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being gay later in life?

Is it posb. for a person to find out they are gay later on in life and in their 40's

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    If they were in denial, yes. Like, a lot of people in their 40's and 50's, when they were younger, homosexuality was not as accepted as it is now. But now that it is being more accepted, some may find it comfortable to come out of the closet, even if they were married to a member of the same sex.

  • 1 decade ago

    Denial doesn't necessarily have anything to do with it. Some people simply find out much later on in life. I've known a few people that had this experience. Some of them married young and had kids and never imagined that they would ever get divorced or end up with a same-gender partner because they were very much in love with the person they married. And some of them knew they are gay but did the marriage and family thing anyway because they felt pressured to do it.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes, but I don't believe people "FIND OUT" that they're gay. It's that they finally are able to acknowledge it, whether it's because they're free of family or peer pressures at last, or they just get tired of being miserable while pretending to be all the things they know that they're not.

  • 1 decade ago

    People change and I am sure that sometimes preferences change later in life. I know of some one that decided to be gay at 50. Whatever works for you, just works for you (smiles).

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes.

    A lot of people lie to themselves due to family pressure, religous beliefs, or just out of fear of not being accepted for their true selves!! :@)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    no...it just means they wasted their youth being in denial...c'mon, dude, seriously? the whole time they were screwing females they never thought of d!ck? pleeeze!

  • Mark
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Yes, it is, and don't let ppl feed you that "i was born that way bullshit" because i personally believe no one is born gay it's just something that's comes to some ppl who happen to like the same sex, but to answer your querstion Yes, It is possible

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes it is, if they were in denial.

  • 1 decade ago

    ya, i think so. there have been cases where people have repressed it that long.

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