My Dad Doesn't Know I'm Gay

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Dr. Laura encourages Pat to stop hiding the fact that she's gay from her father. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live
0:04.7	radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM
0:10.0	Triumph 111.
0:11.0	Pat welcome to the program.
0:13.0	Thank you, Dr Laura, for taking my call.
0:16.0	You are very welcome.
0:18.0	So I am a 52-year-old independent woman. I am in a lesbian relationship. My question to you, I need
0:29.5	your advice, your opinion. I am not out to my family although a sibling is very suspicious. My father
0:41.8	is in good help but he is in his early 90s.
0:45.0	The way we were raised in the Southern Baptist Church,
0:50.0	it would not be, I think it would disappoint him if I came out and said that I am in a
0:57.4	lesbian relationship. I have had to hide my relationship because of my previous employment.
1:05.8	However, now I do not have to and I'm just feeling burden.
1:10.1	Maybe I feel guilty that I haven't said to dad this is who I truly am although he may
1:16.8	suspect that he's never said anything so just need your advice.
1:22.6	First of all, we'll take down your name, number, your address, your Social Security
1:26.3	number and everything else because if you do tell your dad and he never had that idea. I'll give you 10 bucks. He knows. Okay.
1:41.2	One of the earliest papers I wrote I didn't do too many papers.
1:45.0	In fact, I think I did one.
1:48.0	So I was one.
1:50.0	And I did research on if parents knew.
1:58.4	And when they knew and how they knew.
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