{"id":8276,"date":"2023-06-02T13:25:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T13:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teeviit.ee\/youth-info\/stories-of-coming-out-to-family\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T14:08:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T14:08:00","slug":"stories-of-coming-out-to-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teeviit.ee\/youth-info\/en\/stories-of-coming-out-to-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories of coming out to family"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8276\" class=\"elementor elementor-8276 elementor-8252\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-869c673 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"869c673\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fe99daf\" data-id=\"fe99daf\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-98d463c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"98d463c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">First story<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-234b386 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"234b386\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The way I came out to my mother was very odd somehow. It\u2019s like she assumed something because at one point when I had broken up with my male partner, she started making jokes and asking if I\u2019d have a girlfriend next. I don\u2019t know why she asked it because until then I had only been in relationships with men and we had never discussed relationships from this angle before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In another moment of joking around, I took my courage in both hands and told my mother that, you know, my next partner actually will be a woman. I still remember the moment I said it. It was late spring, the trees were green and the sun shone into the room and my heart was fluttering for a long time after I said it. After that sentence, my mother was quiet and then asked if I was telling the truth, to which I said yes, I was.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don\u2019t know what my mother feels in her heart, but I believe that what she displays is the reality. She\u2019s had her own journey in this regard and there have been things that she doesn\u2019t understand, but she\u2019s been very supportive. It has largely been easier on her because of my partner who she really likes. She looks at us from the sidelines and has said that she\u2019s glad I\u2019m happy. Even if it\u2019s with another woman.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7898699 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7898699\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ed603c0\" data-id=\"ed603c0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e53e03f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e53e03f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Second story<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3e83072 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3e83072\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My coming out went really smoothly somehow. I was around 25. I remember that I was sitting in the car with my father and he, as usual, was making future plans for me. And then he said: \u2019You\u2019re going to find a man, you\u2019re going to move in with each other, finish renovating the apartment&#8230;\u2019 He didn\u2019t get any further because I cut in and said: \u2018But maybe I\u2019ll find a woman?\u2019 To which my father only huffed: \u2018A woman then, what does it matter, but you\u2019re finally going to finish the renovations.\u2019 What else is there to say other than my father had his priorities straight. Still does.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-33eadcd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"33eadcd\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-84e399c\" data-id=\"84e399c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ffe425a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ffe425a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Third story<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b15258a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b15258a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My father died a few years ago and unfortunately I never had the chance to talk to him more in depth about me liking women. But based on his behaviour and the little talks we had, I can say pretty confidently that he supported me. Although I knew that my father was definitely supportive, I didn\u2019t dare to come out to him expressly. It was uncomfortable somehow. I had my mother do it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My mother and I argued for a week about who had to do it. I won and my mother told my father herself. But the day I told my father I was engaged to my partner, I saw pure joy in his face, from which I assume that I have his support. And he really liked to make daughter-in-law jokes. Every time my mother came to visit me or my brother in town, my father asked her to give his greetings to the daughters-in-law.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-da69286 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"da69286\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2b1e7b1\" data-id=\"2b1e7b1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8b1f201 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8b1f201\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Fourth story<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55f680d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"55f680d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first time I told my mother about my same-sex partner was on the phone while discussing travel plans. Since she\u2019s a mother and has a sixth sense, she recognised from my voice that I was in love and asked in Russian who he was (male \u2018\u043e\u043d\u2019). When I replied that it was \u2018\u043e\u043d\u0430\u2019 (she), there was a little pause, after which came a comical and slightly exaggerated worried question whether I really had to fly to America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My partner and mother met for the first time on Mother\u2019s Day when we were already married. Ever since that day, I\u2019ve been interpreting for them how they consider each other cute and seen how my mother hugs my wife more and giggled as my mother leaps into the room, says \u2018I love you\u2019 in her accent and then runs off again. As we were celebrating Thanksgiving in the American way, my mother said that she was grateful last year when Sarah was granted a residence permit.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4f6719e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4f6719e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1636a16\" data-id=\"1636a16\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d623ad7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d623ad7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Fifth story<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a7b4373 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a7b4373\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was most afraid to tell my grandmother about my registered partnership. I thought maybe she wouldn\u2019t understand. And so I kept putting it off until the moment I decided I wouldn\u2019t tell her anything at all. My fear had simply grown so big.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One day, however, I got a call from my brother who said he wanted to talk to me. So my partner and I set off to my brother\u2019s, who gave us a long lecture that we needed to tell our grandmother too. I threw up my hands and told my brother that he has to tell her himself then because I\u2019d probably faint. This wasn\u2019t a problem for him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One day he went to our grandmother\u2019s and gave it to her straight that I was a lesbian and my flatmate was actually my partner. To which my grandmother replied that she may be old, but she\u2019s not stupid. She figured it out a long time ago and she\u2019s okay with it as long as we don\u2019t get married. My brother then decided not to immediately mention the registered partnership. But around 20 minutes later he told her about that as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although this was probably the moment that required the most adjustment for my grandmother, she was okay with that too. And she asked my brother to tell us that we were cowards and if we wanted her to come to our registration then we\u2019d have to invite her ourselves, in person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I had no choice but to go to grandmother\u2019s one day and invite her to our day. Of course she agreed to come, but at the door she shouted after me: \u2018Both of you are highly educated women, but you send your brother to pull your chestnuts out of the fire, you cowards!\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7118ad1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7118ad1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Sixth story<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-819e49f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"819e49f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My coming out to my family happened quite randomly. I guess everyone actually realised back when I had my first boyfriend that he wasn\u2019t just an acquaintance, but there was no public introduction. However, my second partner and I have a tradition of sending postcards home when travelling. So, on another trip abroad, we sent home a postcard in which, in addition to the weather, we described our feelings quite openly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, it arrived before we did and my grandmother who was looking after the home that time found the card. Her only comment was: \u2018I\u2019m aware.\u2019 From then on, joint birthdays, Christmas celebrations and everything else were an absolutely natural part of our relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">True, after coming out publicly and a bit of media hype regarding an LGBTI event I organised, my other grandmother did have an issue. To her question about how she was supposed to get bread from the store now, I replied quite rationally and coldly, \u2018the same way as before\u2019. She did. And still does.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-277eaed elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"277eaed\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9c1f92e\" data-id=\"9c1f92e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cadbc63 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"cadbc63\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Seventh story<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-673da40 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"673da40\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I told my mother about my first serious partner, I was quite nervous. I started talking about it indirectly and of course there were tears. My mother\u2019s face fell more and more the further I got with my speech. While I kept talking, I thought, oh my goodness, this cannot end well. When I eventually said that I was living with someone and she was a woman, she exclaimed: \u2018Thank God! I thought you were dying! You really need to work on your storytelling skills.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My parents have repeatedly said that they\u2019re happy when I\u2019m happy. And I am. They\u2019ve had their journey, but so have I. As a result, our relationship is much closer and more open.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-15964ee elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"15964ee\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b47569f\" data-id=\"b47569f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b5e326e elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"b5e326e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e2be75d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e2be75d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The article was written based on the website of the <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lgbt.ee\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Estonian LGBT Association<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Estonian LGBT Association is a non-profit organisation working for the benefit of LGBT+ people (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people and people of other types of sexual and gender identities and expression).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First story The way I came out to my mother was very odd somehow. It\u2019s like she assumed something because at one point when I had broken up with my male partner, she started making jokes and asking if I\u2019d have a girlfriend next. 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