Such a relief

I am so thankful someone has created this. It's so discreet and I've been struggling to find an open discussion forumn. It's such a relief to be able to talk about my feelings in a safe space.

I'm 21, I recently met my uncle who I've been separated from since birth along with pretty much the whole of my dads side of the family. I've been in a relationship for a couple of years with someone and I have a son. I feel terrible, but I've had problems in my current relationship for so long. I think we're only really together for my son. I've felt so alone for so long and then I meet my uncle. And we're so similar. And I've fallen in love with him, and he feels the same about me and this situation is hurting everyone.

Forgot to say my uncle is 38

Good morning, FireAndPowder96! Welcome to KS, you're among people who get it here. A tough situation, certainly. We'll help if we can.

An admin will need to approve you for access to the private forums, but I don't see any problems. I think the best place to talk about your situation would be in GSA or Your Story.

Best,
UN

Welcome aboard, FireAndPowder96. I've upgraded your account. You should now have access to the member seditions. If you don't see them, say so and we'll correct the access.

You're still very young, so it's not surprising to me that the relationship with your son's father hasn't been close to ideal. But we can discuss this further in the member areas.

Hi, Keith,

FullMarriageEquality wrote:Welcome aboard, FireAndPowder96. I've upgraded your account. You should now have access to the member seditions.

Our members are unorthodox, but very few of them are seditious.

Believe you meant "sections."

Best,
UN

hiya & welcome FireAndPowder, I hope our forums can help you!

Thanks very much for the understanding and warm welcome everyone. Look forward to speaking to you all more

Dear FireandPowder,

Welcome to the forum! I would be interested to share more as we seem to be in similar situations -as you mention in response to my topic about the affair I am having with my half-brother who I have met a couple of years ago. I would be happy to chat with the message system or here in the forum.

Is you uncle married or in a long term relationship? Do you live close to each other? Have you met other new family apart from him? Is that going well for you?

If you do not feel comfortable answering those questions, please don't worry. I do not mean to pry, I just would like to understand your situation a bit better and I have found it very therapeutic myself to write about it and answer questions - have mostly done this on another forum. One that is very much against any GSA relationship.

I realise however that not everyone is the same and that it can be scary to write about this for the first time. Please feel free to ask me anything you like, even if you do not (yet) feel comfortable to reveal more about your own situation.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Take care,
Maria

My half brother and I were where like that. My dad had him before he met my mom then my dad died and my mom didn't want me to have contact with my dad's side. But my bro and I just started to be together. So happy for you and your uncle I hope it all works out.

Welcome to KS

Oh, and Keith, LOL at the amusing spelling mistake.

So lovely to meet you all!

Maria I totally agree with you. Writing and talking about it makes you feel so much better. I would love to talk to you more, drop me a message any time. Meeting other family went well at first but has took a turn for the worst. My relationship with my dad started well but gradually went downhill, not anything to do with me and my uncle just one of those things. My uncle lives in the same city, whereas my dad lives quite far away so that again has led to us becomming closer as we're the only two from my dads side of the family who live in the same area. He is not in a relationship which makes all this very difficult and can leave him feeling crappy when I'm not able to be with him.

Look forward to discussing with you more lovely x

Idk1194 Thank you for the understanding and warm welcome. I hope all works out for you two. If you need to talk drop me a message any time.