@/DesertDragon: When I came out to my parents at 18, my mother warned me that "Society isn't ready for your lifestyle" and rattled off a list of reasons I should keep my sexuality a secret, suggested I take a female friend as a date to parties and family gatherings, and to even marry a woman and that being on the Down-Low is for the best. Over the next seven years, I learned quite the opposite: I've had far more friends and coworkers be accepting than not, and had no trouble finding places to go where male couples are accepted. One day I flat-out told her, "Society isn't the one with the problem. YOU are." And that was that (btw, my father is ironically neutral, but he had a more liberal upbringing).

My mom forgot me and a couple people outside a casino once. We waited 20 minutes in the freezing cold until she came out. My sister totally called her out on it.

After I completely read my dad's beads at age 17 over his nonsense, he tread a lot more carefully around me after that.

This troper called his Dad out when he tonguewhiped him because 'He did not care at all about moving to the new flat, had no idea about what was going on and is always just interested in these dumb and stupid computer games and that he should start thinking for once!', after the Troper got an email from his Aunt. I lashed back with that he A: Had no idea who the Person referenced in the email was, B: That he also had no idea where this person could be since he did not know her and that C: He said 'No, I don't know where that is' because he FUCKING DOESN'T KNOW WHERE IT IS! Again for the why see A and B. And to finish it off, as the last point D: I called him out how he always would lash out at me when I was just genuinely confused and didn't understand something.

On that same note, a day prior This Troper also got him when his father lashed at him again how 'He always just thinks about those stupid video games and doesn't care for the important stuff' (Seeing a pattern there?). I replied that he did not say 'That he could not help with X because he wanted to play a videogame but that he said that he wanted to finish X as fast as possible so that he could play the videogame relaxed'. And top top it off he added that he (His father) has been making that mistake for years and would fling into a rage whenever this Troper said anything like that.

Okay...would it kill you to just say "I" in that whole mess?

Sorry about that. I do try to keep it informal but then slip up. Plus with the added 'I' it looks sorta strange in some places. Fixing it, hopefully.

In November 2009, I had to do this with my mother after she called to complain that I didn't contact her for help to pay my university graduation fees (I graduated in-absentia; long story), and she also complained that I need to "get over" her divorce from my father. Well, I wrote her a note after that phone conversation, in which I blasted her for abandoning me and my brother on a rainy night while my father was out of town, while simultaneously using a moving truck to cart away literally everything that could be moved (I kid you not); and also for her accusing Dad of cheating on her during their marriage (he didn't), but conveniently forgetting how she got involved with a much younger man who is currently her husband, and how she refused to go for marital counseling with Dad when I suggested it to them. My writing the note caused some tensions against me by my mother and older brother; things have calmed down since then.

More recently I had to do it with my father, confronting him about his prejudice against the Seventh-day Adventist faith (of which I am a member). As could be expected, he denied it.

My dad was always a major bully to the rest of my family. About two years back however my father completely went off the deep end. He started getting heavily into drugs and began to threaten my mom and sister. Eventually we had to call the cops on him and he immediately went to divorce my mom. In the first few weeks following that I tried to act as a go between, genuinely trying to help things go as smoothly as possible. However with his constant threats to my mother and his daily rantings to me about taking my mom's side; to the point of frequently referring to me as a pussy and a failure and what not I finally snapped a few days before my 21st birthday and tore him a new one. I laced into him about how he had ruined both his life and the lives of our family and how I wasn't going to allow him to bully my family as well as myself anymore. Unfortunately this process had to be repeated many times before I just cut all contact with him.