The coming out thread - Take II

[adidasss]

Originally Posted by Marie Monday

Damn adi your family sounds so problematic, it must have been horrible growing up in that environment. Luckily you created a new family for yourself by finding love, I guess

Yeah, it wasn't a nice childhood, mostly because my father has anger management issues, homophobia was not my major concern in those times. But it's worse if one of your parents is an alcoholic, which is what my niece and nephew are going through. You would think that if you go through a rather traumatic childhood you would make sure your own kids don't go through something similar. But some people just have problems I guess (my brother was also on the front line in the war so I guess that probably screwed him up somewhat and contributed to his alcoholism, aside from having a bipolar wife and a dysfunctional marriage).

Javier (my boyfriend) is quite surprised how relatively normal I turned out compared to the rest of my family.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by adidasss

Javier (my boyfriend) is quite surprised how relatively normal I turned out compared to the rest of my family.

Tbf you're on an internet forum.

[Marie Monday]

Originally Posted by adidasss

Yeah, it wasn't a nice childhood, mostly because my father has anger management issues, homophobia was not my major concern in those times. But it's worse if one of your parents is an alcoholic, which is what my niece and nephew are going through. You would think that if you go through a rather traumatic childhood you would make sure your own kids don't go through something similar. But some people just have problems I guess (my brother was also on the front line in the war so I guess that probably screwed him up somewhat and contributed to his alcoholism, aside from having a bipolar wife and a dysfunctional marriage).

Javier (my boyfriend) is quite surprised how relatively normal I turned out compared to the rest of my family.

It seems like people generally either tend to perpetuate their traumas, or do the opposite. It's a marvellous achievement to turn out ok after living through childhood issues like that