I am 28 and have been with my partner for 7 years. Recently I have began to really question our relationship. My relationship is a secret to my family as I would not be accepted and don't want to lose my relationship with my family. Over the last couple of years I have noticed my jealousy towards friends and co-workers who are celebrating marriage and pregnancies. I want nothing more to be celebrating the same thing. However, because my relationship is non-exsistant to my family, these are things that I don't feel are possible. I have began to really question I've my life style choices are what is causing my unhappiness. Would just conforming to "normal" allow me to experience marriage and children make my happy? Because what I am doing now is only causing pain and sadness.