Coming out of the 'Broom Closet' :How I Did It and How They Took It

So if you've seen my first post I have indeed come out of the closet to the people I personally thought needed to know. Your Craft can be a secret for as long as you deem it. You don't have to tell everyone or anyone unless you want to. I only told my friends, siblings, close cousins, and my parents.

FRIENDS

My friends didn't care, it didn't change me or how they felt about me, we talked awhile and that's the way I think it should be with friends. If they do care, if it does bother them and that ends the relationship I think that that is someone you could live without. You're religion shouldn't bother the people you hang with if it does, you need to talk it out and come to terms. Because something like that can mess with how close you are with someone and it shouldn't. Lucky for me some of my friends aren't even Christian so it didn't affect much.

SIBLINGS

I have 10 or so siblings. I have one older sister, seven younger sisters not all by blood (4 biologically), and six younger brothers once again not all biological (only 2), I told all of them old enough to understand, so really my older sister. My younger siblings, all available, were there but if they understood or grasped it is of their own knowing. If you're siblings don't speak to you after you tell them, don't convert back to conform to their needs. You're religion is for you and what you believe in. If in their eyes you are damned to eternal hell-fire, then so be it! Tell them to not let it get in the way of your familial bond, don't let it change the way you both are together.

CLOSE COUSINS

I have 4 close cousins from 12 to 16, all who have been with me all our lives who are devout Christians, and wen I say devout they like going to Church, they enjoy the words of Jesus Christ their savior. When I told them obviously I was a devil worship-er because everyone who doesn't believe in God is a devil worship-er, but slowly we overcame it. As of now, because of difficulties with my father I live with them, and we do so in harmony. For already they've bent for my oldest cousin who has recently come out the closet as bisexual. It took work but they got used to the idea I don't believe the same way they do, some family members however will not take it so well. Some may disown or never speak to you. And because I didn't want to burn bridges I didn't tell my entire family, if I ever get married then of course it will show up but they will have to DEAL!

PARENTS

I told my parents second, after my friends. My father and I got into an argument especially since I used to be active in Church and 'liked' it so he didn't understand why. But I told him to deal with it, because it was what it was, his fiancee told me not to perform in her home because she didn't want ghosts and I tried to calmly explain to her that's not what I did. I went into painful detail about what I believed and why I didn't care that they didn't like that I wasn't Christian. My biological mom threatened to throw her shoe at me, but I told her it had nothing to do with her, that maybe under her roof she could pretend I was Christianity but that didn't make me so. So all-in-all I'm not talking to my father, not for that but for personal reasons, and my step-mother promises she misses me. My mother and I talk casually as if we were friends, because really that's all that we are. I never want to look at her as my mother ever again, that wasn't nor will ever be the greatest part of my life. But we speak.

So that's how I feel about all that, that's how it happened, I hoped I helped if not ask away. Hope it goes well. Don't get discouraged, and don't give up stick to what you believe in no matter how they react. In truth, all you need in life is you.