article_snippet: Kirstie, 29, says it took a long time to realise not everyone would be accepting of everyone partnership after everyone dealt with disapproving family members and friends who abandoned them. '
article_snippet: Eventually we went we separate ways and both went through relationships.
article_snippet: That's when we just gave up trying to ignore everything.'
article_snippet: the pair then had to bravely tell the pair immediate and extended families and admit it was a long process before people accepted it.
article_snippet: My two brothers lost a few friends over it though.
article_snippet: and I stopped speaking to my best friend about a year ago.'