Hey, Hey Waffle gang. I do hope you are well. My name is Mark and today we're checking

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first story. Now today's first story.

Now today's first story comes from a throwaway account and it's titled, My Son Came Out and my wife handled the situation badly.

And I just want to give you a warning before we do get into the story.

It does contain homophobia.

Hey, I posted this in a parenting subreddit last night, and someone recommended that I posted in an LGBT one to get a better perspective on how to handle things with my son.

I would honestly appreciate all advice on how to help him.

Writing this on a throwaway account since I know my son is on Reddit.

The long and short of it is that my son came out to me and my wife and my wife took it

extremely badly. I don't know how to handle either one of them, although for completely different

reasons. Basically, here's how things happen. Wednesday, I came home from work and my son said he had something to tell me.

He was obviously fidgety about something.

And after a bit of rambling, he eventually told me he was gay.

To be honest, I already knew.

He's a good kid and pretty damn smart, but I'm a programmer and therefore the computer guy. I'm the one

that everyone calls to fix their computers and laptop. So without drawing a picture, I already knew

he was gay. So when he finally came out to me, I was actually kind of relieved. He and I have always

had a good relationship, but he never told me, and I was kind of wondering

if maybe we didn't have such a good relationship.

In any case, I did the dad thing of telling him that I loved him, and all I really wanted

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