For Pride Month, Anna Richardson is taking on the role of one of Metro's Agony Aunts 🏳️🌈 She's here to give advice on telling your family about your partner 👇
With that in mind, let’s begin with your family – how lucky, how fortunate, how supported you must feel to have your relatives accept you for who you are. Our family can be a source of safety or instability, so I’m relieved to hear that you feel secure with them – don’t underestimate the power of that.
They’ve accepted you, so why wouldn’t they accept your girlfriend? What is it about the act of introducing her to the people who love you the most that fills you with anxiety? And that’s what makes me curious about how you may feel about yourself. I just wonder whether there’s a smidgen of internalised homophobia that you may be experiencing – in other words, a fear that, despite being happy as a gay person, there’s a ‘correct way to be’ and you fear your relationship is not measuring up to that in a heteronormative society. There’s only one way to find out though.
So, my advice would be to seek out a group of like-minded people who can support and advise you on the anxiety you’re feeling at this juncture in your life. Try
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