Thank you everyone :). I can't stop thinking about it all - after all these years it feels kind of surreal that I've told them. Looking back, it...
Hi Highlander. When I first joined this site, yours was a story I followed. You telling your wife and working out a way forward and with your...
Well I thought I would come back on here (as an update for me rather than anything else) to say that I finally told my parents! Looking at the...
Thank you all so much for the replies. They really are helping me, sometimes reaffirming my own thoughts, other times making me look at things...
Thanks littlemonster. Your words have helped. My problem is when things get a bit too tough, I just try to put the thoughts out of my mind and...
Thanks for the replies. I think I need to change something, it's been years of feeling like this. So maybe coming out to some more people is the...
Or should it happen the other way round? I've shared my story in another thread, but in summary I'm 38, have known I'm a gay woman for 20+...
Thank you Jim. Your post was exactly what I needed to hear. I do have a tendency to guess what people are thinking! Having said that, I've just...
Thanks Sig, best wishes to you too. Glad my post helped in some way. I feel like I'm in a constant circle of déjà vu. Thinking about how and...
From an outsider looking in, it seems to me the best way forward would be for you to go "no contact" with the guy. To put it bluntly, he's made...
I'm having a similar argument as the OP with myself at the moment. 38 years old and contemplating coming out to my parents. My dad is 72 and it's...
Thanks again for all your comments. My brother advised me today to just talk about my partner to my parents but not make a big deal of coming out....
Thank you for your replies :) It really is appreciated. Think I'll need quite a bit of support over the next few weeks. I think I'm most...
Well, events have rather taken over and i have decided that I need to come out to my parents by end July latest. My brother has been applying for...
Spent a long time last night reading on here and other articles online and I think it's fair to say that my fear and my feelings are internalised...
You're definitely not alone. I have known that I'm gay since I was about 9 years old, and despite some small baby steps out of the closet over the...
The second part of your post is where I am now. It's tiring and stressful and like you say, a massive weight to carry around. But at the moment...
Well I've been reading the posts on the forum and had really started to feel positive. But i feel like it's all getting on top of me again over...
Yeah maybe. I haven't really considered it that much - will look into it. But no idea where to find one with experience of LGBT issues. In fact...
Been reading lots of posts tonight, so many stories that I can relate to, it really is a help. But then I think about coming out to my parents...
