Being Brave Has Its Rewards
Not so long ago my husband, myself and our two sons and their partners were invited to a family wedding. The bride and groom and close family were aware of my sons sexuality and invited his partner openly. I say only one son as the bisexual son is engaged to a female and of course that is accepted.
Everything was going very well as my son and his partner are great people and are fun to be around. When it came to the time where the bridal waltz happened and everyone was to join the married couple for a slow dance I began to feel uneasy.
My husband and I got up as did my youngest son and his fiance. Just about everyone got up accept my eldest son and his male partner. This saddened my husband and myself deeply. I decided to get the boys up and dance with me. This was a little uncomfortable and in the end my son just said this is silly and grabbed his partner and danced a slow close dance with him.
My husband and I were terribly proud of them as they danced together proudly and lovingly just like everyone else. Now you may say so what. But as I was feeling proud I was also on edge because as much as I wanted this to happen I was nervous as this wedding had a lot of religious people there.
There were some staring and some very shocked looks but in general most people didn’t take any notice. I felt that even after 7 years of knowing my son was gay this was still a hurdle that we all jumped together successfully.
So even for the best of us who seem to have everything under control there will still be times where we have to be brave and take a huge step. I know that by doing what we did it helped everyone not just ourselves. A little step like this is a huge step for gay people.
