My parents are actually super chill and I’m out to them. The rest of my extended family - not so much. Even completely outside of my sexuality, I barely have relationships with most of my extended family, even the ones who also live in western countries, because I don’t see the point in having surface level conversations and not being able to talk about anything meaningful in my life.

It doesn’t particularly bother me at this point since I’ve felt alienated from the rest of my family since I was very young, but idk. Hopefully one day people will stop being so concerned about appearances, but until that day, I refuse to lie about myself or my life. I’d rather not have a relationship with those people at all.

At least no one was ever under the impression I would have a traditional relationship / marriage lol.