Fury as Mom Outs Teenage Son Before He's Ready: 'It Was Obvious'
Reddit users.In a post to the Am I the A******? (AITA) forum, user u/platefoodaway said she'd suspected her 17-year-old son is gay for a while."My son is fairly masculine/straight acting if that makes sense, however he's very obviously had a boyfriend for the past seven months," she wrote.As well as cuddling, baby-talking and buying the suspected boyfriend gifts, the poster's son shuts his bedroom door when he visits.
The pair spend almost every day together, and for the last few months, the teen has been taking extra care with his appearance."He now always smells great, has his hair fixed really nice, and dresses nicer, among other things," she said.The family is going on a trip soon, and platefoodaway asked her son if he was planning on inviting his boyfriend."He got awkward and said 'that's not funny,'" she wrote."I asked what he meant and he said 'I'm straight.' I laughed and when I realized he was serious I started laughing even harder."The poster told the teen he was doing a "terrible job" of hiding his romance.
He became emotional and begged her not to tell his dad."My husband already knows, like I said it was obvious," she wrote."Then [my son] got upset, saying I outed him when he wasn't ready.
He hasn't said a word to me in a couple days. AITA?"In the poll attached to the post, Reddit users voted platefoodaway "the a******" in the situation.
