spinister women were allowed to marry each other. We're coming around full circle now. Those reasons you provided are just part of her story. Relative to being gay, some people are born this way, some choose, some experiment - all normal. So there's no reason for folks to take the bait, about being born this way as an reason/excuse because that's a non-issue.
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Old 12-11-2019, 01:57 PM
 
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Two years old thread and OP isn't a member anymore.
RIGHT??

I get it when a thread is more a subject of general interest, but this one started with a very specific situation and "what do you all think about this?" question.

So weird sometimes the things that get revived out of nowhere like.
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