Do I Have to Define My Sexuality?

What I’ve always thought was openness might just be a defense mechanism, or a cop-out.

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I think I was 13 when I told my mom, half-jokingly as a way to test the waters, that I might someday end up being with women. She didn’t love it.

“It’s just that I’m worried you’re going to have a much harder life than you need to,” she…