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How important is it to share with your family about your struggles with sexuality?

salt-n-light

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more specifically those that are dealing with attractions towards the same sex, but open to anything else in general.

In my journey now to holiness, I’ve realizing how important it is to share your struggles with others, and that bearing it alone can be crippling if I need to grow. I’m learning how to be vulnerable with my thoughts as a woman (which have been so hard for me), and I know one of those steps is to be able to bond and share things on my heart with others.

So I’m wondering if it’s actually a needed step to tell my family that this is where I am at. It just feels like I’m kinda dodging things whenever they bring up marriage and husband. I’m not sure if that is necessarily in the cards for me.
 

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I have had the same struggles. For me I have only found one friend that I can trust to share these struggles with and not feel judged. I trust this person to pray for me and share with me biblical truths to help realign my thinking with God's word.

I personally just don't feel it necessary to share anything with others including my family. I just don't think they would understand and all it would do would bring false judgment and it would always be on there mind.

I do believe God can bring me the right person to marry if it is his will. And I do have a desire to be married and start my own family. So I just tell them when they ask if I am ever going to get married that I have given that request to the Lord and he will bring me the right person, and if that never happens I am ok with that.
 
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