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To me (rather indirectly), my brother (who is not even a teenager yet) has already showed signs that he is "in the closet." He denied being gay, but his hidden emotions and outright behaviors (according to both himself and his friends) have clearly shown otherwise. They're all trying so hard to hide it from his dad.

My brother may not be gay, but he sure isn't straight like I am. My mom said one year ago, she expects both of us to have babies with our wives. My stepdad is prejudiced (usually doesn't like his kid hearing about LGBTQ+, Black History, or issues related to such), but thank God he is not outright homophobic or racist (i. e., doesn't teach him stuff like "[these people] will burn in Hell" or "[those people] are subhuman/animals"). That said, my brother does use slurs sometimes; though I don't think he gets them exactly from his dad (my stepdad used to call his friends the n-word though; but he stopped doing that for some reason... like a long time ago).

I'm in deep fear that my younger brother will become a "spiritual successor" to Christian Walker.

It's a really weird conclusion, but politics and behaviors do often correlate. I wrote to my dad on Facebook everything that I wrote in my "first" post on here and all he did was reply to me with a black man shooting his shot basketball GIF and saying have a great day and that he loves me... Empathetic gaslighting much?

Sometimes my dad is more of a deadbeat than my stepdad. But he doesn't act as blunt most of the time. He was very blunt when I was a kid and sometimes strict, but I don't think he was on the same level as my stepdad.

Why doesn't my bio-dad take me seriously when I tell him the behaviors of my mom and stepdad?

There have been a few times in my life where I dated women who had “school girl” crushes on me. However they later quickly bailed when they got to know the real me.

I am not a psycho or anything. I am definitely a deep thinker and can be sensitive about things. I got some depression but I’ve always been independent both financially and emotionally. I get support from friends but I know it’s ultimately up to me to fix my own issues.

Anyway I’ve improved on how showed my lesser sides to women as I have gotten older. Gotten better at being careful about what emotions I will show women vs. which ones I’ll keep a lid on. Especially when it comes to insecurities

But I can remember dating a few women in the past who were initially head over heels for me because of the fantasy they had in their head about who they thought I was. Sure it felt good initially. They often pursued me and made dating easy. No problem getting laid in that scenario (usually their idea). They also would act seemingly supportive and tolerant of my personality. But this always ended bad. Very bad. One girl ghosted me after dating for 9 f*cking months. And all while I was dating I was aware they might just be daydreaming only to do a 180 later when their “emotions” changed.

But there have been a few women I pursued just to discover issues with them later that was less than pleasant. It was a turn off but I never did a quick 180 immediately just because they didn’t match up to the original image I had of them in my head.