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HTML <html> <head> <title>Soulphisticated Lady: These are my confessions</title> </head> <body> <h1>Soulphisticated Lady: These are my confessions</h1> <div class="info">Author: <a href="author_1_109933.html">jaha Knight</a></div><div class="body">By: jaha Knight<br /> <br /> <br /> A few days ago, my friend Karen called to tell me that I didn’t have to write a poem for her wedding. She was screaming in my ear. I asked her, “What’s the problem? I told you I’d write it.” She (still screaming) said that there would be no wedding. I was immediately concerned, “Calm down and tell me what happened?” I couldn’t imagine that whatever it was would be a major thing. She said, “Guess!” To be frank, I guessed the most outlandish thing I could think of, saying to myself, it couldn’t be as bad as that. “He’s gay!” I said, lips poised to laugh aloud. Karen was silent. She said, “How did you guess that quickly?” I was dumbfounded! I didn’t think that would be the situation I’d just walked into. Not with this church going, bible quoting friend of mine. She had to be the most unlikely person for this to happen to. But is there a type of person that this happens to? Well, I’ll save that for a new episode on the Jackson Knight Show.<br /> <br /> Let’s get back to the situation at hand. The down low brother, let’s give a definition, shall we? I liken the down low brother to a roach. He'd do his dirt in the dark but when the lights come on, he'd scurry back to his "other" world where he masquerades as a hetero-loving man. And the typical down low brother has been scurrying from the light for a while now but I never expected one of those roaches to stand firm when the lights were turned on. This man has managed to convince himself that he is a legit hetero for quite a while. So long that she didn’t think anything of it when he asked her to touch his butt, and do other little things to him that she didn’t feel were quite normal. This has me a bit shocked. Things like this didn’t happen to any of my friends nor my life. But it had. And my friend was hurting. So I had to work on helping her heal.<br /> <br /> She wasn’t in denial, or maybe she was. The first stage is acceptance, and she’d already been through that stage. She went along quietly to visit his family to let them know the situation. She went into couples and single counseling with him at her church and she was truly trying to understand what he was going through. But now she is angry. She isn’t just angry, she is furious. Several times during our conversation she asked me if he thought she was tissue, if he could just wipe all his gay away. She felt tricked and she was mightily hurt. She didn’t see this as a blessing, she saw it as her worst nightmare, realized.<br /> <br /> I was glad she’d found out, though, before the nuptials. Imagine how many women are married to men with the same secret tucked away in the back of their minds everyday. He'd confessed, and she was hurt. But he wouldn't have stood so firm in the light had she not kept turning it off and flicking it on.<br /> <br /> For more information, visit the Jackson Knight Show podcast on Itunes. Based on our “These are my confessions” Episode<br /> <br /> </div> <div class="source">Article Source: <a href="http://www.articlealley.com/article_472943_28.html">http://www.articlealley.com/article_472943_28.html</a></div> <div class="author"> <div class="authorBio"></div> </author> </body> </html>
Text Soulphisticated Lady: These are my confessions Author: jaha Knight By: jaha Knight A few days ago, my friend Karen called to tell me that I didn’t have to write a poem for her wedding. She was screaming in my ear. I asked her, “What’s the problem? I told you I’d write it.” She (still screaming) said that there would be no wedding. I was immediately concerned, “Calm down and tell me what happened?” I couldn’t imagine that whatever it was would be a major thing. She said, “Guess!” To be frank, I guessed the most outlandish thing I could think of, saying to myself, it couldn’t be as bad as that. “He’s gay!” I said, lips poised to laugh aloud. Karen was silent. She said, “How did you guess that quickly?” I was dumbfounded! I didn’t think that would be the situation I’d just walked into. Not with this church going, bible quoting friend of mine. She had to be the most unlikely person for this to happen to. But is there a type of person that this happens to? Well, I’ll save that for a new episode on the Jackson Knight Show. Let’s get back to the situation at hand. The down low brother, let’s give a definition, shall we? I liken the down low brother to a roach. He'd do his dirt in the dark but when the lights come on, he'd scurry back to his "other" world where he masquerades as a hetero-loving man. And the typical down low brother has been scurrying from the light for a while now but I never expected one of those roaches to stand firm when the lights were turned on. This man has managed to convince himself that he is a legit hetero for quite a while. So long that she didn’t think anything of it when he asked her to touch his butt, and do other little things to him that she didn’t feel were quite normal. This has me a bit shocked. Things like this didn’t happen to any of my friends nor my life. But it had. And my friend was hurting. So I had to work on helping her heal. She wasn’t in denial, or maybe she was. The first stage is acceptance, and she’d already been through that stage. She went along quietly to visit his family to let them know the situation. She went into couples and single counseling with him at her church and she was truly trying to understand what he was going through. But now she is angry. She isn’t just angry, she is furious. Several times during our conversation she asked me if he thought she was tissue, if he could just wipe all his gay away. She felt tricked and she was mightily hurt. She didn’t see this as a blessing, she saw it as her worst nightmare, realized. I was glad she’d found out, though, before the nuptials. Imagine how many women are married to men with the same secret tucked away in the back of their minds everyday. He'd confessed, and she was hurt. But he wouldn't have stood so firm in the light had she not kept turning it off and flicking it on. For more information, visit the Jackson Knight Show podcast on Itunes. Based on our “These are my confessions” Episode Article Source: http://www.articlealley.com/article_472943_28.html About the Author:
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