Jack wrote in about a hard conversation with his dad, but not the one about his sexuality. We asked you all to tell us about the most difficult conversations you've ever had, and the ones you haven't had yet. He wrote in to us back in the spring, around the time that my book called Let's Talk About Hard Things came out. He wanted to protect his family's privacy. Jack is now 30, and that's not his real name. This this is the truth." And he said, "Okay," and we never really had any friction about about my sexuality after that. The thing that he said to me, I'll never forget this, he said to me, "You know that everything's going to be harder." And I was like, "Yeah, but there's no other way. She looked at me like, "Yeah." But I suppose she and dad had not talked about it because my dad just stared at me for a solid 30 seconds slack-jawed.
J: My mom said, "Tell me something I don't know," and my dad was shocked. So, Jack nervously sat his parents down and told them. I'm going to know where I'm going to be tomorrow." And I was like, "Okay, if this goes poorly, I'm going to be okay. Then I got a part-time job on campus, so I knew I could pay for my room and board. J: The way I got myself psyched up to do it is that I figured out my scholarships for school, so I knew school was paid for.
He was in his first semester of college and home for Thanksgiving break in West Virginia, where I'm also from. Jack came out to his parents when he was 19 years old. The show from WNYC about things we think about a lot. And that's, I think that's more likely to be hurtful. This is, this is a little bit more like saying I'm not the person you think I am. JACK: I think the first time I came out, I was saying, I'm your exact same son.
Just a quick heads up, this episode contains mentions of gun violence and suicide.
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