Wow Gino, this is powerful. I know you write to gay men, but that is the power of your writing (and thinking and caring), it speaks beyond your audience. Thank you for making me a little more tuned in to someone else's experience, even when I can find a little of my own inside of it too.
My parents are alive, and I‘m trying to mend our relationship—which has always been strained, especially after I was outed—one tiny step at a time. But the one main thing we have in common is our fathers‘ line, "Look after your mother."
It must have been hell to feel like a stranger with your own father, and for every other gay man who had to care for their family despite feeling like that. I‘m so very sorry, Gino. 🩷
That showing up in both our stories reveals how fathers pass things down for many of us. One tiny step at a time is real progress, especially considering what happened between you after being outed.
Wow Gino, this is powerful. I know you write to gay men, but that is the power of your writing (and thinking and caring), it speaks beyond your audience. Thank you for making me a little more tuned in to someone else's experience, even when I can find a little of my own inside of it too.
Thank you, that means a lot. ☺️ Glad you found something of your own in it too.
Well, well, well. If it isn’t my own intercontinental bestie trying to steal my man.
Don‘t you try anything funny, missy🤬Gino‘s MINE!
Haha. I DO love him too, but maybe there is trim for both of us😉
Please form an orderly queue. Attention is currently being distributed on a wildly unfair and completely arbitrary basis. 😃
Careful, or we leave you for each other:)
Oh you‘re evil, T😏
Maybe. 😤
I’ll take it!!!
My parents are alive, and I‘m trying to mend our relationship—which has always been strained, especially after I was outed—one tiny step at a time. But the one main thing we have in common is our fathers‘ line, "Look after your mother."
It must have been hell to feel like a stranger with your own father, and for every other gay man who had to care for their family despite feeling like that. I‘m so very sorry, Gino. 🩷
That showing up in both our stories reveals how fathers pass things down for many of us. One tiny step at a time is real progress, especially considering what happened between you after being outed.
Personally and perhaps thankfully, my two siblings live much closer to our parents who are both in ill health.
That can be a real advantage. Proximity changes who gets assumed into the role before anyone's asked.