Friday, 2 June 2017

Should I feel happy my teen came out as gay to everyone but me (the Dad)?


At family dinner last night my two teen children and their mother were all abuzz about how my 14 year-old child came out as being gay in the school inaugural LGBT support group meeting.They were all excited, and discussing the reactions of various friends, etc.The odd thing was that this was the first I was hearing about my teen being gay. This was clearly something that everyone else in my family was aware of, and now the whole school apparently knows, but no one had mentioned it to me.I just politely participated in the dinner conversation and didn't say a thing about my surprise I was just hearing about this for the first time, and in such an indirect way.Should I just take the fact my kid didn't bother to come out to me as a sign that they are so comfortable in knowing I have no problem with homosexuality (which I don't) that it doesn't seem to occur to them to mention it to me and leave it at that?We have had many many family discussions about how we feel that LGBT people should be accepted. My children even had a trans teacher in Sunday school when they were very young, who everyone loved (at a super liberal church we attend). My children feel so confident that their parents will support them as being gay that they don't even feel the need to tell me.Maybe that's a good thing. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2qOWI49

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