Ask Matt: My Mom is Pulling Away from Me

[Shana A]

Ask Matt: My Mom is Pulling Away from Me

November 28, 2011 by Matt Kailey

http://tranifesto.com/2011/11/28/ask-matt-my-mom-is-pulling-away-from-me/

A reader writes: "I am 17 and transitioning and I wanted to ask you about parents. When I was younger, as often happens, my mum thought I would tell her anything and everything. She thought she was my best friend.

"Since I came out to her (more than a year later than I did to my dad, which I know hurt her), I have moved out and things have become difficult between us. She doesn't want to be the close, best-friend figure she always wanted to be before she knew.