Off- topic thread Nov. 23-29

I'm thankful my Thanksgiving family drama isn't spiteful or actively hurtful, but lord sometimes you get obnoxious conversations anyway.

Every other year or so my mother drops a comment that's basically "if you're gay I just want you to know I don't care and will support you no matter what." Which is great, to be honest. And the first few times I really appreciated it because I know a lot of families wouldn't be like that. But I'm not gay. She's met my past serious girlfriends. She knows my current girlfriend well enough that they independently make plans to spend time together. Whenever we have this conversation it always comes back to me not being married yet, which is just obnoxious. I can't get mad about it because I think she genuinely means well, but it's just grating when somebody doesn't believe you about your own sexuality. It came up this time because my girlfriend told her that we probably aren't going to get married, which is true, and my mother just does not understand that (and to be fair our relationship is a little odd).

This time at least the conversation happened in front of my nephew, which was a good thing because even though I don't think he's gay it's important that he knows the family doesn't see anything wrong with being something other than straight. And it allowed me to talk to him about it a little more when I drove him back to his house.

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