u/undecidedfoot93

Help with coming out to my Mum

Hi to everyone reading, I am AMAB MtF 24 planning on coming out to my Mum so I can properly get my journey started without having to worry about hiding anything, as it won't feel right not telling her anything before I start it's not the kind of relationship we have. Since it's about my Mum I figured this would be the best place to talk about something like this.

I am in a safe environment I know I won't be getting kicked out or disowned or anything like that and I know that she isn't gonna hate me for coming out.

One of my big issues is being too scared to actually do it really. I'm always seeing how happy she is for me to be her son, she is Muslim I don't think that's much of a concern knowing her but the concern is still there. She's very much a "blue is for boys pink is for girls no mixing it up" type of person (not in a phobic way though) and I feel like this is a step or two beyond that, but most of all though, because her and my little sister are all the family I have left that I can fully trust the last thing I want is to lose her too so I always get too scared to go through with anything.

The other main issue is not really knowing how to go about it since I've never really had to make such a life changing announcement like this before, on top of not really knowing how to word anything to begin with that's something I've always struggled with.

So to any Parents that may reading this, how should I do this? How would you feel most comfortable being told something like this? Is there a limit of what I should or shouldn't bring up?

Thanks for reading, sorry if any of this is worded badly this is a first for me.

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u/undecidedfoot93 — 6 days ago