When I mustered up my courage to come out of the closet to my mother, not as a lesbian, but as bisexual, dating another girl at the time (because we had both fallen in love with the same guy; it was complicated), my mother's reaction was accepting of me as a person but utterly and painfully clueless. She said that she knew that boys my age were cretins, but she hoped that I would not give up on them completely. I was stunned, and without words. Hadn't I just sat her down and carefully told her that I was bisexual?!
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When I mustered up my courage to come out of the closet to my mother, not as a lesbian, but as bisexual, dating another girl at the time (because we had both fallen in love with the same guy; it was complicated), my mother's reaction was accepting of me as a person but utterly and painfully clueless. She said that she knew that boys my age were cretins, but she hoped that I would not give up on them completely. I was stunned, and without words. Hadn't I just sat her down and carefully told her that I was bisexual?!