I've arranged to catch up with my best friend tomorrow and she knows I have something to tell her. I'm freaking out. And super excited. I'm ready for this. She's going to be the second person to know (not including the peeps at the LGBT centre in my city and the queer room at uni) but the first person knows only because the topic came up and I just blurted it out. I know my friend that I'm telling tomorrow will be fine with it and I can't get out of telling her, since she knows that something's up. There's not really any point to this post, except that I felt like sharing and rambling and I'm trying to calm my nerves. But this whole process of realising I'm gay has been a whole mess of nerves and anxiety among other things, so, logically, this can't be any worse.
You seem to be as ready as possible, and don't really need any advice, so I'm just gonna wish you good luck drop us a message to say how it went!
And it's done. She reacted as expected and was totally cool with it, moreso than the first one I told. It was rather anticlimactic, really. But I am insanely happy at the moment (!)
Great news! Even when you know someone is going to react positively, it's still good when it happens. Congrats.
Well done! That must feel great! I spent a day with my bestie last weekend and I was planning on telling her as I really need someone to talk to. I know she's not 100% comfortable with the notion of being gay but we have a few gay male and female friends and she doesn't treat them any differently to anyone else. Anyway over lunch she was showing me some pics of her sisters friends lesbian wedding the weekend before, so I was going to go for it. But she said she didn't agree with gay marriage and didn't understand how people like the same sex etc. so I chickened out!
Thanks, everyone Mocha, I'm sorry to hear about your friend's...ignorance. That must have been rather discouraging Better luck next time. Perhaps there's another friend you can tell first?
