A Marriage to An Asexual Bisexual: A Book Of Poems

By Liam Edward

This book of poems takes you on a journey through Liam's mind as he processes the broken marriage from his wife who was the love of his life. Liam's wife came out as asexual and bisexual which confused Liam as to what his role was in the relationship. When Liam's wife came out, they were already separated for about nine months Liam's wife asked him to move back in and work on the marriage. There were some hurdles to overcome though.

When his wife came out as asexual and bisexual, his wife also told him that she was sexually roleplaying on Twitter using characters from Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway plays and movies. Liam told his wife that he was willing to work with her coming out as asexual and bisexual because he loved his wife very much but was not willing to accept her sexually roleplaying while being married. His wife agreed to stop the sexual roleplay, so Liam moved back in to work on the marriage. A few months later while cuddling in bed at night, Liam saw his wife sexually roleplaying on Twitter and told his wife the next morning that she was cheating on him. Things went south real fast.

After Liam confronted his wife about the cheating, his wife kicked him out of the house. Liam spent that weekend scared, confused, and confiding in the bottle. Liam relapsed after being sober for some time. Liam went into rehab where he met with his therapist on a weekly basis. His therapist challenged Liam to journal every day to get his thoughts and emotions out so that he could process them. The journaling led into writing poems.

This book, A Marriage to an Asexual Bisexual, is a journey of Liam's confusions, resentments, anger, and concerns over a period of about thirty days. These poems in the book are presented in chronological order as they were written over those thirty days. It's a journey that has allowed Liam to process everything that has happened and everything that was presently going on in his life.

Liam is now in the process of writing a second book of poems, A Marriage to Recovery. Liam supports the LGBTQIA community and feels that people should be allowed to be who they are and treated equally. This book is not meant to be used as propaganda against the community, but instead, it's a book about the confusion that the other half endures. Liam and his wife were married for fourteen years. Liam saw a big change in his wife about seven years into the marriage and was unhappy with the marriage for the last seven years. Liam often said to his wife, "You don't love me. You just love the idea of me." As it turns out, Liam was right seven years ago.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9798886540789

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A Marriage to An Asexual Bisexual

A Book Of Poems

Liam Edward

Copyright © 2022 Liam Edward

All rights reserved

First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING

Conneaut Lake, PA

First originally published by Page Publishing 2022

ISBN 979-8-88654-067-3 (pbk)

ISBN 979-8-88654-078-9 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

I Wish

(This is) Why it Hurts

The Pain

Time

Break Free

You and I

Nothing to Say

You Lose

No Choice

You

Role You Play

Our Love

Break the Cycle

Thoughts of Sadness

What Happened

In My Head

The Truth Is

The Days We Had

A, Grey, Pan

A, Bi, and Bye

The Woman I Married

I Fell in Love

My Best Friend

Goodbye

Understand

We, I, You

My Gratitude Poem

Outta Time

Abandoned

Shattered Heart

Lost on Words

For Me to Forgive

Me, You, Us

Warm Embrace

The One for Me

Baggage

Worth It

Come Back

You Say No

Tonight

Leave This World

Truth of the Matter

I've Made Up My Mind

My True Love

You're, Your

New Journey

Goodbye

Can I Say

Open Heart

Missed Your Shot

Me

Long Time Since

I Need to Find

Our Love

The Moon and Stars

The Things You Have Said

Can't Live This Way

I Wish (No. 2)

What Was the Point

What Did You Say

Don't You Know

My Flame

What to Say

Lost Trust

So Many Things

Don't Tell Me

There Will Be

You Changed

Our Love

So Cold

Say What

The End

About the Author

A special thank you to

Jackie, Amanda and Ari

For helping me find my voice.

I Wish

I wish I could put into words

The thoughts in my mind.

They tumble over each other

Like the wild white water

Running out of time.

I wish I could say what I feel

But my words come out in a jumble bind.

They tumble over each other

Like concert goers trying

To be first in line.

I wish the recess of my mind

Would be free of disarray.

But it struggles with itself

Like the needle needing

To score its last payoff.

I wish I could put into words

The thoughts in my mind.

They tumble over each other

Because I am the one

Running out of time!

(This is) Why it Hurts

This is why it hurts

You're the one I love.

I waited in time for you

To be the one who showed.

We were once full of passion

There was nothing for us to prove.

We had the pinnacle connection

Now here we stand to lose.

We took on the world in fashion

No other bond compared.

Love waited for us to cash in

While all others