21 People Reveal The Hardest Thing They’ve Ever Had To Explain To Their Parents

14.

That the neighbor girl wasn’t just “popular,” she was a prostitute.

15.

We went to a doctor exam to know how my dad’s cancer was evolving, we were really positive as he looked better. One of the doctors got me out of the box subtly mid-exam to talk in private. When we got out, they stayed in the gardens and I went for a stroll outside the hospital place, smoked three cigarettes in a row, lighting one after the other. I had to explain to my mom and my sister that he wouldn’t make it through the week. When I did, I remember their faces, as saying the words out loud made it become real or I was somehow killing him. Hardest moment of my life too.

16.

I was watching Me Myself and Irene and there is a scene where he is peeing after a night of sex and his pee streams were going in all directions. I was watching it with my mom and laughing really hard. she asked me “why is that happening? I don’t get it.” Well mom…

17.

That studying IT doesn’t mean I will end up working a dead end job fixing broken laptops.

Written by Laura McNairy

Laura is a freelance writer for TFLN. She likes to write about what she knows best — dating, sex, and being awkward, but usually in the opposite order. She is the Assistant Editor and videographer for Peach Fuzz, a sex-positive nudie magazine in ATX.