Some of us just give up on having a legit relationship fairly early in life. While youth is a big part of the equation, you can’t blame it all on being a “twink”, because there are many like this who are way past their twink stage. While heartbreak/pain is not exclusive to LGBTI people by any means, there is definitely more potential for issues that straight people don’t have to deal with. Such as internal/external homophobia, stunted emotional growth from hiding, being the “other” in society.įor me, as a teen I knew I was gay deep down but suppressed it because I didn’t want to be what I saw gay as, I.e. effeminate, getting AIDS and dying alone (This was late 90s, early 2000s in New Zealand so we didn’t have much/any positive representation). Because of this view I just threw myself in that closet and didn’t learn the emotional intelligence to deal with breakups.
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