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How to Come Out When You're Terrified of Losing Your Family

I have not told anyone in my family that I am gay after two years of being out to my friends because I cannot bear to lose them but I also cannot bear living this double life.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The self stands at the crossroads between authentic expression and the profound risk of abandonment.

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