There's an intrinsic order of things that we humans have declared as our normalcy. Boy meets girl. Wedding bells, babies, so on and so forth. It's a chronological pseudo-law we take for granted. It's been passed down throughout the generations both silently and outspoken.

What happens when there is a disruption in that order? Say boy meets girl, wedding bells, babies, and then boy meets boy. Yes, dad no longer wants to be man and wife. Rather, he wants to be man and man.

From heterosexual to homosexual is a great leap, but it's more common than we may think. Both genders are included in this general statement, but we're going to focus on dads today.

Like we mentioned before, it's more of a common occurrence than we may think. Although the LGBT movement is taking the world by force, there are many "late bloomers" out there.

It is never easy to come out, but the late bloomers probably find it the most difficult. These are the men who have lived as a husband and father for years, maybe decades, and realize that it's just not who they are. With all they have gathered in their lives, be it kids, a marriage, a house, whatever, they have to figure out how to move on with the new identity and orientation.

Now that we put a light on it, it's easy to see the challenge. So, we found some examples of this for some education and enjoyment. Here are 15 dads who realized they were gay after having kids. Enjoy!

15 Mixed-Orientation Marriage

One couple decided to go a different route than most marriages take. They said their vows, bought a house, and had kids together - which was all very typical. The path they took that was different from other's was their marriage itself.

The man knew he was gay and had known from the time he was 20. At 28, he admitted it to his wife, but promised that he would stay faithful to her and wouldn't sleep with other men. He was true to his word, but got caught kissing another man at age 40.

Rather than divorcing, they stayed together and lived whats known as a mixed-orientation marriage or MOM. In a MOM, one partner is homosexual and has relationships outside the marriage. The marriage is a union of friendship, parenthood, and financial partnership. For some, this is the way to live their dream life.

14 Making It Work

Religion plays a huge role in the lives of many people - men, women, and children. It can be the deciding factor on how you live your life...or how you don't. For centuries, religious societies have pointed their fingers in shame at homosexual lifestyles.

This finger pointing alone is enough to sway some people from being true to themselves. For one man, it was the only reason. He had always known he was gay. There was no denying it within himself. Although there was no denying it, there was also no accepting it.

He thought that if he got married and had children, his prayers of "making it work" would be answered. They weren't, but he doesn't regret it. He created two beautiful children with a woman whom he cherished and accepted him for who he was before anyone else did (or even knew). The life he lived wasn't a lie in his eyes, it was simply a prayer for acceptance.

13 Losing Daddy

Starting on the theme of transgender, one little boy who was 3 1/2 when his dad came out. His younger siblings were too young to remember their dad as a man, but the oldest remembers him. At 3 1/2 years old a child is at an age where he or she really latches on to the same-gender parent while searching for his or her own identity.

Father and son were at this point when dad started to become a women. The little boy was very afraid of losing his dad. They would do stuff together and he thought that would end. Thankfully, being a dad didn't end when being a women began.

As a very involved parent, the father was able to ward off any fears his son would experience along the journey. Both husband (at the time) and wife worked through each challenge like pros. Their children all understand that their dad is trans, but most importantly they understand that their dad is his authentic, happy self and loves them to the moon and back.

12 Beard Law

One wife never saw it coming. Her husband had been raised by conservative parents. In fact, neither he nor his wife had ever really been exposed to transgender people. They certainly didn't know any, and never thought one could be living under their roof.

He was, though. She goes on to describe her husband as a Type-B guy with a decent range of typically masculine interests and skills. He could fix a car and do manly things like that. Plus, he always had a beard. For you beard-lovers out there, this is an incredibly manly feat to accomplish, giving its owner serious med-cred.

At the time when he realized he wasn't what he wanted to be, his children were toddlers. The most influential thing on them was that it was more stress for their mother. Going through such a big change in relationship is hard enough, but doing it with little ones is way harder.

11 The American Dream

For one couple, the pursuit of the American dream was enough to seal their marriage vows even though both were homosexuals. Boy met girl and no, they did not fall in love. They fell into friendship. Then they fell into a well-thought out deal.

The deal was that they would marry, procreate, and have a wonderful life attempting to avoid the drama that homosexuality would cause. Secretly, they dated other people and had different lives outside of the safety of their home. This was the agreement.

Not even their kids know that they are a lesbian married to a gay man. It just works for this particular family, so that's the path they continue to follow. I'm not sure what they teach their kids in terms of acceptance, though. This type of relationship sort of defeats that cause. Nevertheless, it works for them and the family is happy!

10 If I Don't They'll Know

For some, marriages is a sham. Particularly for one man who would have rather been sleeping soundly next to his husband opposed to his wife. This would be the epitome of a sham. With the pressure he felt to be straight, it's comprehendible how such a crazy idea could have conjured up.

Admittedly, most people take marriage at face value. They see a man and a woman in marriage and assume both individuals are heterosexual. So, in reality this man's sham was a fairly successful one.

The only problem is that there are so many people unknowingly involved. His wife has no idea that she was a cover-up. The two had children, and they just thought their family was normal. The truth eventually did come, and although a shock at first, the kids learned to accept that their dad would always be their dad, no matter the orientation.

9 From Him To Her

One women stuck by her husband when he went through most of the big changes from man to women. They had three young children together and lived what the wife believed to be a normal life for many years.

After their third child was born was when her husband declared his transgender wishes. As he took the steps towards becoming a women, most people blamed the wife for "turning her husband gay." Ridiculous as this may sound, she dealt with the guilt of it all.

Eventually they divorced simply because the attraction lifted the closer her husband got to being a women. To quote her, "Remember, this is the happiest, bravest, most authentic thing they've ever done. All they are losing is a stupid shell that was keeping them imprisoned. It's understandable that they forget, on occasion, that you're losing a whole lot more."

8 Marrying A Soulmate

To marry your soulmate is nearly every person's dream, even if you're not a romantic. What about meeting your soulmate at 18, marrying them, only to realize a decade and a half down the road they actually don't truly want to be with your gender? Pretty tough blow.

For this mom, it was not as tough as it sounds. The love these soulmates had between the two of them was so strong that it not only ended their heterosexual marriage flawlessly, continued the friendship flawlessly, but also created an environment that was acceptable for the kids to grasp the situation and transition effectively.

While the kids did eventually lose their two parent home, they gained two separate parents who were happier with their chosen identities.

7 Far From Home

With two very young children in tow, one couple made the decision to move across the country. The reason for the big move was that the husband aka dad was coming out. He had realized that he could no longer hide who he was. He was going to announce to the world that he was gay. In fact, he felt more like a woman than a man.

The transformation from dad to mom #2 was not one this couple wanted to undergo in their current hometown. They wanted to start all over. Make a fresh start for them and for their kids, because this was going to be a huge change for them, too.

The move went well, and the kids responded amazing to their dad's new identity. The married couple even stayed together for the big change. Some people simply have amazing resilience!

6 For Mom And Dad

For some men, they themselves don't want to accept their own sexual orientation. It's simply too difficult to face. Some are raised to think a certain way while others just want to be like most other men with wives and children. The only problem is that they're not like those men with wives and children.

One particular man fought his feelings for nearly his entire life. The reason he fought them so intently is because he wanted so much to please his parents. In his mind, coming out as a gay man would disappoint them.

So, essentially he hid behind the mask of heterosexuality. He married a wonderful women and had two wonderful kids. He loved them all very much, but something was still wrong. He never gave his parents the chance to accept or reject the notion because they passed in their old age before he ever came out. His kids were grown and his wife had come to accept him for his true self.

5 A Marriages Between Best Friends

Some men are pressured to hide their homosexual feelings because of society, religion, or family. Other men couldn't care less what people thought. Yet, one man was a homosexual and still chose to marry a women. He wasn't hiding and he wasn't pressured into it. He wanted this.

It sounds crazy, right? Well, maybe to everyone else it seemed crazy (if anyone would have known). He loved this woman. She had been his closest, dearest, most trusted friend for most of their lives. She was his best friend through and through.

He wanted kids and he wanted to live his life with this beautiful person. Being attracted to men wasn't a strong enough pull for him to deny his best friend a wonderful life together. So, they got married and had kids and stayed married. Through all the complications, friendship and love have endured. He ended up being a wonderful dad and husband, but it never took away the gay tendencies.

4 Make Me Straight

Love and friendship are typically the reasons for walking down the aisle. Usually, children are born shortly after and a family is created. For some men, marriage is an attempt to change themselves. The union acts as a cocoon for him to internal morph into the person he feels he should be.

For one homosexual man, marriage was an attempt at making himself straight. He thought that if he had intimacy with a woman and produced children, the rest of the world would accept him as a straight man. He also thought this would change him into a straight man.

He admits that it didn't. Also, he admits that he wasn't a very good dad because of his obsession with altering himself. His attention was always drawn inward to the guilt and self-shaming he was feeling. Now that his children are nearly grown, he seems to have missed more than he paid attention to.

3 Making Babies

One MOM didn't end up exactly the same way. The couple went about it quite the same in that the husband hid his orientation from his wife for several years. Even when she did find out, she assumed he was bi not gay.

She got pregnant early on in the relationship, so intimacy was few and far between. He was thankful for this because sex with a woman wasn't exactly awesome for him. It seemed that every time they'd do the deed, she would get pregnant. So, the marriage worked out as a hideout for many years.

They raised their large family together. Once their family was mostly raised, he finally came out to her - 100% this time. They remained married for many years after that. Mostly it was just convenience, but they were both satisfied with the arrangement. They both knew it was eventually leading to a happy divorce once they each found someone new worth getting divorced for.

2 Never Coming Out

Some stories end in happy tears while others end in just tears. For one wife, the latter was the case. Her husband hid his homosexuality from his wife for decades. It wasn't until she caught him in a lie that she uncovered the reality of his lifestyle. Even then, he convinced her that he was bi not gay.

She believed it for a while, but things changed. Rather than getting divorced, they remained married. This was after having a child, of course. When the wife accepted that her husband was gay, all sexual relations ceased to exist.

They eventually got divorced in their 50s. The wife simply couldn't live like that any longer. To this day, no one truly knows the reason they were divorced. Not even the kids know. The husband (ex-husband) is still in the closet and doesn't plan on coming out, ever.

1 Untimely Announcement

Some men already know they're gay, but choose not to come out because of fear or convenience. They live their life as if they were the straightest man on the planet simply because it seemed to appease everyone at the time.

One man did exactly this. Because of his masculine features and tendencies, his wife had no idea that he was of homosexual orientation. They got married, had a family, and lived like any other family. The husband could never stop the nagging feeling that this just wasn't right for him, though.

When his kids were in high school, he decided to come out. He admits that his timing couldn't have been worse for his kids, and regrets his untimely decision. Had he been wiser he said he would have waited until at least college. Of course, they accepted him anyway. Things were just awkward for awhile.

Sources: www.nationalpost.com, www.huffingtonpost.com, www.vice.com, www.cracked.com, www.bbc.com