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Your dad sounds supportive and I think his joking will help him to assimilate this perhaps new view of you and your future that coming out creates and also will work to create an environment where you will always be able to openly acknowledge and discuss your sexuality at home. The joke will get old to him in time; just wait it out.
This beats my dad saying that it's such a pity because I would have made a good wife and my mum laughing when I said the reason I don't play softball is because I don't like ball sports. This is 5 years after coming out.
to be fair, you kinda brought that ball-sports one on yourself.
Not in the context of the conversation, I expected my 58 year old mother would be a little more mature.
les be honest, is it really that awful. Every dad picks on their child in one way or another.
Why were you in the closet?
I'm not sure if you are trying to make a joke or you're clueless
Because she was trying to find her coat. duh.
Isn't it obvious! She was reenacting R Kelly's Trapped In The Closet... Lol, I just had to..
I've always wondered if that song meant R Kelly was gay....
Lol, these comments remind me of the South Park episode with all the celebrities locking themselves in Stan's closet.
"Tom, you've got to come out of the closet"
Consider yourself lucky, OP. Your dad sounds like he's being very accepting and he's just kidding around with you. Some parents throw their kids out of the house, disown them or worse. Sounds like he's taking it pretty well.
At least he's not saying "Get out of here, you ******* queer!"
It's probably just his way of dealing with it. I imagine it takes a lot to tell your parents, but it's also something that they have to get their head round as well.
I agree with most of the comments on here that it could be so much worse, but I totally get that you would want him to keep treating you exactly the same as he did before. Just talk to him about it and let him know that it was funny the first time, but now you just want things to go back to how they were.
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I like your dad, he seems to have a sense of humor.
At least he's not making it worse than that