Sooner or later our young person will become curious about the opposite sex. Adolescence and raging hormones will do that to you. But what happens if their curiosity leans more towards same sex, transgender, bi-sexual experiences? How do you deal with that?
Simple. Truthfully assess what is most important to you; your relationship with your young person or the beliefs that you hold for them.
Following on from the previous post, we know that forcing an identity on a young person does not work. They will rebel and resent you for it. If we make the same mistake with their sexual orientation and identity, we will loose them for certain.
Young people crave so desperately, the sense of belonging and acceptance. Sometimes the hardest place to get that is in the family so many will willingly mask who they really are, carry the pain and dejection of having to pretend they are someone they are not and sacrifice their own true happiness because the fear of disappointment or being ostracized; and instead they live a double life.
This is what many of them are willing to sacrifice for the love of their family. My question is, what is the family willing to sacrifice for the love of their young person?
I am fully aware that this is a highly sensitive not to mention controversial topic and not all will agree with such a plain explanation and so I leave it to you to decide what is more important?
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