Father scores major matchmaker points after his son comes out to him
Within two months’ time, a teen went from closeted and single to out and dating, and he has his meddlesome father to thank!As this 16-year-old recently recounted on Reddit, he came out to his dad more than a month prior, and his dad reacted better than his mom had. (In fact, the dad kicked the mom out of the house since she was pushing for conversion therapy.)But the dad’s supportiveness verged on overbearing, as the teen told other Redditors. “He still is trying way too hard to be supportive—like, support dial on 1000%,” the teen wrote. “Don’t get me wrong, I am grateful for his support and know his heart is in the right place, but everything always seems to circle back to my gayness.
I don’t want that to be my number one personality trait or be the focus of everything all the time.”Related: Dad reacts like a pro after walking in on closeted son in a comprising positionIn fact, the dad is so supportive, he even urged his son to go on a date with a coworker’s son.
And our hero was feeling ambivalent about that prospect at the time of his original Reddit post. “Him trying to set me up like this is kind of cringe, but also, I don’t know, it might be nice to actually go on a date with a guy,” he wrote. “I mean, I’m 16, and the only date I’ve been on was a failed double [date] with a girl, which obviously I wasn’t into.
So I guess the question is, should I give it a shot or just keep telling my dad no?”Commenters on the post were Team Dad on this one.
