i understand it deeply when i thought i was bi i was in a loving happy relationship with a man and i often thought to myself why would i ever come out why would i ever need to come out i don't want to stir the pot i don't want to risk upsetting anybody why risk other people's comfort why risk my relationships with other people when i'm already living a straight passing life isn't that good enough and i was wrong i was wrong it's one thing to be a minor and to be living in your parents household and for your own safety and well-being to not be able to come out i totally understand that just know that in the future you'll be able to build a life for yourself where you can be who you are where you can live under your own roof under your own rules where you can have your own community and those people are going to accept you for who you are and i just hope that if you ever do feel like you want to come out that you can do that and you feel like you are valid enough to do that because you're not a fake queer if you are a part of the queer community coming out and sharing yourself with the queer community is not doing harm to the queer community and don't listen to any gatekeeping garbage trucks that tell you otherwise you are welcome here as for the internalized homophobia yeah a lot of us have that too have you ever considered therapy oh hey that's a great transition to our sponsor better help if there is something interfering with your happiness interfering with you achieving your personal goals interfering with you living your life as your authentic self better help might be something you want to check out this is an online counseling service where you get matched based on your needs with your own licensed professional therapist and this is not a crisis line it's not self-help this is professional counseling done securely online and when you sign up you can start talking to your counselor within NUMBER_TOKEN hours the service is available worldwide there are counselors that fit a wide variety of needs plus counseling through better help is often more affordable than traditional face-to-face in-person counseling and they do offer financial aid to those who need it i have personally used better help and have benefited from my relationship with my counselor on there plus i've been doing online counseling ever since covid started instead of face-to-face counseling and it's just as helpful it's just as effective when you sign up and are matched with a therapist when you meet with that therapist if you don't like them you just click a button and they'll give you a new therapist it takes so much of the stress and fear out of trying to find the right counselor so if you want to try better help for yourself you can get NUMBER_TOKEN off when you use my link it's in the description URL_TOKEN elena and they do have counselors that specialize in lgbtq issues if that's what you want to talk about so click that link check it out for yourself therapy is life-changing and we all need it okay let's see what other secrets you got for me there are so many secrets about making out with your best friend enough that every time i see two best friends i'm just gonna be like you guys make out in secret doesn't have to be a secret we all know did any queers
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN hey that's a great transition to our sponsor better help if there is something interfering with your happiness interfering with you achieving your personal goals interfering with you living your life as your authentic self better help might be something you want to check out this is an online counseling service where you get matched based on your needs with your own licensed professional therapist and this is not a crisis line it's not self-help this is professional counseling done securely online and when you sign up you can start talking to your counselor within NUMBER_TOKEN hours the service is available worldwide there are counselors that fit a wide variety of needs plus counseling through better help is often more affordable than traditional face-to-face in-person counseling and they do offer financial aid to those who need it i have personally used better help and have benefited from my relationship with my counselor on there plus i've been doing online counseling ever since covid started instead of face-to-face counseling and it's just as helpful it's just as effective when you sign up and are matched with a therapist when you meet with that therapist if you don't like them you just click a button and they'll give you a new therapist it takes so much of the stress and fear out of trying to find the right counselor so if you want to try better help for yourself you can get NUMBER_TOKEN off when you use my link it's in the description URL_TOKEN elena and they do have counselors that specialize in lgbtq issues if that's what you want to talk about so click that link check it out for yourself therapy is life-changing and we all need it okay END_SPONSOR_TOKEN