For me, I came out a few months back (F47).
My mother replied, "I hope you're not expecting me to act surprised, it's about bloody time, cup of tea?" And a hug.
Then I had 3 sister's on video call together, I only told them I was thinking about dating again and 2 of them said "women?" before I had a chance to say anything.
They obviously knew me better than I did 😆
First of all, I'm almost 50 years old, I've previously only slept with men to keep up appearances the last one was 15 years ago, a few months back I admitted to myself what I'd always known, I'm sooo gay!
So far I've spoken to 3 women online, all disastrous, 1 was fake, 1 turned out to be straight and then I managed to overthink and reject the third all by myself. So, I decided to slow things down and make some gay friends first, hoping they can guide me through this journey.
I've been talking with someone new recently, who's turned out to be like my lesbian library and life coach she knows where I'm at with dating and just making friends and I can ask her anything and I get honest responses (which is brilliant), we are going to meet up soon, she's new to the area so I can show her around, anyway, last week she told me she had a message online and is now going on a date this weekend and she's really excited about it, I've been very supportive along with a bit of teasing, of course! The trouble now is I was happy to be just friends but since I've known she's going on this date, I have realised I really like her, I've opened up to her like she's a diary, telling her my inner thoughts and desires, she thinks I'm funny and her type of woman.
So is this just jealousy? Because I didn't feel this way about her before. Should I not trust how I feel at the moment because everything is so new to me? Should I tell her or say nothing and stay just as friends?
I honestly I have idea what I'm doing at the moment, it's all just a bit confusing.