As f**ked up as that feels, parents do that stuff because they love us.
Because they want to make sure we are safe, because they are concerned with our well-being.
They don’t do it to make us mad, to hurt us, to violate our privacy, even tho that’s how it feels.
It’s just because they love us.
Maybe they aren’t feeling included in your life too.
Maybe you can open up to them more and include them in your thoughts, feelings and experiences?
I don’t know 🤷♂️
I’m just a random person reflecting some of my own experiences with that stuff.
I hid aspects of my sexuality as a young person.
I didn’t understand my sexuality so I didn’t talk about it to them.
They later told me they wished I would have because they love all of me and that there’s no 1 thing that defines any of us.
If all I am is my sexual identity then I’m a pretty shallow, empty, boring person.
I’m SO MUCH more than that.
My sexuality is just an aspect of me, a sliver in the vast multitude of things I am.
❤️