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Should I Tell Mom I Think Dad Was Gay? (NYT advice column question)
The New York Times ^
| JAN. 13, 2016
| Name Withheld by NYT
Posted on 01/20/2016 11:38:09 AM PST by presidio9
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posted on
01/20/2016 11:38:09 AM PST
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
Why can’t gays just keep their damn mouths shut? Me Me Me Me Me. Why would he tell his mother this? What could it possibly achieve aside from increasing her suffering and grief?
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posted on
01/20/2016 11:40:53 AM PST
by
montag813
To: presidio9
“That same night, my father took me aside and confided that before his marriage he had an affair with a man but got psychological help and was ‘cured.’”
But just prior to that he says he has no proof?!?
This guy is quite the genius.
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posted on
01/20/2016 11:41:35 AM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: presidio9
LOL.
My mom was quite ill, bipolar disorder, breast cancer, and did not have a lot of road left in front of her, and I was typically brutally honest with her.
Until a coworker said the following: You spent the first several decades of your life lying to her, or at least concealing the whole truth. Now, as she is near the end of her life you tell her the truth?
Don’t tell mom.
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posted on
01/20/2016 11:41:58 AM PST
by
dmz
To: presidio9
Well, number one, he’s not gay, he’s queer.
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posted on
01/20/2016 11:42:27 AM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
To: presidio9
What good can come from the conversation? I have a visceral dislike for those that gossip, especially those that gossip about the dead who are no longer able to defend themselves.
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posted on
01/20/2016 11:43:29 AM PST
by
taxcontrol
( The GOPe treats the conservative base like slaves by taking their votes and refuses to pay)
To: montag813
Why can't gays just keep their damn mouths shut? Me Me Me Me Me. Why would he tell his mother this? What could it possibly achieve aside from increasing her suffering and grief? You answered your own question.
"Me Me Me Me Me." That's all that matters.
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posted on
01/20/2016 11:44:09 AM PST
by
Bubba_Leroy
(The Obamanation Continues)
To: presidio9
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posted on
01/20/2016 11:44:24 AM PST
by
Fido969
("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes" - Albert Einstein)
To: presidio9
I promised. Sodomites disgust me. Their whole world revolves around their filthy, perverted, and unnatural methods of achieving orgasm. That unpleasant topic supersedes all else for them.
I promised.
Yes. You promised. So STFU. Jerk.
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posted on
01/20/2016 11:44:38 AM PST
by
NorthMountain
("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
To: taxcontrol
What good can come from the conversation? I have a visceral dislike for those that gossip, especially those that gossip about the dead who are no longer able to defend themselves Yep - that about sums it up. Spot on.
To: montag813
Creepy guy hates women. Mom included. This is a way to hurt her, and that is a pleasing prospect to him.
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posted on
01/20/2016 11:45:19 AM PST
by
Jedidah
To: presidio9
I suppose "Name Withheld by NYT" ought to watch/re-watch "Death at a Funeral".
I generally preferred the UK original over the US remake.
Peter Dinklage played the boy-toy in both versions.
To: ifinnegan
The issue should be left with God. It shouldn’t be used to burden her. There might have been more situations like this than we knew, with a bad habit that was kept curbed by effort of will. And now our modern “gay movement” comes along and shouts “Cheer who you are!” (As long as that isn’t some kind of devout Christian, I guess.)
The devil has his own riff on the Christian promise of permanent salvation. He taunts permanent damnation. It’s so often taken as an excuse when it isn’t even TRUE.
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posted on
01/20/2016 11:49:48 AM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: presidio9
The maggot who wrote to The New York Times probably has a mother who was born in the 1920s.
That selfish jerk is NOW going to saddle her with headaches at this point in her life? Good grief.
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posted on
01/20/2016 11:49:56 AM PST
by
Blue Jays
(Rock Hard, Ride Free)
To: montag813; All
Why canât gays just keep their damn mouths shut? Why can't gays stop posting this crap on Free Republic?
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posted on
01/20/2016 11:50:04 AM PST
by
Cobra64
(Common sense isn't common anymore)
To: BookmanTheJanitor
True... he should use this opportunity to deny evil a chance to advance any further. Leave it with God.
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posted on
01/20/2016 11:50:33 AM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: presidio9
if was all THAT homosexual, your Mom knows about it already.
(don’t try to tell Mama anything. Rather, you’d be better off asking her.... where you came from...)
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posted on
01/20/2016 11:50:51 AM PST
by
faithhopecharity
(Diff tween D's and R's is that the thatD's -allow the poor to be corrupt, too. (O. Levant)
To: Cobra64
Was it sads who posted it here? News to me.
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posted on
01/20/2016 11:51:21 AM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
I don’t disagree with you.
I would also say that the Mom already knows.
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posted on
01/20/2016 11:51:30 AM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: NorthMountain
Their whole world revolves around their filthy, perverted, and unnatural methods of achieving orgasm. That unpleasant topic supersedes all else for them. Being from NYC, and having attended Columbia, I'm guessing I have a lot more gay friends than you do. I didn't used to, so I was surprised when I got to know them just how much of every aspect of their lives seems to revolve around the question of sex, and when where and how they were going to have it. I know a lot of straight guys who think that way too, but sex is always on the table for gay men.
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posted on
01/20/2016 11:52:39 AM PST
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does.)
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