In other cases it has been shown that individuals can be assisted to live a heterosexual lifestyle, but that their sexual orientation remains unchanged.
"I love homosexuals," Short declared in 2005, claiming that he and his wife Rosalyn have counseled 15 homosexuals to a successful heterosexual lifestyles with their love and prayer.
His heterosexual lifestyle notwithstanding, Macedonski remained a self-avowed admirer of male beauties, and was rumored to be a closeted homosexual.
There is a tendency in Western countries toward serial monogamy as a normal heterosexual lifestyle.
He discovered that Arnold, his father, was a homosexual who was bullied into accepting a heterosexual lifestyle by his own abusive father.
Apart from a striking resemblance it is said they both have and had respectably homosexual tendencies while remaining defiant in their heterosexual lifestyles.
Still, many homosexual or bisexual people choose to live a heterosexual lifestyle, despite their feelings.
Ovid, who advocates generally for a heterosexual lifestyle, finds it "a desire known to no one, freakish, novel .