{"id":46121,"date":"2016-10-14T10:25:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T14:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/preachers-wife-speaks-candidly-about-that-time-she-learned-her-husband-was-gay\/"},"modified":"2016-10-14T10:25:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T14:25:30","slug":"preachers-wife-speaks-candidly-about-that-time-she-learned-her-husband-was-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/preachers-wife-speaks-candidly-about-that-time-she-learned-her-husband-was-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"Preacher\u2019s Wife Speaks Candidly About That Time She Learned Her Husband Was Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Preacher\u2019s Wife Speaks Candidly About That Time She Learned Her Husband Was Gay<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/10\/13135621\/Lydia-Meredith-The-Gay-Preachers-Wife-17-1.jpg\" alt=\"lydia-meredith-the-gay-preachers-wife-17-1\" width=\"650\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/10\/13135621\/Lydia-Meredith-The-Gay-Preachers-Wife-17-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/10\/13135621\/Lydia-Meredith-The-Gay-Preachers-Wife-17-1-360x255.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\"><\/p>\n<p>On the outside, Lydia Meredith appeared to have&nbsp;it all.<\/p>\n<p>As the wife of a popular Atlanta pastor and the mother of three beautiful children, she was a well-respected member in&nbsp;her community.&nbsp;She also had&nbsp;several&nbsp;masters degrees and held a senior position at&nbsp;a Fortune 500 company.<\/p>\n<p>But all&nbsp;was not as it seemed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/theyve-married-month-christian-husband-just-confessed-hes-gay-20160913\" target=\"_blank\">They&rsquo;ve Only Been Married A Month And Her Christian Husband Just Confessed That He&rsquo;s Gay<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I was one of those preachers&rsquo; wives who sat in the pew on many a Sunday morning while my &lsquo;real&rsquo; life was a fraud,&rdquo; Meredith writes in her new memoir&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gay-Preachers-Wife-Deconstructed-Reconstructed\/dp\/1476788936\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1476377941&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Lydia+Meredith\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Gay Preacher&rsquo;s Wife:&nbsp;How My Gay Husband Deconstructed My Life and Reconstructed My Faith.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several years into her nearly 30 year marriage, Meredith&nbsp;discovered her husband was cheating on her with other <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But I stayed,&rdquo; she writes. &ldquo;I watched my husband stand in that pulpit on Sunday morning, preaching one message and living out yet another.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Even after her husband was arrested for soliciting <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> with another <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a>, Meredith says she stuck by him, suggesting instead of getting divorced they go to <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">couple<\/a>&rsquo;s counseling.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I loved my husband,&rdquo; she reveals in an&nbsp;interview with <em><a href=\"http:\/\/rollingout.com\/2016\/10\/12\/atlanta-church-first-ladys-husband-son-come-gay\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rolling Out<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>adding that it was often easy to turn a blind eye because she was such a workaholic. &ldquo;I was&nbsp;a professional <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a> working as a senior engineer for a Fortune 500 company. I was living my life, married with three children.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The infidelities and the counseling went on for years. Then in 2005, everything finally&nbsp;crashing down when her husband said he was leaving her for another <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/im-pretty-sure-husband-gay-insists-isnt-20161008\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;I&rsquo;m Pretty Sure My Husband Is Gay, But He Insists He Isn&rsquo;t&rdquo;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/10\/13135646\/the-gay-preachers-wife-9781476788937_hr-618x960-360x559.jpg\" alt=\"the-gay-preachers-wife-9781476788937_hr-618x960\" width=\"250\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/10\/13135646\/the-gay-preachers-wife-9781476788937_hr-618x960-360x559.jpg 360w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/10\/13135646\/the-gay-preachers-wife-9781476788937_hr-618x960-431x670.jpg 431w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/10\/13135646\/the-gay-preachers-wife-9781476788937_hr-618x960.jpg 618w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">&ldquo;He told me he wanted to <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">live<\/a> the rest of his life as a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a>,&rdquo; Meredith&nbsp;says.&nbsp;&ldquo;At that time, I didn&rsquo;t know he was in a relationship with a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a>. Most of the time when we were in therapy discussing his struggles it was never a relationship; it was always [just] <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a>. This particular time it was very different. He had fallen in love with a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Meredith was devastated.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I prayed my entire young life for God to send me a husband&ndash;God always answers my prayers&ndash;why did I end up marrying a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a>?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As all this was happening, she&nbsp;also learned her middle son was&nbsp;<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Meredith says&nbsp;she still loves and respects her ex-husband, who now preaches at the&nbsp;Tabernacle Baptist Church in Atlanta. The congregation has&nbsp;over 1,000 members and is made up mostly of members of the LGBTQ community.&nbsp;Their <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> son also works at the church as the minister of music.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I want to share some topics that I feel need to be addressed for <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> who find themselves in situations like I found myself in,&rdquo; Meredith says, &ldquo;and to help them and to show them they can get through it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>She adds that, while&nbsp;it took a long time for her to get over the pain, she doesn&rsquo;t hold any resentment or ill-will towards her ex-husband today.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The church needs a new kind of ministry,&rdquo; she adds, &ldquo;one steeped in the ministry started by Jesus [and]&nbsp;free of bias, discrimination, hate, or prejudice.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/wife-finds-gay-videos-husbands-phone-suspects-hes-sleeping-best-friend-now-20160629\" target=\"_blank\">Wife Finds Gay Videos On Husband&rsquo;s Phone, Suspects He&rsquo;s Sleeping With His Best Friend&hellip; Now What?!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=PflDUEFIBJs:DrUqgknh63s:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=PflDUEFIBJs:DrUqgknh63s:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/preachers-wife-speaks-candidly-time-learned-husband-gay-20161014?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.queerty.com\/preachers-wife-speaks-candidly-time-learned-husband-gay-20161014?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preacher\u2019s Wife Speaks Candidly About That Time She Learned Her Husband Was Gay On the outside, Lydia Meredith appeared to have&nbsp;it all. 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