Comments | neuroaster: We've had better weekends

neuroaster

We've had better weekends

Jun 30, 2008 07:25

I am gay, and my spouse’s parents are homophobic

Genealogy’s ties are ruthlessly strict and toxic

How the bullying tears and screams of my spouse’s parents

Make our landlord appear as tame as our fellow tenants

We, the sick human species, prey upon our own

Then, we chit-chat about our “righteousness” and “sin”

Go believe that the world is changing, as if ( Read more... )

life, family, people, love, vanderflash

Comments 2

'Had Better Weekends' vt_mama July 7 2008, 01:47:27 UTC

Hi Jon,

Wow, that sounds so sad. Do his parents really feel that bullying will magically make their son so called "normal"?? You must really love each other to put up with all the crap. Do you have support from others?

(((Hugs))) to both of you.

not2worry neuroaster July 8 2008, 04:23:24 UTC

Yes, we do have a circle of supportive friends, including my sister http://lizamanynames.livejournal.com/ and people on her side of the family. Most of the people who DO treat us like family ARE NOT genetically related to EITHER of us AT ALL. I never tire of saying that my sister http://lizamanynames.livejournal.com/ and people like her have taught me that Agape (as in 1st Corinthians 13) is thicker than DNA, contrary to popular belief that "blood is [supposedly always] thicker than water." SOME CONTEXT: My sister http://lizamanynames.livejournal.com/ is the biological-daughter of my stepfather and my biological-mother. I feel that my stepfather is my True Dad, and that my biological-mother (she died of cancer in 1993) was my True Mother, whereas I regard my biological-father as having been my "sperm-donor" and my stepmother as my "sperm-donor's bxtch" (My biological ( ... )