Lovely bit of 
news for you.... Have a big family shindig at ours today. The gay is strong in our family. However my little brother in law is a bit of a 'mans man' who had a difficult childhood and grew up in the East End under a violent alcoholic patriarch with crime and drugs and prison featuring heavily. We took him in when he was quite young still and he lived with us for I guess 4 or 5 years? Now he's grown up and we are firm friends and have a relationship that's part brothers, part friends, but a little bit father son - it's complicated but it works. But on the surface you might call him a traditionalist, long espousing the 'no son of mine' etc. So inevitably he had a boy who's grown into a handsome young man and of course...... gay. This was a problem for a while and we had to act as a buffer with arranged visits at ours etc. But evolve we must and I'm thrilled to say he managed to overcome, and for the first time last night took the boy out for dinner to meet the new boyfriend! Sounds like a slam dunk success, and my BiL confessed while we were chatting.... 'all that gay stuff I was so hung up on, I realised that all I want is for him to be happy and feel loved and not in a toxic relationship, and it feels stupid I was even worried about it now.....'
YES! I AM THE KING OF FAMILIES! IN YOUR STUPID *FACE*, UNIVERSE!
I'm telling you because I don't know how to convey this to my family but I'm genuinely quite choked up. What an absolutely lovely thing. People can surprise you sometimes. Quite a big upswing on the 'is humanity ok-ometer'.
Hope you enjoyed this nice positive thing. 😊
I hope you share more nice positive things with us too, no matter the topic. This made my day!
