A 15-year-old Reddit user said a “weight is off [his] chest” now that he told his mom he’s gay. And a screenshot of their text message shows his mom had the best — and briefest — response to his coming-out.
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Here’s how the text convo went:
“mom?”
“Hey”
“ive got a question.”
“Ok”
“can you keep a secret?”
“Yes”
“how would you feel about your son being gay?”
“Fine”
“ok, great!!”
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The 25-word chat delighted commenters — one of whom wrote, “Just ‘fine’ is probably the funniest response I can imagine.”
Another commenter said, “Honestly, those are the best reactions.”
And a 16-year-old commented, “Mothers and their one-word answers.”
(A 14-year-old Redditor, hilariously, noticed something else about the screenshot, writing, “Mr. Popular over here with the 46 unread texts.”)
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The teen later shared more of the conversation, and his mom became more verbose after the teen said he was scared of what his dad would think. “It’s about you and your life,” the mom wrote. “You can’t make anyone happy. But you certainly bring me joy! … I love you! … Thank you for sharing with me. I’m honored.”
Best of luck to this young man — and congrats to him for coming out to an important person in his life!
Roy Ajax
Scouring Reddit for garbage is news?
Lightbulb
Exactly, sounds like it might be Borat?
Cam
The right wing troll, @Roy Ajax always tries to be first to attack ANY story where an LGBTQ person comes out.
Troll, you’ve been trying the same thing for years here under multiple screenames. Give it up, your bigoted trolling is obvious and boring.
barryaksarben
AJAX your life must be one giant shitshow as you are such a miserable pos. And it will get worse as trumpy has lost his last marble. We will see you here forever trying to anger people who are onto ypu and will read and smirk at all your negativity. Happy new year homophobe scrooge. You arent even a scrooge you are a scrooge McDuck – just a lame joke
MudgeBoy
That was a beautiful story. Thanks for posting it. We should all have a mom like that. Sadly, we don’t!!
d3clark
Ajax makes a comment about scouring. I wonder if that Russian troll gets it?
michael_totzke
Lucky kid … wonderful mom … may they both thrive …
GayEGO
When I came out to my mother I was 50 years old and with a partner for 30 years. She said – “The people that call you abominations, they are the abominations.” My partner and I got married in 2004 in Massachusetts, we were together for 57 years. Last year he passed away at the age of 88, I am 79.
Doug
I’m sorry for your loss, and you were lucky to have had a mother who took the news that easily.
JeffBaker
Oh, this is so wonderful!!! So tempted to be funny if I was the Mom and end with “Who is this?” Again, wonderful!