When challenges loom, support groups can provide a lifeline
Have you ever had that comforting experience of your friend describing a funny quality of hers, or a silly pet peeve, and you immediately jump in with “me too!”? What once seemed like a quirk that made you seem strange suddenly becomes a point of connection, relationship, and understanding.
You’ve met someone who can relate to you on a level no one else can. Because just like you, she always clicks her tongue when she’s bored, or she doesn’t know how to read lips, or she’s extraordinarily bothered by water on her hands. Maybe she cries when she sees a sunset, or she feels like she can never cry.
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Mr. Pate was quick to note: “I hear a lot of our [gay] siblings say, ‘I’m a survivor of conversion therapy,’ and I don’t put myself in that category. I don’t see it as something that was entirely or even mostly detrimental.” Even so, he described feeling pressured to accept reductive theories of homosexuality from a therapist who he felt was so eager for Mr. Pate to get married that he could spare no empathy for a potential partner, a sentiment echoed by several interviewees about their respective therapists.
Mr. Pate now thinks his therapist did not leave enough space for the Cross and for the possibility that he, as the