Timing Is Everything: Sometimes It’s Best Not To Get Involved

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When they just barely came out

Nearly anyone in the LGBTQ+ community today can tell you they’ve had this experience. It’s so common. If you identify as someone in that community, and you have for a long time aka you’re very comfortable with who you are and you’re completely out, you deserve to be with someone who is also in that space. So meeting someone who is just now realizing they are not straight, or perhaps someone who has known for a while but either A) just came out or B) still hasn’t come out to others, will usually lead to heartbreak. As many of my non-straight friends have put it, being with someone who isn’t fully out and proud about it can feel like getting “Pushed back into the closet”, as they ask their romantic partner to be secretive about the relationship. You didn’t put in the hard work of doing the personal work and fighting to be respected and honored for who you are, just to have someone ask you to…shut that down.

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