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I think I had it pretty easy with the one person I confessed it to beforehand, and the very person that referred me to these forums at that...I haven't admitted my bisexuality to anyone offline, because I know that if I tell one person and they're not trustworthy, it'll run through the family/school like wildfire. In a conservative society, that's not really a good thing.

I came out to one of my best friends online, but I made sure to ask theirs first...

Me: I'm wondering...what would you rate yourself on the Kinsey Scale?
Them: A 4 or a 5, I guess. You?
Me: 3 or 4.
Them: So you're bisexual?
Me: Yeah...
Them: Cool. Me too.

Now, if only it were that easy to say with people face-to-face.. sweatdrop

i told one of my best friends the other night i was bi. she took it real well. i also told one of my online buddies. he didn't even know even with the way my other online friend and i talk crazy s**t.

like i always say: when s**t gets deep you find out who your true friends are. my friend and her husband have been real supportive of my husband and i through our... family crisis.

Hmm, things with me were/are kind of complicated, but so are they for mostly everyone else.

When I grew up I had a lesbian aunt with a bisexual son, a gay uncle, and another bisexual male cousin all on my dad's side of the family. My dad has always been a pretty big homophobe (he even picked on my uncle in high school.) Luckily my parents got divorced (I have no clue why my mom married him in the first place). Anyways, growing up I have Christmas memories of my Uncle and his boyfriend as they changed from year to year kissing by the Christmas tree as my my Aunts also kissed. Later on some weekends my uncle and his boyfreinds would sleep over in the living room or one of my cousins and his boyfreinds would sleep over so my childhood was always pretty openly gay.

Growing up around my dad gave me mixed signals though. By the time I was in the third grade I knew I was gay but at my school and around my dad they weren't liked so I tried to ignore it and made myself asexual. Later I realized that there was nothing wrong with it but began to worry that if I came out as gay too that my family wouldn't be able to handle another gay person and crumble under the pressure.

I got over that by the time a year had passed and now I'm out with my mom's side of the family, freinds, and people at school who ask (only 4 people asked so far, most others assume I'm straight XD).

Anyways, when I told my mom her first response was, "Is this really how you feel?" I said yes and she said, "Well, you have to talk about these things. I don't love you any less, and Uncle will always be there for you. Your dad won't like it though. When are you telling him?" I said I didn't know and still haven't. (Right now I'm figuring out how to tell my half-sister about myself in the event my dad disowns me and bans me from seeing her).

My grandma responded the same way. She just hugged me and said something along the lines of, "It's a hard world out there. Don't give up, and don't let them get you down." Then she told me the history of all of our gay family members, what they'd been through, and when they'd told her. (For instance, my Aunt went through the whole "fake marriage" thing, got depressed, got addicted to drugs, came out as a lesbian, but brought back diseases from her drug use and my Uncle's been threated more than three times with being killed crying )

The next person I told was my mom's friend and she immediately told me, "Oh, is that all? What does it matter if you're gay? Just as long as you have safe sex. And be careful. It's great to be proud you're gay, but there are people who'll hurt you so just be careful about it."

Mostly things went along like that. One of my freinds though joked about how we were going to Hell for something and I remarked, "Yeah, but I'm not going to Hell for that." He said, "Then what for?" and I said, "I'm probably going to Hell because I'm gay." At first he thought I was joking but I told a couple more times I wasn't and he said we needed to talk the next day. We didn't, but ever since he's been fine with it.

All in all once I get over the thing with my dad I can say I've been pretty damn lucky.

a couple of my friends know im bisexual

but my parents are dead set against gays

my mom said shed send me to see a shrink to fix me and she might disown me

I haven't really "come out" because I'm really not sure...or maybe inside I am sure but it hasn't reached the surface yet, I don't know.

I've had a boyfriend for nearly 4 years now, but lately have felt a little trapped in the relationship...and very often I will find women attractive. Whenever I can't see him for a while and have to...um...take things into my own hands *ahem* I always end up paying far more attention to the women in whatever I happen to be looking at >_> There's a number of women I find highly attractive, some actresses (Angelina Jolie...Charlize Theron...omg), some people I see in my daily life...When I look at other guys I feel guilty, because of my boyfriend and all, but I don't when I look at girls...so maybe that's why I keep doing it? Because for some odd reason I don't feel the same shame as when it's a guy? Or are these feelings true? If so, then I suppose I would be Bi.

But on to what I wanted to discuss...about telling the people I am close to about this. My boyfriend has expressed that if I were to find attraction in girls (either exclusively OR in addition to males), that he might be a little sad, because that's something he knows he could never give me. As for my female friends, I know they wouldn't turn against me or anything, we all know and love our gay friends...we live in San Francisco Bay Area for godsake XD But them and I like to joke about silly things, like going after each other's breats and such funny things close female friends joke about. I feel that if I tell them, that kind of joking would make them uncomfortable, like they'll think I might mean it seriously. I dunno, I don't want anything to change between us. As for my far more numerous male friends, I doubt they'd care. They really respect me and have never made sexual jokes or comments at me, probably because my boyfriend is their friend too ya know. And my family would support me if I could bring myself to tell them...I feel awkward telling them anything personal, because we're just not the sharing type of family XD

Well, I'm not sure what I'm trying to get at here, I'm just kinda confused about...everything gonk

Sorry for the super-long post, and thanks to anyone who took the time to read it all sweatdrop

I guess nobody has any words of wisdom/advice to give me =/

Sounds like we have similar situations in a few ways. I'm really happy that everything worked out great for you, I hate to hear when people have bad experiences coming out.

I feel you on the subject of avoiding the whole topic altogether whee

My boyfriend...well recently he made a joke about me thinking some girl was hot, and wanting to grab her a** or something XD and he said "you know, for a split second I think I might be like 'woah cool' and then after that I'd be sad because that's another large group of people that can steal you away from me, not just all those guys that are better looking than me'" >_< ::sigh:: oy.

Yes, my attraction to women has definitely reached the sexual level... Man. I am learning more and more about myself all the time. It's liberating, yet a little frightening as well. It's been in the back of my mind for years now that I might be bi, but I just kept brushing it aside...with no idea why. Perhaps because I've heard from so many people, including plenty of homosexual people, that being Bi is some joke, that people should pick one or the other. Anyway, now coming face to face with it, I'm realizing how very real and big of a discovery this is, to seriously contemplate if these are the true feelings I am having or not...though it actually seems that they are undeniably so....

Thank you very much for your input, it is greatly appreciated.