I came out to my mom, it didn’t go well.
So I (23F) came out to my mom a while ago. We were talking about love and I said I didn’t really care if it was a man or a woman, I loved them all the same. My mom said, 'I don’t think you have the experience to determine that yet.' It made me feel a little sad that she would think that, but whatever.
I should mention that when I was 14, I had a girlfriend in high school during my freshman year. It was very short and not good because I was hiding it from everyone and everything. After we broke up, my mom took my phone away for an unrelated thing (probably bad grades, lol). She went through it and found messages between me and someone else talking about my relationship with a girl. My mom then had an 'intervention' of sorts with my aunt, herself, and me, where she said something along the lines of, 'You were just lonely and you never actually felt anything for this girl or any girls.'
Being scared, I agreed and hid in the closet for ten years until recently, when I came out to her as I mentioned above. My mom loves to say she has no issues with the LGBTQ+ community, but clearly, she draws the line at her child being a part of it. I’ve ignored her for now and started to embrace it, but I can’t help feeling sad and disappointed that she didn’t take it well.