How did you come out to your parents?
I was 16 when i came out to my parents, face to face in an argument with my mother.
What did you say?
One night I was arguing with my mother about how she took money out of my bank account , the argument escalated and she brought up my girlfriend in the conversation and was saying how she hated her because she was sneaky and just showed up without notice, so I tried to stop the argument so I went upstairs to talk to my dad and my mom followed me and kept saying rude things about my girlfriend and at that moment I told my mom that she was my girlfriend and we've been dating for about a year now, needless to say my mom didn't like this idea what so ever, she threatened to take me out of school, to take my phone away, my computer away, she physically beat me, threw things at me, bit my arm, she also locked me in my room and continually came in and threw things at me and continued to abuse me. The next day I went crying to my dad because I didn't want to tell him that way since I am a daddy's girl, he re- assured me that everything would be alright and that mom just couldn't handle the news all at once.
Advice
- The one thing that went well was that my dad didn't have a problem with it as much as my mom did. If i could go back, I would have waited until the appropriate time to sit down and talk to them about it instead of just letting it out in the argument.
- Today me and my mom don't get along, i don't talk to her, i avoid being around her as much as possible and i don't go home because i don't want to deal with her, as for my dad we are closer and he loves my girlfriend that i have now, and even though we don't talk about it he accepts who i am and has been a huge help in my life.
