...sexuality and find a partner? My mum has never been comfortable with her sexuality, but things got a lot worse recently. Mainly because her long term partner (Who helped raise me and was there my whole life) Sara recently died due to breast cancer. My mum has let many bigoted assholes get to her and she is beating herself up, afraid that she is "unnatural" and that she doesn't deserve happiness unless she changes.
She's made some unwise decisions since Sara's death, far from the least of which being an attempt to be "Normal" where she went out with a man and only ended up hurting both of them because he came close to her and that is when she admitted she didn't truly love him. My mum is very depressed and very lonely, and I am growing concerned because I want to see her happy.
But no matter what I do, I can't seem to get her to overcome her fears and go out and find someone. Would it be a good idea or a bad one to try and set up a date by meeting some members of the GLBT community here?
Any advice on how to help her be comfortable for who she is and find happiness in a partner would be very, very much appreciated.
She's made some unwise decisions since Sara's death, far from the least of which being an attempt to be "Normal" where she went out with a man and only ended up hurting both of them because he came close to her and that is when she admitted she didn't truly love him. My mum is very depressed and very lonely, and I am growing concerned because I want to see her happy.
But no matter what I do, I can't seem to get her to overcome her fears and go out and find someone. Would it be a good idea or a bad one to try and set up a date by meeting some members of the GLBT community here?
Any advice on how to help her be comfortable for who she is and find happiness in a partner would be very, very much appreciated.