Quarantine has
sent people around the world scrambling back to their childhood homes, and for
one UK family, it's bringing them closer together. The tight quarters revealed
to one father that his son is gay, though the 20-year-old hasn't come out to
him yet. He took to Reddit to get opinions on the best way to broach the
awkward subject.
"My son and his 'friend' are a couple. How do I let them
know it's okay?" asks the now-viral post that has nearly 50,000
upvotes at the time of writing.
The father is
refreshingly loving and wholesome when it comes to his relationship with his
son.
"My boy
is 20 years old. He's absolutely my pride and joy, and there is nothing he
could do that would ever make me love him less," he begins, sharing the
lengthy story of how he got sober to save his son from an abusive household.
"He's everything a man could want his son to be; he's uniquely kind and
fiercely loyal, he's unflinchingly brave, he's incredibly generous and, despite
the horrors he suffered as a child, he's unfailingly positive and sunny to the
last."
The son left
for college a few years ago, but with the ongoing global pandemic shutting down
schools around the world, he's come home and brought his displaced roommate
with him.
Except it's
been becoming more and more clear to the father that they are more than just
roommates.
He explains:
"They've
been back at mine for about six weeks now. They think they're being subtle I
know, but I've caught them doing coupley things on several occasions now. The
'friend' has slipped up a couple of times and called my son 'babe' and
'sweetie' in front of me, which I pretended not to notice for the sake of
saving embarrassment. There have been nights where we'll be watching a film
with the lights off and, thinking I can't see, my son will have his arm around
the 'friend.' One day I walked into the lounge and I'm positive they'd just
been kissing and were trying to cover it, though I admit I have no confirmation
on that one. The most solid evidence, however, came a few mornings ago. I get
up very early to go for runs in the morning (hence why I'm making a Reddit post
at five in the morning haha). As far as I was told, my son was sleeping in his
childhood room and his 'friend' was in the guest room. I don't know what
possessed me to do so, but on Tuesday morning I cracked my son's door open to
check on him like I used to when he was a kid. Lo and behold, they're both
asleep, snuggled up together, in my son's bed. That's more or less solidified
for me that they're together. I didn't say anything, just shut the door and
went for my run, and I haven't mentioned it to them yet.
What I want
advice on is this; how do I let my son and his boyfriend know that I'm okay
with them being a couple and they don't have to feel like they have to sneak
around in my house? I want them to be comfortable here and I want them to know
I support them both no matter what. Or is that not a good idea? Am I better off
leaving it alone and waiting until they tell me themselves, if they ever do? I
obviously don't want to force either of them out of the closet, but at the same
time I hate feeling as if they feel like they're being
forced into the closet in my house. What's my best course of action
here??"
The earnest
question renewed Reddit's faith in humanity.
"With all
the mess that's going around it's great having people like you around OP, you
make life worth it," one commenter wrote.
Most replies
encouraged the dad to let his son now, subtly, that he's loved and accepted no
matter what, and it looks like he followed that advice.
According
to PinkNews,
the father updated the story. "He figured I knew but neither of us wanted
to make the first move cause we didn’t want to make it awkward for the
other."
We love a
happy ending!
SOURCE: PRIDE DOT COM
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