Me and my son talked about us, religion, his sexuality, etc. I think it went ok

I was finally able to sit down with my 24 year old son and have a heart to heart. I had found out from my church that he had a podcast where he talked about things. It was mainly mental health related because he was diagnosed with bipolar at 15 and schizophrenia at 17. Then it morphed into other stuff to do with his sexuality. Him working in SW as a side hustle. Him getting his ex girlfriend pregnant at 15 and then getting an abortion that I had no idea about. It all got my shamed by our church that I had been going to since I was a kid. The one that got me in a lot of trouble is when he was talking on his podcast to some girl about our church and our pastor though he didn't name him and how weird the gender neutral purity ball was because the pastor made his daughter get up on stage and read a letter he wrote saying how her virginity and body belong to her father. This was 10 years ago btw. And how he made her go around to each boy and say that until they marry her her body is her father's. It was a little weird but I don't think our pastor is a creep. Anyway that got me in a lot of trouble with my church but we finally sat down and talked.

I told him I heard about his podcast and he was surprised because he knows I'm not a fan of podcasts and didn't think anyone at the church would listen because the name is a little raunchy. He apologized and said he wasn't trying to get me in trouble. It was just his coping skill. I asked him about the abortion because finding out that I had a grandchild broke me. He said he was told by his girlfriend's older brother that if you stand up after having sex you can't get pregnant because it comes out and he was shocked when she got pregnant. He told her that his family would kill him and she was worried about not being able to get into a good dance academy so her step mom took her to get the abortion. I tried not to cry hearing that. I told him I wished he had come to me and he said everything worked out the way it needed to. We talked about religion and he said he does denounce his religion and he is not sorry for what he said about our pastor. He thinks he's a creep and has issues with our pastor in the past blaming him for his mental health issues for letting Satan in and is the reason he went so long unmedicated. I told him I was sorry for letting him go unmedicated for so long and I shouldn't have listened to the pastor about that. I told him we will probably have different opinions on my pastor but I will take responsibility for him being unmedicated and a pastor had no right in that decision. Apparently there were other things said to him by our pastor but I didn't know about. Then we talked about his SW. Because he has an only fans. We didn't stay on that topic long. He said he does it and he likes it and he makes money. I said I don't like it but he's grown and that's his choice. Then we talked about his sexuality. He told me that he did realize he might like boys at the purity ball and he's experimented and identifies as a nonbinary bisexual. He explained nonbinary to me and I still don't get it but I told him okay. I just want us to be close. He said he's willing to work on it if I'm willing to look past my religion when it comes to having a relationship with him. I told him I will do my best. He did invite me to come on his podcast and I said no. Not a podcast fan. I'm hoping moving forward we will be okay and get close.

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