My mom broke the news to my 16yo little sister, whose immediate reaction was to start crying and she said, “I can’t imagine how lonely that’s been for him for so long.” The guy and I broke up some time after that, but the photo still means a lot to me to this day, just for what it represented. I have a photo of him and my dad chatting in front of the grill with beers in their hands. Two weeks later they invited my boyfriend at the time to a family cookout. Definitely not the reaction I expected or had steeled myself for. And that’s that.” She kept eating her salad. We’re probably going to disagree on some of those things but that’s not my job. “Look, that’s between you and God, or whatever you believe in.
At 26, I took my mother out to dinner and finally worked up the courage to tell her as she ate her salad. I came from a politically conservative, Christian, “religious right” type of household.
