Harvey Guillén
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
While Stephen recovers, Debbie takes over the finances.
She discovers credit card bills from bars and restaurants she's never been to, hotels she doesn't recognize.
The double life Stephen's been living starts to unravel.
Debbie, of course, assumes Stephen has been cheating on her, so she confronts him.
Stephen tells Debbie the truth.
He has been cheating, but not with a woman.
Stephen tells Debbie that he's gay, that the life they've built together isn't real, at least not for him.
And look, I can't imagine how hard that conversation must have been for both of them.
Debbie's world just implodes.
Everything she thought she knew about her husband, her marriage, her future, gone in an instant.
But to Debbie's credit, she doesn't get mad.
She's hurt and devastated, but she also seems to understand that Stephen's been drowning and decided to come up for air.
They divorce, but remain friends.
Finally, Stephen stops hiding.
He moves into a small apartment and starts attending a church that gears its ministry to the queer community.
He meets a man named Jimmy Kemple.
Tall, dark, handsome.
For the first time in his life, Stephen gets to be himself.
He lives openly as a gay man.
Eventually, Steven and Jimmy move to Miami together and rent an apartment in Palm Beach.