How do I navigate a relationship with my difficult parents who do not support my gay son?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

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🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In this episode, I talk with a mother and answer the question “How do I navigate a relationship with my difficult parents who do not support my gay son?” This mother grew up in a home where individuality was discouraged, and she often felt attacked for sharing opinions that differed from her parents’. Their traditional Christian views are unsupportive of her son, and she worries for what they will say that may make him feel unloved and invalidated. At the same time, however, she feels immense...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you to
0:23.2	prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your faith. I'm your host,
0:29.2	Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women
0:34.5	all over the world heal themselves and their relationships.
0:38.3	Join me here every week as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them with tools to find healing.
0:45.3	I am so thrilled to welcome Jenny to the podcast today. Welcome, Jenny.
0:50.0	Oh, thank you for having me. I'm so glad to be here.
0:52.8	What is your question for me today? Oh, this is a doozy. I'm so glad to be here. What is your question for me today?
0:55.0	Oh, this is a doozy. Okay. So I have a son. He is 14 and he came out to me when he was 12 as gay. I knew it's he was gay when he was two. Like I just, I knew. He's always shown it.
1:11.7	My husband was a pastor at the time.
1:14.0	So my son was very scared to tell us.
1:17.4	And my response to him was, I know.
1:21.1	Like, yeah, I know.
1:22.8	Great.
1:23.3	Like, what do you want for dinner?
1:25.5	It just was very.
1:26.8	Wasn't a big deal.
1:28.3	Right.
1:29.4	But then I got super, I went through this trauma of telling my parents.
1:36.1	Hmm.
1:36.7	Because I knew I needed to tell them so that they didn't, they're very vocal about their views.
1:42.8	And their views are very traditional
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