i came out to my family today

i have come to a point in my life where i have accepted myself for who i am and keeping apart of myself hidden from my family has become to much of a emotional effort that i do not want to carry anymore i have come to a point that i am not willing to accept the limitations of not being fully out puts on relationships where i have to lie or hide the relationship when my family comes to visit going away to school has given me the opportunity to see things in a different way and the freedom to be myself i have slowly over the years come out to my friends i have made here at school some have stayed as friends some have not i was lucky enough to have made one close friend that friendship is going on four years and it turned out that he was gay also
i called my mom today to see how things where going and trying to figure out the best way to tell her i was gay i knew the longer i waited the better chance i would not tell her so in the middle of our conversation i told her i was gay at first i thought she did not hear me she keep on talking when she finished telling me everything they had done today she told me that her & my dad had already thought i was gay that everything was going to be ok that they would support me and they loved me the rest of my family i sent emails telling them it was probably was not the best way to go about it i have received a few emails back some are accepting some are down right nasty but i did not do this for them i did this for me this was something i needed to do for myself the relief i feel right now makes it all worth it