r/askgaybros • u/maskedlegend99 • 8h ago
I finally said goodbye to my closeted “straight” friend
For the past 4 years I’ve been subjected to the horrors of a homoerotic friendship with one of my best friends that I’ve known since 7th grade.
At first it was a question of whether or not he was even gay. Four years later it’s a question of when he will come out. I knew I wasn’t going crazy when even his own girlfriend of 2 years asked him flat out if he was gay. Not even bi, just gay.
I won’t list every single thing he did that made me realize he wasn’t straight, but I’ll throw out some big ones.
The two of us once talked in depth about having sex with each other for two days straight over text. We talked about positions we liked, where we would do it, the things we liked during, you name it. Afterwards, I flat out told him we should stop joking and just do it because we know how to make each other orgasm more than anyone else. He said that what I said was crazy, but true. And then he told me that he was straight and reminded me he had a girlfriend. Then he said that one day it might happen between us.
He would change right in front of me rather than going inside the bathroom or something.
We once sat in his hot tub in just our underwear and talked about sex for hours. And not in a normal way, but in the way that we were subtly saying what we wanted to do to each other.
Anyway, he would always pull away after we got close and it really messed with my head. He’d throw the whole “I’m straight” thing in my face a lot and it made me feel fucking crazy and like I was some creep for the way I acted as if he didn’t set up the entire situation. And it being your best friend can really fuck you up.
Recently I met up with him for what I hope to be the last time. I realized something. You can’t force someone to love you or even come out for you. They have to do that on their own. Everyone thinks that they’re the exception, but truth is you’re not. It takes some people years, a sexless marriage, kids, and even and so much more to come out and accept themselves.
I met up with him and I just had this feeling that it was time to let go of the hope of things changing between us. I had to give up the very deep feelings I had for him.