05-24-2015, 09:19 PM
(05-24-2015, 05:33 PM)blueberryhill Wrote: That is so sad! We have come a long way re equal rights for all....but we still have plenty of haters, so the fight continues. I do hope your sibling has since been accepted by the family and has found some inner peace in being who he/she was meant to be. I have talked before about the young man who killed himself because he was gay back in the 80's (he was in my caseload).
BBH, Wish I could say things worked out, but they didn't. Our parents were post WW1 babies born in rural America. They both could not deal with my brother, thinking that his being gay required blame to be placed on someone. This caused them to argue and divorce after dad was snared by a woman who promised him "the son he never had". Each still wanted to blame someone so they continued to blame my brother. I guess it made them feel better and resulted in him really being hurt because he couldn't change a reality no matter how hard he tried.