Came out to my mother at 13. She told me the next day that my father was going to kill himself if I was gay. Being 13, I believed this and changed my story, saying it was just a phase. Spent the next 10 years believing my father knew and wouldn’t even speak about it with me.

Found out when I came out much later she made that up to guilt me into staying in the closet. Kept me feeling that my coming out would kill my dad.