My girlfriend and I are both bi but she's completely out and I'm only out to a few people, and it's creating this weird tension where she feels like I'm ashamed and I feel like she doesn't understand that coming out isn't the same experience for everyone. We love each other but we're stuck on this thing where my pace feels like rejection to her and her openness feels like pressure to me.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are navigating the complex territory between personal readiness and relational authenticity around visibility of sexual identity.
“Where Are You with Sexual orientation as identity?”
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