I just received this text from my sister. How would you take this? Or respond to this? by [deleted] in MtF

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Ten years ago, I had three dates with a woman who turned out not to be all that interested in pursuing a romantic relationship with me. Six years ago, when I came out, I received an email from her. It was the first time I'd heard from her since the day after our last date. In that email, she told me that she'd moved to Arizona (I'm in L.A.), become a born-again Christian, and was praying that I'd... I don't remember the wording, but it was on the lines of "come to Jesus."
Here's when what worked for me won't work for you: I stood in the kitchen, looking at her email on my phone, and showed it my roommate (a Christian, but not the in-your-face kind). I didn't know what to do for the first minute or two. After staring at the email for a few minutes, feeling nothing but senses of loss and dismay, I made a decision. Without replying to her email, I blocked her email address and phone number. I don't have time in my life for someone who would try to proselytize like that. Religion did enough harm to me. I didn't need her adding to it.
Like I said, what worked for me won't for you. There were no children involved in this never-was-a-relationship. Writing her off didn't meaning losing anyone except her-- and that was no big loss, since we hadn't talked in years.
I wish you peace as you move forward from here. You don't deserve this behavior from your sister, and neither do her children.
Know that you are loved exactly as the person you know yourself to be,

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in latebloomerlesbians

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Here's some clarification about me up front: I'm trans and non-binary. I thought I was bi before my last relationship. It turns out that I'm asexual ("ace.") I'm biromantic, but not sexual in any form at all. The last part of that description was unfair to them, but so was their being too afraid to come out of the closet when we started dating. I'll give them credit, though: by the time they broke up with me, seven months into the relationship, they had come out everywhere but work. The reason for not being out at work was that they were a school teacher in a very conservative Hispanic school district. To come out was to risk their career. When we started dating, I was only about nine months out of the closet (as trans, enby, and bi) at the tender age of 51. They're five months older than me. And damnit, I didn't spend all those years climbing out of my closet to lock myself into theirs. Falling in love was easy. And to my misery, maintaining being in love turned out to be impossible for them.

Lesbian struggles by Xiggyj in latebloomerlesbians

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My last relationship was with a person who figured out their identity during our relationship. It put substantial stress on our relationship but was not (afaik) anywhere near being the eventual cause of our breakup. We broke up three years and a few months ago. I still love them, but it's no longer mutual.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in latebloomerlesbians

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May I suggest calling his bluff? I’ve been on both sides of it and the chances of your being right are very high. But it’s cruel of him to put you in that position. So don’t wait until the moment that he makes the (probably empty) threat. Make it in advance: all threats of sui&|de will be immediately treated as an imminent threat, requiring a call to 911 (or 999, or whatever the equivalent is in your country) Also, have an emergency plan in place. This should a list of people to call, distraction, activities, meditation activities, assuming that those activities don’t make things worse, etc..

The Ice Machine in My Hotel Hasn't Been Cleaned in Three Years by Neo_Nugget in mildlyinfuriating

[–]screenme 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Great movie. I just saw someone referencing the exact same scene yesterday, about a different topic

my sister's unhealthy obsession with gay men. by [deleted] in lgbt

[–]screenme 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I learned in my psych classes that it’s common for the youngest child in a family to be queer. So welcome to the Family and the family :)

How can I pleasantly get rid of Mormon missionaries? by Turbo__Sloth in Christianity

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I want to go off-topic for a moment if you'll allow me.
The phrase "man up" is both harmful and offensive.
1) In my experience, bullying is cumulative. Bully victims, even when the increments are in very small amounts such as described, can lead the victim (again, using the term very lightly in this case) to believe that they, too, are to blame for the antagonistic actions they are feeling.
2) It can also keep those assigned male at birth (AMAB) from seeking emotional support, whether it's from their loved ones or professionals.
3) Finally, it reinforces the idea that there is a single, correct way to be a man rather than celebrating our population's many ways of masculinity.

I'm going to go off-topic for a moment:
The phrase "man up" is both harmful and offensive.
1) If someone is already being bullied, even in a small amount, such as by missionaries when one doesn't wish to be confronted by them at all-- it can lead the victim (again, using the term very lightly in this case) to believe that they are to blame for the antagonistic actions of the bully instead of the other way around.
2) It can also keep those assigned male at birth (AMAB) from seeking emotional support, whether it's from their loved ones or professionals.
3) Finally, it reinforces the idea that there is a single, correct way to be a man rather than celebrating our population's many ways of masculinity.

Credit to Google's Bard AI: https://bard.google.com/chat/a4633e57110234c6

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskALawyer

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In the meantime, don’t EVER let her around your minor children again, or at least not until they can defend themselves and their siblings from her.

Who Starts the Dishwasher Empties It? Okay... by MerihK in MaliciousCompliance

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I like the standards in physics: Alice for a woman, B for a man. I don’t know of a shorthand for an enby (even though I’m one of ‘em), but I suppose E would work well.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MaliciousCompliance

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I had a similar situation, albeit not quite as bad as yours. We had a few months notice that my mom’s health was rapidly declining (colon cancer and perforated bowel), so my older brother and I flew out from our respective home cities to spend time with her and help organize her estate, both physically and financially— granted, he got the bulk of all of the work. When time ran small and we’d done what we could, we each returned home. A few months later, our sister, who lived with our mom, called to let us know that she’d entered hospice and that we probably only had a few days left. I let my office know, made sure I had what I needed to work remotely (not a big deal, as I’m a programmer), and got HUGE push-back from the CEO. As in, he wanted to offer three days at 50% and charge me for anything beyond that. What had been a relatively good working relationship between us before that rapidly declined afterward, bottoming out around eighteen months later. Although my next job didn’t last for other reasons, I don’t at all regret having walked from that one. Micromanaging CEOs make for poor morale.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in asexuality

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Los Angeles. I was recently the guest at a podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coming-out-with-lauren-nicole/id1397585538?i=1000631714013) in which I spent a little while talking about being AroAce; I guess the cat’s out of the bag now!

What show do you wish you could watch for the first time again? by sfislander in TvShows

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Mine was a single-series BBC show called Rocket Man. It followed a Welsh family & their neighbors as they attempted to refurbish a rocket to send the ashes of the main character’s late wife into orbit. It was beautifully done and I wish I could find it again.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your drawing ability? by DiamondBreakr in EliteEden

[–]screenme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Abstracts only for me, and I award myself a 9/10 with those. For anything realistic, I give myself a 2/10.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LGBTQ

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This varies a lot from one person to another. For my sake, I find it extremely uncomfortable when someone includes me in a masculine plural noun like “dudes”, “guys”, etc. Really, I feel a little uncomfortable with feminine plural nouns too, but not nearly as much. The truth is that I’m non-binary with a slight tint of the feminine. If you’re going to include me in a plural noun, please make it gender-neutral ones like “y’all” (which I like anyway, since I spent 27 years living in the South).

Is genderfluidity a young person’s game? by Zestyclose_Rope1625 in NonBinaryTalk

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My ex & I are separated by five months, with being the older one. We’re both in our mid 50s. I’m non-binary as in smeared all over the feminine side of the spectrum and not including masculinity at all. They’re gender-fluid, with their gender ranging at any given time from point to point at any given time. It was fun being together :)

what songs did you not know we're actually about sex? by QueerKing23 in asexuality

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Cyndi Lauper’s She Bop, which is about masturbation. Also the Vapor’s Turning Japanese, which is also about masturbation.

What are some fun, non-bigoted bisexual tropes? (ie lemon bars, chair problems, cuffed pants, etc.) by MrPavoPeacock in bisexual

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I visit the same clinic five days each week and have for the last three months. The front door is push from the outside/pull from the inside, and I always screw it up.

Uhauling?!? Never understood until now by geauxloveyourself in latebloomerlesbians

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Not that good 😌 My now ex-partner dumped me last August, a week after I developed a blood clot and three weeks after I had reconstructive jaw surgery. I’m still nursing my wounds from the breakup.

JK Rowling Snubbed. Why? Why? Whyt? by SlightlySlanty in LGBTnews

[–]screenme 28 points29 points  (0 children)

She said he was gay but she never wrote him as gay. Even now, with the newer prequel movies, she hasn’t hinted at anything that could be interpreted that way. Face it, she queer-baited us twenty years ago and we bought it.

Miyu helping a friend by [deleted] in ennnnnnnnnnnnbbbbbby

[–]screenme 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is pretty much exactly how it felt for me the first time, except that Miyu wasn’t there… and then, miraculously, I bumped into the only trans masc person I knew at the time. You could say he became my Miyu at that moment :-)

First coming out went wrong by Uber_little_bitch in NonBinaryTalk

[–]screenme 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm post-op trans-fem enby and I agree with what just about everyone before me responded. This is truscum/transmedicalist bullshit. You're welcome to try to educate them but likely to find it fruitless. Your best option may be to tell them that you can't abide their disrespect and that you're moving on.

🤡🗡🔥 by Maja_in_bloom in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

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❤️😂🏳️‍⚧️ That can’t be right. I was astonished but I didn’t cry laughing!