The Death Threat of My Mom's Affair

"I didn't know there was an affair but I do looking back think that maybe my mother used me as emotional support," he says. "She probably thought that she can handle it, you know, like it wasn't, she wasn't scared so much at the time." Eric's mom would drive him to school and have conversations with him about gay issues when he was nine years old. His dad abused his sister in a similar way while they were growing up; neither of their parents ever told them what was happening.

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