I had an experience with a lesbian years ago that made me rethink how I saw lesbians. When I 1st met her, my gut told me it was gonna turn sexual and it did. She was smoking. I felt like she secretly liked me sexually, but was super conflicted. She asked me sexually charged questions then told me to talk about sex elsewhere lol. I was shocked because i never thought a lesbian would like a man. We went through an identity crisis. We felt good sexually fantasizing about each other, but terrible because she was married. I think she also felt awful for liking men which might be why she avoided me. I felt she was partially attracted to me because i was 1 of the few straight men who supported her lifestyle. Many men only love lesbians when they're having sex. I could tell she didn't know how to cope with her attraction to me. She likely questioned her identity as a lesbian and feared judgement from the LGBT community along with the straight community. She felt straight people would laugh at her and say "See! You were straight all along!" Her wife would be impacted the most by this. I felt like i caused her to suffer so much to where it was too painful to remain friends. Nonetheless, I never tried to change her. I never tried to turn her into a straight woman or force her to leave her wife. To me, she would always be a lesbian regardless of what people say.