I was in my bedroom. My laptop was on my bed, displaying the index page of EC. I was at my dressing table putting on some concealer and my sister walked into the room. Unfortunately I forgot the EC page was showing. She looked at my laptop and was like, 'Empty closets?' Of course I freaked. I went up to my laptop and slammed it shut. I'm so scared. I wasn't really planning on coming out to her, despite that I am getting pretty obvious. However, coming out to her is like a ticking time bomb. I don't know if she saw anything on the page that related to sexuality (although the phrase 'coming out' were written there several times). I'm hoping she might have only read the title but didn't get time to look at anything else. I'm really worried that she might confront me or something. I don't want to tell her!!!
Uh oh :S Well, your mum knows, so if your sister starts any trouble it'll soon stop pretty quickly. And as she's your sibling, your closest biological relative, she's probably not even going to start any trouble at all. She'll accept you for who you are, I'm sure. If you don't tell her eventually, she'll find out soon enough, and may be hurt that you didn't confide in her enough to tell her yourself.
Since you are already out to your mum, I would have a chat with her and get her to head your sister off at the pass with a talk about respecting other peoples privacy. Your mum could also tell her that you have told her everything you need to and that she doesn't need to go imagining anything. If your sister does ask some akward questions you can always reply that that sort of thing is personnel and that you don't wish to talk to her about it... that is what your mum is for!
Thanks louise but I'm not sure that'll be much help because my mum's in denial and talking with her about this kind of thing is really awkward. Therefore I'm not going to say anything to her unless my sister wreaks havock. If my sister questions me, I'll probably end up telling her. I really don't want to but I guess I'm going to have to eventually. *sigh*
Your right, you'll have to eventually but is now the right time? You should never push something prematurely. I can understand how you reacted by pushing down your laptop, but if anything I think that might have made your sister more curious to find out what this "empty closets" is. (and if she does stumble across this site she will read this thread and thus all your posts! eek~!)
Sheesh I have the same kind of problem. Once, I surfed a gay porn webpage and my bro accidnetly saw me doing that. That title bar said so... and fortunately he didn't know (or he pretend not to know). Then just now, he saw me exactly surfing EC. He made accurate guesses that it's a forum for LGBT community (or not). I lied to him and said that it's a relationship forum.
I doubt it'll come up again. If asked, just tell her it's a forum where you can chat with other cool folks. Lex
I hope that you aren't forced to come out to her because of an error, but if you are, I hope it goes well!!
It's funny...she hasn't mentioned it at all. You'd think at this rate I'd be out to her by now. But no...courage (or lack of it) has other ideas. Closets suck.
Maybe she's waiting for you to come out to her? If she really had a problem with your sexuality, then she would have kicked up a fuss at seeing the EC homepage. And she's already said she wouldn't mind if you did come out. Maybe just forget about it? If you can't, then maybe ask your sister to respect your privacy a bit more?
It would be bad if you were forced out by an accident - but this sounds like an insy part of you just wants out - or am I totally off the mark?? I mean, at least then it's done... I think if she had a problem with it, she'd be all over you by now. It's a bit of a predicament in a way, because if she did see, and does suspect, then she might get annoyed at you not telling her, but if she didn't see, and doesn't suspect, there's no need to come out to her prematurely.... If I were you I'd probably just wait and see (because I'm a coward), but good luck!
