*Opens closet door* *Trips*
1. This is your life when you’re thinking about coming out of the closet to your friends and loved ones:
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2. It’s not pretty. All these confusing ~feelings~ are making everything else sort of hard to focus on:
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3. When someone asks you about your sexual orientation you struggle to form a coherent sentence:
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4. Coming out of the closet is a graceful affair…almost never:
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5. Because, frankly, you’re still figuring it out for yourself — it’s a process:
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6. All the anxiety of holding onto this secret builds up inside and you just. Want. To. Let. It. Go:
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7. How much longer can you let your true identity lurk behind closed doors?
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8. Coming out is all about figuring things out and answering those unsolved questions:
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9. You spend hours worrying if people already know and not knowing how to feel about that:
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10. You’ve had a few close calls in the past that, frankly, you’d rather forget about:
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11. Odds are that thoughtful and perfect “coming-out speech” will go completely out the window:
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12. And tbh, you’re tired of attending family functions and introducing your bae as “just a friend.”
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13. The signs are everywhere: It’s time to live your best life.
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14. Seriously, the signs are everywhere:
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15. And I mean everywhere:
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16. But after you come out? You. Come. Out.
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17. Just remember: Those who matter don’t mind…
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18. …and those who mind? Don’t matter.
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