No one gets it

Ah, but, you ARE going through a phase; the phase of being young enough to do the things you want to do while you’re young, before you become too old to do them.

We all are in one “phase” or another, or many at once. Life itself is a “phase.”

People throw around comments like “it’s just a phase” trying to sound wise, and end up making themselves sound stupid.

What they fail to realize is that you’ll still be gay in the next “phase,” and the phase after that…

And so they should accept who you are, and learn to appreciate you, so that you don’t have to avoid each other for the remainder of this “phase” we call “life.”

But try to forgive them for being in the “pretend we understand, because we don’t, but want to seem like we do…” phase, in which they have not figured out how to most appropriately react to facts they would like to be different.

Whether their reasons are right or wrong, you “turned out to be” different than what they were hoping for… and that’s likely difficult for them to deal with… and so, try not to let it get to you, too much, when they try to wrap whatever pretty lie around something they didn’t want to be true. Try to have faith that they’ll “get it” someday… but certainly don’t wait around expecting them to.