Welcome dear! It is nice to hear your voice here. And all of your perspectives. We will have much to talk about as I have struggled with some of your struggles, yet never come to understand my beliefs on all of them. I grew up in a very conservative home, and was taught very conservatively about gender roles and marraige all my life... Until I was in my senior year of highschool ready to go off to college and my dad left my mom...for a guy. Talk about confusion... I fought and struggled a lot with this... and I still struggle...maybe it will be good to hear your perspectives. I have finally learned how to have a good relationship with my dad after a lot of anger and hatred over my family being destroyed more by his leaving than his choices, but it was hurtful to me for a very long time that he had struggled so much with his own sexuality since he was in college really... and that I had been taught so conservatively and then got a bomb dropped on me... at least it felt that way.
ANYHOW. All that to say I am so thankful and blessed by your honesty of self and of feelings and thoughts and beliefs and I am so so glad you are going to join us.I will be very glad to hear your opinions on all our discussions....and I check all the threads allll the time to look for new comments so jump in! :)
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It is nice to hear your voice here. And all of your perspectives. We will have much to talk about as I have struggled with some of your struggles, yet never come to understand my beliefs on all of them.
I grew up in a very conservative home, and was taught very conservatively about gender roles and marraige all my life...
Until I was in my senior year of highschool ready to go off to college and my dad left my mom...for a guy. Talk about confusion... I fought and struggled a lot with this... and I still struggle...maybe it will be good to hear your perspectives. I have finally learned how to have a good relationship with my dad after a lot of anger and hatred over my family being destroyed more by his leaving than his choices, but it was hurtful to me for a very long time that he had struggled so much with his own sexuality since he was in college really... and that I had been taught so conservatively and then got a bomb dropped on me... at least it felt that way.
ANYHOW. All that to say I am so thankful and blessed by your honesty of self and of feelings and thoughts and beliefs and I am so so glad you are going to join us.I will be very glad to hear your opinions on all our discussions....and I check all the threads allll the time to look for new comments so jump in! :)
-sarahjean