'There are old stereotypes: lesbians move in with one another too quickly, we're already going out with a new partner before breaking up with the last. But even if the stereotypes are true of some lesbians, do they have to be a bad thing?'
There's a famous saying:"There is no hierarchy of suffering." This feels especially true of breakups, the great equalizer. We can't always predict how they’ll affect us, or correlate the length of the relationship with the agony we might feel. However, there is something distinct about, I think, as someone who identifies as one. Not worse, but different.
Like all first loves, it felt like something that I had waited so long for was shattered. Making things worse was the fact that I felt unsure if I’d get it again. In the years that followed, I seemed to adopt a pattern that proved this to be true: falling in love with girls who identified as straight. Some were not out as bisexual or gay yet and I watched, in real time, as they went through the difficulties that I went through as a teenager, from confusion to shame.
This feels especially true for Sara."I think the intensity of the breakup circles back to who do you turn to? My family circumstance was difficult in that , and culturally you didn’t talk about that." This meant that discussions of a same-sex breakup were off the table.
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