I love my gay parents

A narcissistic parent is a parent affected by narcissism or narcissistic personality disorder. Typically, narcissistic parents are exclusively and possessively close to their children and are threatened by their children growing independent. Narcissistic parenting adversely affects the psychological development of children, affecting their reasoning and their emotional, ethical, and societal behaviors and attitudes. Narcissistic people have low self-esteem and feel the need to control how others regard them, fearing that otherwise they will be blamed or rejected and their personal inadequacies will be exposed.

Regardless of how you identify—whether it be as lesbian, bisexual , asexual , another term , or nothing at all—how you choose to label yourself is not based on a checklist. But then in high school, I met this girl and we started dating secretly. After that, there was no going back, and I eventually came out. Being with her was worth the scariness of coming out to my parents. But up until the end of high school, I was always interested in guys—and even dated a guy my senior year. I told everyone I was probably going to marry him and he was totally the one.

My friends call me Marc. I was coming to the end of a 20 year military career and I had lived all those years in the closet, not able to come out as it was not acceptable to be gay in the military in those days and often being gay would get you thrown out with a dishonourable discharge. Added to this, my family were largely homophobic to boot.

Based on the novel of the same name by Helen Cross , the film explores the lesbian relationship between two young women from different classes and backgrounds. Working class Mona Natalie Press , whose once-hotheaded brother Phil Paddy Considine became a born-again Christian in prison, meets upper middle class Tamsin Emily Blunt , in her theatrical film debut who suffers from a lack of love in her family. Tamsin is from an upper-middle-class family and says she has been suspended from boarding school. Mona comes from a family of criminals with only her brother Phil Paddy Considine alive. Both of the girls seem to regard their lives as mundane.