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:
3. When someone asks you about your sexual orientation you struggle to form a coherent sentence:
4. Coming out of the closet is a graceful affair...almost never:
5. Because, frankly, you're still figuring it out for yourself — it's a process:
6. All the anxiety of holding onto this secret builds up inside and you just. Want. To. Let. It. Go:
7. How much longer can you let your true identity lurk behind closed doors?
8. Coming out is all about figuring things out and answering those unsolved questions:
9. You spend hours worrying if people already know and not knowing how to feel about that:
10. You've had a few close calls in the past that, frankly, you'd rather forget about:
11. Odds are that thoughtful and perfect "coming-out speech" will go completely out the window:
12. And tbh, you're tired of attending family functions and introducing your bae as "just a friend."
13. The signs are everywhere: It's time to live your best life.
14. Seriously, the signs are everywhere:
15. And I mean everywhere:
