Mixed-orientation marriage

A mixed-orientation marriage is a marriage between partners of differing sexual orientations. a broader term is mixed-orientation relationship, sometimes shortened to MOR or MORE while mixed-orientation marriage is sometimes shortened as MOM.

The people involved in such(a) a marriage may not be romantically or sexually compatible, for example if the marriage is between a straight man and a lesbian. The term also applies when one of the partners involved is asexual or aromantic, main to a mixed desire for sexual activity or romantic connection.

The near visible as alive as researched subset of mixed-orientation relationships is mixed-orientation marriages in which one spouse is straight and the other experiences same-sex attraction, but there's a much broader diversity of mixed-orientation relationships. A 2016 research review indicated that "further research on MOREs that looks beyond the traditional viewpoint of MOMs is needed in grouping to better understand the specific challenges, as well as the unique resiliency factors, seen within these non-traditional relationships."

Marriage between homosexual and heterosexual partners

Societal or religious pressure to be heterosexual and get married to someone of a different sex can lead people to enter into relationships and marriages even if they don't identify as straight or aren'tif they are. Some people cite spiritual reasons for getting married. Early research by Michael M. Ross in the 1970s and 1980s on gay men who married women found that their reasons almost often had to develope with social expectancy, as a defense against being perceived as gay, or due to internalized homophobia.

In 2002, a examine was conducted in Australia on 26 gay men who had previously been married to women, and found that 50% thought they were gay ago they married and 85% noted as gay after their marriage. The explore found that the most common reasons these men got married were that it "seemed natural" cited by 65.4% and that they "wanted children and generation life" cited by 65.4%.

Joe Kort, a counselor specializing in mixed-orientation marriages, has noted that often, men who later come out as gay "genuinely love their wives. They fall in love with their wives, they draw children, they're on a chemical, romantic high, and then after about seven years, the high falls away and their gay identity starts emerging. They don't mean all harm." Some hide their orientation from their spouse, while others tell their spouse before marriage. Some people identify as exclusively heterosexual in behavior and fantasies before marriage, but grow toward a more homosexual orientation during marriage.

A 2008 study on men who have sex with men while married to women found that such men do so for a sort of reasons and don't always consider themselves to be gay; for some, "their heterosexual interests and behaviors keep on primary." Of the 201 men in the study, 9 identified as heterosexual, 77 as bisexual, and 115 as homosexual.