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- From: rhayden@oracle.com (Ronald Hayden)
- Subject: Re: Outed to your parents. - Advice.
- In-Reply-To: nelson@reed.edu's message of 18 Dec 92 08:35:06 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:52:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.083506.26926@reed.edu> nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) writes:
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- Most importantly, tell him to do his best to make himself independent
- of his mother. Financial independence, emotional independence.
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- It's tough to do, but it's necessary for sanity, particularly when Mom
- doesn't like that her son is queer.
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- Very good point. Another point, relevant for some people, is "Move
- out of the house".
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- Dealing with these issues while living with your parents is not a
- healthy thing. Parents exert an undue influence if the constact
- spector of being thrown out of the house (or the monitoring of who may
- visit you at the house) exists.
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