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| - So the purpose of Living Social and similar sites is to give you a taste of practitioners without having to pay full price if you're not a fit. Thank God for this because I would not pay full price to have this woman tell me that my sexuality is a "preference" and not an orientation, nor asked if I was "firm" in my "decision" to be gay (does she ask her straight clients if they are firm in their decision to be straight?), nor build a case for my "choice" by saying the reason I am a lesbian is because I have had crappy relationships with men??!!! WTF? What straight woman (or gay man) hasn't had a few crappy relationships with men? By that reasoning, we should ALL be lesbian. And what an awesome world THAT would be.
At one point she said, "You know, we don't choose who we fall in love with." Exactly. How can you call that a preference? And then she said, "You could find a nice man one day and fall for him."
FACEPALM.
How insulting. I found this approach unprofessional, especially because I've no need to address issues regarding my sexuality. I'm gay, yay, end of story.
This was what she said, this was my truth, my experience. I felt quite judged for my sexual orientation. I'm sure PFLAG is happy to have her support, but I can't imagine her Gay Son would be too thrilled at his mother's line of questioning.
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