Around this time last year, I came out to one of my best friends via fb chat because I was uncomfortable talking to her about it face to face. I told her that the reason one of my friendships came to an end was because I was actually dating the girl I was no longer friends with in secret. Me: So, I'm bisexual. Friend: Oh yeah? Me: The reasons Tracy* and I aren't friends anymore is because she cheated on me. Friend: I knew there was something more to you guys. She was way too possessive to just be your friend. Me: Yeah, you're right. Friend: Okay, thanks for telling me but it doesn't really change how I see you at all. Me: Okay good. In the end, telling her wasn't a big deal at all and she even said that when she thought back, there were signs that she just shrugged off. Why are friends so much easier to tell than family?
Because family is what you are stuck with for the rest of your life. Friendships can end. Oh and congrats on coming out, although it was a year ago
Congratulations on coming out to you friend. As the other posters have said, it is easier to come out to friends and perhaps even acquaintances, than it is to family because we only have one family. Our family is first (even if it doesn't feel like it at times) to whom we turn to for approval and for wanting to be loved.
mine was the opposite. its easier with family. friends the toughest. all my former friends now had gone through a mass extinction with me. I'm now just recreating new friends, more open now about orientation with new friends so I don't make the same mistakes. right now I really have 1 friend who I met at the lgbt center.
