ProudParenting.com - coming out - Comments

Congrats on coming out to your daughter!

juju1030 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:06:04 -0700

Coming out to our kids can be a very difficult thing. It was something that I struggled with telling or not telling for a long time, but after I did tell my kids they were so much more supportive then I ever imagined they could be!

It is great to hear that your ex-wife is supportive to your daughters wishes - that is so important.

I do not have a teen-age daughter, but I do have a 15 year old son that transitioned quite well through my "coming out". If you would like for your daughter to talk with him I am sure he would be very happy to.

Good Luck :)

You can breathe a sigh of relief...

mikeandmichael — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:53:58 -0700

for now. Your daughter knows and accepts you. This is great news. She also wants to stay with you. This, too, is great news. I hope the discussions you have with your other kids is also as positive.

Good luck with your ex-wife. I hope that she understands the importance of having you in your kids' lives.

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Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:07:38 -0700

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Just some humble advice

Radical_Dad — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:23:31 -0700

Tyler,

Congratulations on coming out to someone. The first time is probably the most tough - and it comes with the consequences you're experiencing.

Now it's time for self-preservation. Don't tell any more people for awhile. Keep your head down and your chin up. You should get use to looking over your shoulder until you are able to live on your own - away from negative influences.

Keep in mind - millions of happy gay men and women have come from stifling environments, like the one you're in now. You'll eventually leave home and create a life for yourself. A life that makes YOU happy.

Take care of yourself - and you'll do fine!

Good for you Tyler, in

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:08:25 -0700

Good for you Tyler, in coming out...It is hard, even as an adult....Alot of people hide for years,they marry and create the expected life, but are not happy...So my praise goes out to you for being who makes you happy, and you are a better man for being honest with yourself and your family....I am 33yrs old and with a woman now after being married for 12yrs and I still get looks, talked about in my own family. It isn't easy, but inside it makes me so much happier, and for my kids too....
Good luck,
Eileen
Plymouth, MA

14 year old gay kid

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:22:29 -0700

it was extremely hard time for me last year. if people say coming out is easy well they're liars. the first person i ever told was my dear friend angela. and i think the only reason i told her is b.c before she said that a gay guy thought i was hot. then i came out to the other people i trusted. it was horrible not one of them belived me and they all told me that there was no way i could ever be gay. i was extremely meloncholy. it was just basically depressing. but after i finnally got comfortable with myself and other people started to belive me i decided to tell my mom. i trusted her and thought i owed it to her to tell her since after all she was my mother. but alas i was betrayed she went behind my back and told my father that i was gay!!!!!!
now to understand how devastating that was you have to first understand my dad. hes soooooooo predujice. he says fag all the time and hes roman catholic along with most of the rest of my family.
i was told im physco and need to see some one. and that im to young to say that. and that if i tell everybody (which everybody in my school had already known) ill be marked with a stigma.
so i once again went through a long state of depression.so that is my story started last year in fall to now a year later. while those horrible voices of being unaccepted ring in my ear i must be strong

THE END
-tyler
from johnstown