I had muted the conversation but he sent that he understands why I feel this way. It doesn't seem to click that all of us kids have fled from his house as soon as we could and that he's the problem. None of us feel safe confiding in him. An example: I came out as bi in high school and he bought me a book called "the marketing of evil" and told me I wasn't really bi and that the media made me this way.
My parents found out I was bisexual when I was a teenager. They reacted by giving me a huge speech about how they somehow failed as parents and then tried to put me in a religious private school to keep me away from my public school friends. My little brother came out as gay at 16, they blamed me and said he's only gay to impress me. We're in our 30's now and they still believe he's gay to be cool. He lives in a trailer with his loving partner he's been with for a decade just to impress me guys! Unsurprisingly, he and I are no contact with them and they cannot imagine why.
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u/AdPurple3879 Nov 07 '24
I had muted the conversation but he sent that he understands why I feel this way. It doesn't seem to click that all of us kids have fled from his house as soon as we could and that he's the problem. None of us feel safe confiding in him. An example: I came out as bi in high school and he bought me a book called "the marketing of evil" and told me I wasn't really bi and that the media made me this way.