My son CAME OUT to me… and I reacted poorly! | Reddit Stories | EP2515
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | John, you're under arrest. |
| 0:01.4 | Oh, no. |
| 0:02.2 | Don't do it. |
| 0:03.2 | I'm an OGoki Starry Time podcast host. I don't care. I'm making sure that you stay here for the next two minutes. All right, I'll be detained for the two more minutes before we get into this episode. Yeah, we got some ads coming up. So stick around. Think around. This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. My son came out to me and I reacted badly. |
| 0:24.8 | Ooh. This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:24.5 | My son came out to me and I reacted badly. |
| 0:27.2 | Ooh, you didn't try to shove him back in the closet, did you? |
| 0:31.4 | It's been pointed out my title wording makes the post seem worse than it is. |
| 0:32.6 | I apologize for that. |
| 0:33.6 | It wasn't my intention. |
| 0:39.5 | So I, 37 male, have always known my son, 17 male, had an interest in men. |
| 0:45.4 | Always? Always. From birth? Yeah, came out and he was like, that baby likes men. He likes me more than his mom. Makes sense. That's a gay baby. He was slow on the pickup of incognito mode. And from |
| 0:50.9 | the searches he made, I figured he was at least by curious, if that's the proper |
| 0:54.8 | term for it since he hit puberty. By the way, this comes from lost and confused 1010, and if you want to submit your own stories, go to the R slash OK Storytime subredit. I'm Sophia. I'm Dakota. I'm Keon. And we're here to give good advice, goofily, but we don't have all the answers. we only know what we'd do. |
| 1:10.2 | So let us know what you would do in the comments. |
| 1:12.2 | And OP says, |
| 1:13.3 | well, last year he started bringing a boy around. |
| 1:16.5 | And it was obvious they were dating to the point I figured that he knew I knew. And it wasn't a big deal |
| 1:21.4 | to anyone. Well, apparently I was wrong. After school yesterday, he and his boyfriend came up to me |
| 1:26.7 | and said there was something |
| 1:27.7 | really important they needed to tell me. My son said that they were dating and had been for a year. |
| 1:33.6 | Well, I was surprised that he wasn't aware I knew and was a bit thrown off. It's just like, |
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