The Uncomfortable Confessions of a Preacher's Kid

A frank intimate account of one womans search for herself as a woman mother and sexual being. Lara Lillibridge author of Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home The Uncomfortable Confessions of a Preachers Kid is the story of a childhood controlled by the brutal hand of a narcissistic closeted homosexual. I believed I could leave my upbringing behind and walk away unscathed. I married a closeted homosexual man in hopes he could keep me safe. As our sex life and bank account dwindled to nothing fear kept me silent. In the meantime my father died of AIDs. The pain of his death fractured my biological family and I clung to my husband and children creating a cocoon that became a prison. Eventually I was forced to see my husbands homosexuality and refusal to work realizations that brought me to the breaking point. I found the courage to be alone to take care of my children no matter the cost and the joy of my own sexual freedom. In the process I fell in love with my own life.