How are your relationships with your parents?

[TuckandStuiesMom]

GREAT STORY!!! That's the way family life oughta be. Hope we see more of you here.

I am so lucky. My parents are great. They were always doing things with me and my brother when we were younger, like bike rides and camping trips. I had a fantastic childhood.
I desperately tried to come out to them, but I wasn’t brave enough. I thought it might change the way they were with me. I went away travelling for a year and spent hours on my mums bed before I went just talking. I so wanted to say “I’m Gay”, but it just wouldn’t come out. All I wanted was for her to ask me.
My year away was the most amazing time of my life and I well and truly came out to myself. When I returned home my parents had booked a family holiday to Disney and it coincided with Gay Days (they didn’t know).
It turned into the best holiday ever as I was in Pleasure Island with my brother, surrounded by gay people and I turned to him and said “ask me”, he knew exactly what I was referring to and asked me if I was Gay. It was such a relief to finally tell a family member and he gave me a big hug and bought a shot of raspberry vodka for us to celebrate! I told him not to tell my parents as I would do it the next day.
I was woken up the next morning with my father waking me up by saying “so I hear your gay” and he gave me a big hug and told me to hurry up as we were running late. My mum didn’t have a chance to talk to me right there, but we had a good chat in Animal Kingdom and she gave me a big hug as well.
Both my parents have been so great and we all laugh now about how I wanted to come out before I went away. My mother wanted to ask me, but was afraid I would have been offended if she had.
Since then I have found my partner and they adore him as if he was their own son. They have been so accepting and I couldn’t have wished for better.
My mum is already planning my wedding in Disney, even though I’m not engaged yet!

 

[jharrowell]

I'm so sorry about your mum!
Mine is just barely beginning her battle with breast cancer.

It was hard as I had to play principal carerer but that was a while ago now and as they say, time heals all wounds.

I imagine your dad will be sorry one of these days. I hope you have friends/relatives/a partner to share your life!

Possibly, but I have a loving partner, good friends (both real and virtual), and an amazing sister, who after seeing my "bravery" (for want of a better word) came out herself.

So I definately can't complain. (Okay, I can and will at length, but there's lots of people worse off than I)

 

[RemixBoyNJ]

I've never been in Fritz ... but I have been in that dumpster!

As for the rest of you -
Stop being babies - I could have called in the big guns!

Dr. Laura
She would "fix" our rainbow wagons!

that was the last image i needed to start off my day..

Im not hungry any more..LOL

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

OMG! <runs fer the hills...>​

Right behind you!
(And we don't even HAVE rainbow wagons! )

 

[TuckandStuiesMom]

Right behind you!
(And we don't even HAVE rainbow wagons! )

(whispering) I don't think it matters -- I'm sure there is something about our non-rainbow wagons that still needs fixin'...

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

(whispering) I don't think it matters -- I'm sure there is something about our non-rainbow wagons that still needs fixin'...

My wagon will be just FINE as long as the quacks stay away from it!

 

[OrlandoMike]

Hey everyone....

Don't forget, Mothers Day is this Sunday!

 

[rpmdfw]

(whispering) I don't think it matters -- I'm sure there is something about our non-rainbow wagons that still needs fixin'...

Don't you believe it!

I think both of you ladies' wagons are just fine!

 

[TuckandStuiesMom]

Don't you believe it!

I think both of you ladies' wagons are just fine!

Awwwwwww...

 

[Stitch'sGlitch]

I am really lucky...my parents are amazing!!

My mom and dad are both great!! My mom made sure that we were taken care of and that I made it to every practice, game, and event...and still had time to get on me about not doing homework. She was also the one to get me hooked on Disney. I live miles away now, but still try and call a couple times a week, lately a lot of the talk has been Disney planning. I used to make fun of her about all her eccentricities, the laminated Disney cheat sheet, all the medicines you could imagine, splitting our clothes into four suitcases so if one suitcase got lost no one was without clothes. Jump ahead 10 years later, I am making my first Disney cheat sheet, making sure to pick up pepto chewables, and am doing carry-on only.

My biological father hasn't been around for years, but I would never consider him my dad. He bailed on my mom and I for his second wife and decided that he it would be easier to sign away all his rights to me. My dad adopted me the same day. He has been there through it all, I actually still have the first stuffed animal he bought me, it was a pongo dog that went everywhere with me. I have always been a firm beliver that blood doesn't make you family, love does.

I knew my parents were pretty open minded, but was still scared out of mind to come out to them. My mom asked one day why my phone bill showed so many calls to my DW (gf at the time)...."umm she's my best friend" (panicked). After 20 minutes of thinking and being harrased by co-workers I called her back.
"So the reason there are so many calls is because she is my gf"...
"ok"
"that means i'm gay"
"ok...we already knew that"
The next Disney trip we went on they invited my DW to go with us to Disney, it was the first time she had ever been. They have been so accepting and understanding.

 

[wallyb]

Don't you believe it!
I think both of you ladies' wagons are just fine!

Hey, keep your eyes on the road ... and off their wagons!

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Don't you believe it!

I think both of you ladies' wagons are just fine!

Thank you!
(I know you are just saying that so I will bring you take-out from Hunky's, but that's OK. )

 

[rpmdfw]

Thank you!
(I know you are just saying that so I will bring you take-out from Hunky's, but that's OK. )

Hey, if it works, it works!

 

[rpmdfw]

Hey everyone....

Don't forget, Mothers Day is this Sunday!

My mom will actually be coming into town next Thursday to join us for our Disney Planning Session, so we're taking her to Tea at the Grand Floridian for a delayed Mother's Day celebration. Can't wait!

 

[wallyb]

Thank you!
(I know you are just saying that so I will bring you take-out from Hunky's, but that's OK. )

Hey I like hunks too!
I had no Idea you could get them as take out!
I'll have a Mario Lopez with special sauce
and a side of Tom Welling.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Hey I like hunks too!
I had no Idea you could get them as take out!
I'll have a Mario Lopez with special sauce
and a side of Tom Welling.

Sorry. No Hunky's for you, Disciple of Dr.'s Phil & Laura.