I’ve started coming out of the closet, I’ve told two people this week that he is moving out. Needless to say I cried both times but not the sobbing I wanted to do. I kept a stiff upper lip and took lots of deep breaths.
Strangely on both occasions they both said they had gone cold all over once the news had sunk in. As yet though I haven’t told my Dad and as far as I’m aware he hasn’t told anyone, not even his sister. Neither of us are that close to our families but close enough that they will be upset, my Dad especially as he is 75 and we have got closer over the years. Distance plays a part in both our families, his live in Scotland and mine live in Plymouth, except my brother who lives 3o miles away and I haven’t seen for two years or more!
The two people I told are not even ‘friends’. One was my boss and the other my hairdresser. Maybe I was using them to practice on. People who have known us both for years are going to be very shocked as there has never been any hint that we weren’t anything but happy and content. And that’s what I thought too!
The fact that we don’t really see our ‘friends’ has made it easy to keep the situation to ourselves. I have wondered how long I could actually keep it from everyone. Months in truth as most of the people we know don’t live locally so we only ever have contact once or twice a year or it is by email and you can hide everything in an email!
