I finally came out to someone!

I finally came out to someone! It was the friend I had been debating telling because she was clinically depressed, and was advised against telling her until she got a little better. She has gotten a lot better, and she sort of gave me a push b/c apparently she'd figured it out in december. She knew that I didn't want to get married because I had told her that (I didn't say it just wasn't in the conventional sense, I do want to get married but not to a man) and so she asked me "when are you going to tell your parents why you don't want to get married?" So i said, "what do you mean why i don't want to get married?" and she said "because you're gay, right?" and then i told her that yes, I was and we went into a conversation about it, so that was a good thing.

She said that because I helped her so much in her depression that she wanted me to know that she was also there for me in any way I needed, and that if I needed any help about anything to just ask. It was kind of really nice even though I started crying halfway through our conversation. (I knew that was going to happen when I came out anyway)

But YAY, now I can finally say that I am out to ONE person. Hopefully there will be more to come soon.

 

Is it normal to feel a lot more stressed after coming out? I feel like i was 10 times less stressed before I came out to my friend. I want back in! I guess it all started when we started talking about the indian community we are a part of, and how I'm going to deal with that. I know it's so far down the road, but the community is really important to me.