Thai GL families
Hello everyone! How have you all been? 👋🏽 There's something I've been thinking about since I started watching Thai GL this past January, and I wanted to share it here. It's about how wonderful the families in Thai GL are, and how healing they've been for my nervous system. I've mentioned this before in comments on other posts, but I've never made a post specifically about it.
What surprised me the most is that Thai GL isn't just about beautiful love stories between women, it's also about beautiful family stories. Of course, there are some series where this isn't the case, and I know these shows are fictional and not necessarily a reflection of reality, but still, this is the first time I've ever watched lesbian-centered series where family truly matters, where the emotional impact of family dynamics is taken seriously and shown as something that deeply affects the characters' lives.
Family feels important in these stories. Present. Warm. Human. And there's something incredibly comforting about that. It feels beautiful. I think part of the reason this affects me so deeply is because I always longed for that kind of warmth growing up. When I was younger (I'm 39 now), sometimes while walking to work or school, I'd look at houses that seemed to have that "family feeling" and imagine how cozy and happy the people inside must be. It was probably a silly thing to do lol 😆, but I couldn't help it.
I grew up with both my parents, but emotionally they were living in completely separate worlds. My father worked nonstop and didn't really care about home, he just worked, would bring money and that was it, and my mother was struggling with her own issues. Eventually we lost everything, and I ended up moving from place to place, depending on other people's kindness to survive.
I don't want to turn this into a long life story, my life honestly sounds like a thriller sometimes lol, but I wanted to explain why this family aspect in Thai GL means so much to me. Now I'm an adult, and I work in law enforcement as a criminal profiler. I understand my past very clearly now, I understand the reasons behind things, the patterns, it all feels like a puzzle I managed to solve. And I thought that was it. Just me, my life, and all the answers finally arranged into place.
Then Thai GL appeared and somehow made me feel a sense of magic again, through its beautiful love stories, but also through its beautiful family stories. Thank you so much Thai GL 💐