Barriers to Love

In “Barriers to Love,” psychotherapist Marina Peralta uses her own life story to address the question of bisexual identity. Set in Mexico and California, Marina reveals how early sexual abuse led to sexual confusion in her adolescence. With vivid honesty, she portrays her love affairs with both men and women, and why the person and not the gender guides her choice of partner.

In “Barriers to Love,” psychotherapist Marina Peralta uses her own life story to address the question of bisexual identity. Set in Mexico and California, Marina reveals how early sexual abuse led to sexual confusion in her adolescence. Jilted by her first boyfriend, comforted by a lesbian, and controlled by her widowed mother, she marries an emotionally detached man, and finds love with a woman. With vivid honesty, she portrays her love affairs with both men and women, and why the person and not the gender guides her choice of partner.

Marina Peralta was raised in Mexico City where she married, had three children, and owned the city’s foremost dance studio. In 1979 she immigrated to the US and studied Psychology at SDSU. She has been a practicing psychotherapist in San Diego and Los Angeles.