family, closeted gay stuff? 

i have a cousin i'm pretty sure has some measure of homosexuality in him (s'what i figured as i saw him grow up before we stopped seeing that part of the family) and he just announced we was dating a girl on facebook

maybe i'm projecting or something and he really is straight, or maybe he's just bi and hiding it, but i'm feeling some things right now about it

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just sucks though because we stopped seeing that part of the family because they're your stereotypical judgmental christian family full of fire and brimstone despite supposedly being a part of the same church as my parents

not that my parents aren't free of problems but they sure don't tell people they're going to hell and aren't gonna not tell close family about someone passing away like that part of the family did

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@vahnj Yikes. *nod* Is this a kind of situation where you could privately reach out to him with a 'hey is everything cool?'

Like maybe not RIGHT after he announces he's dating a girl because, awkward, but at some point?

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@vahnj (Like, to be clear, take this with many grains of salt, I have no idea how to do the dealing-with-family thing pretty much ever, and the only reason I ever figured out my brother was queer is because he forgot to log out of his yahoo groups on the family computer one time; he was lucky I used the computer next instead of my parents. ;))

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@indi to be frank i'm not comfortable reaching out to him with any kind of indicator. if i'm wrong, i just outed myself to my judgmental, shitty family.

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