How did your family handle it when yo...

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Registered: 09-07-2005
How did your family handle it when yo...
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Wed, 05-16-2007 - 12:53pm

How did your family handle it when you "came out"



  • Still in the "closet"
  • Disowned me
  • Accepted it
  • Accept it but do not agree with it


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Registered: 04-23-2006
Wed, 05-16-2007 - 6:25pm

Now I have to add an explaination to mine.


I voted accepted it but do not agree with it because that is how they are now.

 PPCLSIG.jpg picture by CalyD44

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Registered: 09-29-2003
Wed, 05-16-2007 - 11:08pm
I clicked accepted it.. Although some probably don't.. Thing is.... it doesn't matter to me.. Because I choose my way in life... and those that love me accept my freedom of choice as I would theirs....

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Registered: 06-24-2003
Thu, 05-17-2007 - 1:24am
I agree with you cat.
I clicked accepted it because even though they freaked at first they are very supportive now of all gay rights and people including GLBT. Mom has always had gay and lesbian friends and she accepted me pretty quickly after I told her.
All's well with my family.
But if not I just feel like you do.
Hugs,
Laurie
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Registered: 09-07-2005
Thu, 05-17-2007 - 8:30am

Caly,

I respect you so much for not backing down. Sometimes I kick myself for just backing down because my parents freaked and said, "that's not how we raised you to be." As I look back and reflect at that time in my life, it is sad to say that my parents were more worried about their friends and other family members finding out that their daughter was in a relationship with another girl. I was raised in a very religious home sent to a christian school for almost 9 years K-8. In my family it would not be accepted and I would tarnish their "good name". I really do respect you and I sometimes wish I would have had the guts to stand up to them at that point and time in my life.

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Registered: 04-23-2006
Thu, 05-17-2007 - 6:09pm

Hey Momma,


Don't beat yourself up, you were young.

 PPCLSIG.jpg picture by CalyD44