Summary: | The fear of ego-dystonic gays of admitting their sexual orientation to other
people has led them into the Mix Orientation Marriage (MOM), where the
husband has a homosexual orientation while the wife has a hetero sexual
orientation. In the MOM the wives are most likely to be in the victim party with a
variety of conflicts that arise, both intrapersonal and interpersonal. The existing
conflicts cause the wives to make some adjustments in order to cope and survive
in the MOM.
The methode employed in this study is qualitative approach and case
study-phenomenology. The datas are collected through in-depth interviews as the
main sources, focus group discussions (FGD), observation, and documentation.
The study reveals the dynamics psychological of the subjects (gay wives), that
emerge in the MOM by referring to three main questions of: how the dating
process happen
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