Someone who went to one of their Christmas Concerts posted last week that they included this song and Bastien and the group received a standing ovation. I would have loved to have been there for that.
A beautiful song Bastien wrote about a personal experience in his life, and in the lives of others. Let's not forget that Home Free has never shied away from divisive topics like this, even though I'm sure they lost fans because of it. This shows that they are not afraid to speak their mind and advocate for a better world by singing and talking about inclusiveness. I still remember how much Tim LOVED the fact that they were a target by the Westboro Baptist Church.
This is such a beautiful song, but so heartbreaking. You can see the pain in his face even now that things are better for him. Adam Rupp said he couldn't stop crying while he was trying to record the percussion track. I know that they have been doing this live on their Christmas tour. I can't imagine how they are getting through it. I'm so happy to hear that you didn't have to deal with this kind of rejection.
One of my cousins came out 40+ years ago and was disowned by family. Anyone who supported them was shunned as well. This caused others in the family not to come out publicly but the extended family disintegrated anyways. In many ways that was a different time, yet we still need this song, some things don’t change as they should. Thank you so much for the tender caring heartfelt reaction.
I have told my kids that i don't care who they love or date.. i dont care if black, white, male or female.. all i care about is if youre happy and they treat you right .. i will always love them no matter what .. my babies are my babies no matter what ..
D J..... my son is 23 & extremely disabled. Can't stand, walk, almost blind, missing frontal brain, no use of his rt hand, etc.... but he is FABULOUS & soooooo much fun! He's one of your biggest fans. (We both are) He'll tell me "oh mommy, dj410 did another home free reaction & you've gotta see it! ". We are HUGE Home Fries & watch everything Home Free related. Love from Georgia, USA. ❤❤😘🤗
I'm so so glad and honoured to hear he enjoys me content and I hope my reactions bring you both some joy :D lots more Home Free songs coming over the Christmas period 🥰
@dj_410 we love you!!! ❤️ 🤣🥰🥰 I'll read him these messages & he'll giggle like a girl. 😂 in your sacred spare time, if you'd check out "musik by jeremy " home free o holy night, you'll see my son, TIM FOUST, giving a shout out to him, etc. It's just the best thing ever, the Home Free love. ❤️ thank you. 🤗😘
Bastien needs to understand that he has no worries anymore. Home Fries got him. All the way, every day. He is incredible & his husband is a very blessed man to have him. They're blessed to have found each other & us fries are blessed to welcome him to the frying pot! 😂❤❤❤❤❤
And I love so much that they have released this song with him, and are all so moved by it! Just shows how amazing they are and how they totally support and accept him as a person!
My grand nephew came out at 15 and I'm so glad that the whole family, including the older members embraced him right away and there was no change in the way he was treated by any of us.
As someone whose relationship with my mom was bad even before I came out as bi in high school, I broke down completely when you brought up found family. Because yeah, no matter how much that relationship is broken, you wish with all your heart it wasn't. Even though I'm lucky and have an awesome family that I made with the people who matter to me, the holidays are still the time when it's hardest feeling that empty spot that used to be so crucial to your being. I've cried every time I've listened to this song, but the empathy and understanding you brought in your analysis of it despite having a supportive family yourself just broke me down all over again, because you helped me see an even deeper interpretation. 💜 Thanks for all that you do, and Merry Christmas to you and yours!!
DJ, I’m so happy your family embraces you wholeheartedly and you didn’t experience the kind of pain as in this song. Home Free really knows how to get us crying and I get chills on certain parts of the song. I love that they chose Bastien to be in the group. He’s a perfect fit and his voice is amazing! Loved your honest reaction!
When my now 27 year old son came out to me there was never a question about acceptance. You are my son and I will love you from now to infinity . Just be happy is all I ask. I can not imagine what Bastien went through and I'm sorry he had such a struggle just to be accepted for who he is. I can't imagine my life without him in it.
This song is musically and lyrically beautiful. Bastein has painted a vivid picture with his lyrics, and I find this melody playing in my head regularly. I am thoroughly enjoying Bastein with our guys. His voice is smooth and clear, and he blends so well with the others. I especially love his voice with Rob’s. And he and Rob each have a heart full of soul. Wait until you hear the two of them in “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”.
Glad I'm not the only one with this song playing in my head off and on randomly throughout the day and night. This is a heartwrenchingly beautiful and well written song.
:You can tell from Adam Rupps face that he's still having trouble doing this. I've read that Bastien's parents are finally coming around but his sister isn't.
I have never understood the mindset of people who will deny someone like that. Especially family. If you loved that person 20 minutes ago before they came out to you, how can you not still love them? When I heard that they were doing this in at least some of their live shows I was amazed. It HAS to be a hard one for them to do, it is so emotional. But I also heard that the audience response that first time was everything it should have been.
It's just beautiful....we were worried about losing Austin's writing skills, but our worries weretotally unfounded it seems as Bastiene is an excellent songwriter
Absolutely broke me. But sounded Absolutely beautiful while doing so. I could never turn my back on a loved one , or anyone, because of something like this. .I think my favorite part of this video is the guys physically showing they have Bastien's back.
Sometimes I feel emotionally rejected by people like my parents because of a disability and trama. I can’t live up to work, heath and society standards. So thankful for songs like this. Thank you for your wonderful reaction.
This song is absolutely devastating and I'm so so SO impressed by it. I know that everyone sees this song differently, it's kind of why I like it. Nonetheless, I think the message that we all deserve a crazy kind of love is the one we need to take away from this... Thank you Home Free for approaching this the way you did... Thank you Carin for this amazing choice of song...
Such a beautiful and bittersweet song. So well sung by the boys. I’m so glad you didn’t have any problems. You are blessed. Have a wonderful holiday!!!
Bastein's family for the most part accept him now. He has a sister that won't come to family. Events if he brings his husband....so it's still hard for him . He wrote a beautiful song...they changed it a little to cover more things. I think the original may be on his and his husbands channel... One up duo. Thanks for the reaction...love your reactions
The best thing about this beautiful, powerful, heart-wrenching video is that it is sure to be opening some hearts and minds this Christmas and for every Christmas to come. I don't think anyone can listen to those heartfelt words so beautifully sung and not be moved in some way. Hopefully relationships will be healed because of this.
I have listened to this song about a dozen times. Every time I hear it, I get a little sadder. I have two Trans grandchildren who have been shut out by their other grandmother and much of that side of the family. ❤❤❤
Bastien wrote eloquently about the loss of a loving family community which is made exquisitely painful during holidays. There’s a reason suicidal thoughts spike at these times - they highlight fractures in relationships.
Was looking forward to your reaction. You didn't disappoint. Very poignant and introspective. There are certain HF videos which inspire extreme diversity in reactor's comments and this is certainly one of them. Everyone has a tale to tell (family or acquaintances) in some cases having nothing to do with coming out. One tried to share, through tears, of a father who had been estranged, years earlier, due to severe domestic abuse. 😢
"Every year, it feels so wrong Aching for the only place I know I should belong" "Being who I'm meant to be Made me a stranger in the house that made me me" Adam Bastien experienced one of the worst possible reactions to his acknowledgement of his own truth. My heart aches every time I listen to this song. That he found his husband and they have created their found family, and that his parents have slowly accepted his truth, are each small miracles. You can see the emotion in Adam Rupp & Adam Chance's faces. They all feel deeply the pain of their friend & brother's estrangement from his family. That they can do this song on the very first release ABB sings on speaks to the depth of their commitment to his role in the group.
I’ve always said one can’t die my/your death for me/you so far be it from anyone to live my/your life for me/you. My niece was so afraid she would lose her family because she came out. Thank the good Lord our family is accepting of all people regardless. I love your interpretation of this song as you are correct. Thank you ❤❤❤❤
I came into this reaction thinking "it's just a song, how hard can it be?" Now, as a full ass adult who has yet to come out to parents (not because I think they'll react badly, we've just never had *that* sort of conversation), I'm sat here *sobbing* . Full on ugly cry.
Over the years I've figured out that family are the people you feel comfortable with, who support you and that they're not always the people who you share the same DNA with
Such a heart wrenching song . I cry every time I listen to it 😭💔 This version has some of the words changed with the help of Tim to relate to more people. Adam Bastien and his husband Jerome did a video of this song 5 years ago with the original lyric’s it’s under their group name Bell Bastien.
@dj_410 yes, of course. My children are precious. That's it! Nothing else is relevant to be honest! And this applies equally to daughter-in-law, son-in-law and honorary children!
My eldest is Trans and she didn't come out till she was 35. I ache for her that she lived that way for so long. I loved her from the second I new she was there in me and it will never change not for anything. I support her in anything with her. I wish people could connect to the love they felt and not the control they want. Adam could always come home to my house and please, bring Jerome with.
35 years ago my best friend came out to his folks and was told not to come home …. This did not sit well with me, so I rang his father and gave him what for … he had lost 2 sons to fatal car accidents and I asked why are you so willing to throw away another child? And pointed out that his son was exactly the same person as he was the day before he knew that he was gay. Thankfully he saw the light, because my friend was the only child to support his parents in their old age right up to his fathers death and is still supporting his mother.
Decades ago, my friend - 1st generation Italian-American - left the Catholic Church. Her father, whom she had never gotten along with, dies. She went home for the funeral and was met at the door by her aunt screaming in her face, "You killed your father."
The lyrics are Adam Bastien originals - a beautiful song, beautifully sung. Of course the harmonies & beatboxing are incomparable. You have to accept people for who they are. Another heart-breaker is Austin's lyric video "When I Get Done Healing".
I have waterworks every time I hear this song. It is so beautiful and the message is amazing. I’ve been waiting for you to do this reaction and I was not disappointed.
As a teacher, I have seen the pain caused by fear of being honest at home and the pain caused when those fears come true. I know this is primarily about LGBT issues, but it is wider. Too many of our children are being pushed into the person their parents want or rejected because they are someone else. Your tears are right and we should all weep for these children no matter what age they are now.
I'm very thankful that this was not the reaction of my family when I came out.I'm pretty sure neither my father nor my sister really understand being trans, but they accepted it without understanding it. I'm still the same person. All the digital hugs to all of those whose family and friends did not react well
My ex- step daughter is now "gay" & ive met her girlfriend & shes just beautiful. They are beautiful together ❤ Can't we just love people for who they are?!! ❤😢❤❤
From what I've read -- and other Home Fries can correct me, here -- some of Bastien's family has come around, but others haven't. HE is begrudgingly welcome...but his husband is not. I cannot comprehend it.
About your comment that the wronged person shouldn't be the one asking, while it's true that the invitation should come from the wrongful side, sometimes to achieve reconciliation, the person in the right has to forgive and take the first step.
It is definitely a complex topic and would definitely depend on the situation. I just think that in situations where one person has done nothing wrong other than choosing to be true to themselves, they should not feel the need to forgive without any gesture, apology or effort on the part of the person who has caused them so much harm. Again, it definitely depends on the people involved and the situation and I'm not saying it's wrong to reach out and start the conversation, just that in this context they have done nothing wrong and shouldn't be the one who feels they need to bend if that makes sense...
My children and my grandchildren are my children and my grandchildren…. straight, gay or in between. It doesn’t matter. I love them unconditionally and it doesn’t matter. I don’t get the thinking that a parent turns their child away. It’s so wrong.
Absolutely! I was just speaking to what Adam's original meaning behind the song was, as I understand it, Tim worked with him to change some of the lyrics to make it more applicable and relateable to everyone which is wonderful :) either way, love from family should not come with conditions :)
Are you lucky or are you being treated like every human should be by being accepted by their familes? I get your point and appreciate you, but man I can't believe humans treat each other that way.
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I can’t stop telling people that I’ve never been more proud to be a fan of Home Free. I love the imagery of the guys coming to stand behind Bastien.
Someone who went to one of their Christmas Concerts posted last week that they included this song and Bastien and the group received a standing ovation. I would have loved to have been there for that.
"Let me explain this in small words: You are my child, and I love you. That's the entire conversation."
A beautiful song Bastien wrote about a personal experience in his life, and in the lives of others. Let's not forget that Home Free has never shied away from divisive topics like this, even though I'm sure they lost fans because of it. This shows that they are not afraid to speak their mind and advocate for a better world by singing and talking about inclusiveness. I still remember how much Tim LOVED the fact that they were a target by the Westboro Baptist Church.
@@andreaislandgirl720 the "ring of fire kiss" fan video is so epic!!! 🔥 🤣🥰🥰🥰
This is such a beautiful song, but so heartbreaking. You can see the pain in his face even now that things are better for him. Adam Rupp said he couldn't stop crying while he was trying to record the percussion track. I know that they have been doing this live on their Christmas tour. I can't imagine how they are getting through it. I'm so happy to hear that you didn't have to deal with this kind of rejection.
Hoping anyone who’s estranged from family finds grace and love this season.
One of my cousins came out 40+ years ago and was disowned by family. Anyone who supported them was shunned as well. This caused others in the family not to come out publicly but the extended family disintegrated anyways. In many ways that was a different time, yet we still need this song, some things don’t change as they should. Thank you so much for the tender caring heartfelt reaction.
I have told my kids that i don't care who they love or date.. i dont care if black, white, male or female.. all i care about is if youre happy and they treat you right .. i will always love them no matter what .. my babies are my babies no matter what ..
@@NiCoLe_HaRLeY_KiNG1216 absolutely 💯 ❤️ ♥️
D J..... my son is 23 & extremely disabled. Can't stand, walk, almost blind, missing frontal brain, no use of his rt hand, etc.... but he is FABULOUS & soooooo much fun! He's one of your biggest fans. (We both are) He'll tell me "oh mommy, dj410 did another home free reaction & you've gotta see it! ". We are HUGE Home Fries & watch everything Home Free related. Love from Georgia, USA. ❤❤😘🤗
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I'm so so glad and honoured to hear he enjoys me content and I hope my reactions bring you both some joy :D lots more Home Free songs coming over the Christmas period 🥰
@dj_410 we love you!!! ❤️ 🤣🥰🥰 I'll read him these messages & he'll giggle like a girl. 😂 in your sacred spare time, if you'd check out "musik by jeremy " home free o holy night, you'll see my son, TIM FOUST, giving a shout out to him, etc. It's just the best thing ever, the Home Free love. ❤️ thank you. 🤗😘
@@minneyruth hey Ruth!!!! 🥰🥰🥰
@dj_410 can't wait!!! My son will tell me if i miss a thing. That's for sure. He's obsessed with your home free reactions. Lol we love ya🥰
Bastien needs to understand that he has no worries anymore. Home Fries got him. All the way, every day. He is incredible & his husband is a very blessed man to have him. They're blessed to have found each other & us fries are blessed to welcome him to the frying pot! 😂❤❤❤❤❤
And I love so much that they have released this song with him, and are all so moved by it! Just shows how amazing they are and how they totally support and accept him as a person!
@dj_410 have you reacted to "everybody walking this land"? Our guys do NOT shy away from their collective beliefs! God love 'em....🥰❤️
@@dj_410 and what a beautiful person he is. I'm so happy with their choice of him. Look into him & his hubs singing
... they are incredibly good!! 😍
Perfectly said! I’m with you 100% and with Bastien 100%!
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My grand nephew came out at 15 and I'm so glad that the whole family, including the older members embraced him right away and there was no change in the way he was treated by any of us.
As someone whose relationship with my mom was bad even before I came out as bi in high school, I broke down completely when you brought up found family. Because yeah, no matter how much that relationship is broken, you wish with all your heart it wasn't. Even though I'm lucky and have an awesome family that I made with the people who matter to me, the holidays are still the time when it's hardest feeling that empty spot that used to be so crucial to your being. I've cried every time I've listened to this song, but the empathy and understanding you brought in your analysis of it despite having a supportive family yourself just broke me down all over again, because you helped me see an even deeper interpretation. 💜 Thanks for all that you do, and Merry Christmas to you and yours!!
DJ, I’m so happy your family embraces you wholeheartedly and you didn’t experience the kind of pain as in this song. Home Free really knows how to get us crying and I get chills on certain parts of the song. I love that they chose Bastien to be in the group. He’s a perfect fit and his voice is amazing! Loved your honest reaction!
When my now 27 year old son came out to me there was never a question about acceptance. You are my son and I will love you from now to infinity . Just be happy is all I ask. I can not imagine what Bastien went through and I'm sorry he had such a struggle just to be accepted for who he is. I can't imagine my life without him in it.
The Ruppster got very emotional doing this song...
This song is musically and lyrically beautiful. Bastein has painted a vivid picture with his lyrics, and I find this melody playing in my head regularly. I am thoroughly enjoying Bastein with our guys. His voice is smooth and clear, and he blends so well with the others. I especially love his voice with Rob’s. And he and Rob each have a heart full of soul. Wait until you hear the two of them in “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”.
Glad I'm not the only one with this song playing in my head off and on randomly throughout the day and night. This is a heartwrenchingly beautiful and well written song.
:You can tell from Adam Rupps face that he's still having trouble doing this. I've read that Bastien's parents are finally coming around but his sister isn't.
I have heard the sister still refuses to have his husband in the same house as her.
That's a shame. 😢
Thank you DJ. Hugs for everyone who needs them
This is such a powerful song - thank you for giving us your heartfelt perspective on it.
I have never understood the mindset of people who will deny someone like that. Especially family. If you loved that person 20 minutes ago before they came out to you, how can you not still love them?
When I heard that they were doing this in at least some of their live shows I was amazed. It HAS to be a hard one for them to do, it is so emotional. But I also heard that the audience response that first time was everything it should have been.
It's just beautiful....we were worried about losing Austin's writing skills, but our worries weretotally unfounded it seems as Bastiene is an excellent songwriter
To everyone in the LGBTQ+ community we see all of you and u r loved
Sending hugs to all that feel alone this Christmas and/or holidays. This song makes me tear up every time.
Absolutely broke me. But sounded Absolutely beautiful while doing so. I could never turn my back on a loved one , or anyone, because of something like this. .I think my favorite part of this video is the guys physically showing they have Bastien's back.
Sometimes I feel emotionally rejected by people like my parents because of a disability and trama. I can’t live up to work, heath and society standards. So thankful for songs like this. Thank you for your wonderful reaction.
They can come to my house for Christmas. I just want to reach out and give Bastien a big hug 🫂❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🐇
I feel the same way. I can't imagine turning away from anyone, especially my kids, just because of who they love.😢
Huge HUGE (((((HUGS))))) to him. ❤❤
This song is absolutely devastating and I'm so so SO impressed by it. I know that everyone sees this song differently, it's kind of why I like it. Nonetheless, I think the message that we all deserve a crazy kind of love is the one we need to take away from this... Thank you Home Free for approaching this the way you did...
Thank you Carin for this amazing choice of song...
Such a beautiful and bittersweet song. So well sung by the boys. I’m so glad you didn’t have any problems. You are blessed. Have a wonderful holiday!!!
Bastein's family for the most part accept him now. He has a sister that won't come to family. Events if he brings his husband....so it's still hard for him . He wrote a beautiful song...they changed it a little to cover more things. I think the original may be on his and his husbands channel... One up duo. Thanks for the reaction...love your reactions
The best thing about this beautiful, powerful, heart-wrenching video is that it is sure to be opening some hearts and minds this Christmas and for every Christmas to come. I don't think anyone can listen to those heartfelt words so beautifully sung and not be moved in some way. Hopefully relationships will be healed because of this.
I have listened to this song about a dozen times. Every time I hear it, I get a little sadder. I have two Trans grandchildren who have been shut out by their other grandmother and much of that side of the family. ❤❤❤
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Glad they still have you there giving them unconditional love ❤️
This song is really heartbreaking. Big hugs for anyone who feels like they don't have anyplace to go
Bastien wrote eloquently about the loss of a loving family community which is made exquisitely painful during holidays.
There’s a reason suicidal thoughts spike at these times - they highlight fractures in relationships.
Was looking forward to your reaction. You didn't disappoint. Very poignant and introspective. There are certain HF videos which inspire extreme diversity in reactor's comments and this is certainly one of them. Everyone has a tale to tell (family or acquaintances) in some cases having nothing to do with coming out. One tried to share, through tears, of a father who had been estranged, years earlier, due to severe domestic abuse. 😢
"Every year, it feels so wrong Aching for the only place I know I should belong"
"Being who I'm meant to be Made me a stranger in the house that made me me"
Adam Bastien experienced one of the worst possible reactions to his acknowledgement of his own truth. My heart aches every time I listen to this song. That he found his husband and they have created their found family, and that his parents have slowly accepted his truth, are each small miracles.
You can see the emotion in Adam Rupp & Adam Chance's faces. They all feel deeply the pain of their friend & brother's estrangement from his family. That they can do this song on the very first release ABB sings on speaks to the depth of their commitment to his role in the group.
I’ve always said one can’t die my/your death for me/you so far be it from anyone to live my/your life for me/you. My niece was so afraid she would lose her family because she came out. Thank the good Lord our family is accepting of all people regardless. I love your interpretation of this song as you are correct. Thank you ❤❤❤❤
I came into this reaction thinking "it's just a song, how hard can it be?"
Now, as a full ass adult who has yet to come out to parents (not because I think they'll react badly, we've just never had *that* sort of conversation), I'm sat here *sobbing* . Full on ugly cry.
Sending you lots of love! I hope you know you deserve love exactly as you are and don't need to hide any part of yourself ❤️
Over the years I've figured out that family are the people you feel comfortable with, who support you and that they're not always the people who you share the same DNA with
Such a heart wrenching song . I cry every time I listen to it 😭💔
This version has some of the words changed with the help of Tim to relate to more people.
Adam Bastien and his husband Jerome did a video of this song 5 years ago with the original lyric’s it’s under their group name Bell Bastien.
I have watched this video several times and I love the song, but your true heartfelt reaction broke me. Bless you DJ x
Awww thanks Lyn 🥰 I hope in a good way? Haha
@dj_410 yes, of course. My children are precious. That's it! Nothing else is relevant to be honest! And this applies equally to daughter-in-law, son-in-law and honorary children!
This made me cry 😢 my husband has a cousin that married to a man and some family members are so mean about it. It's disgusting 😢💔
I have two members of my family that are gay and to me they are just like anyone else. We are all Gods children. ❤️🐇
@bunnyhollingsworth5954 i agree 💯💯 🥰
But he has the important people. The ones who support and love him. Like you and your husband
@kimking6036 absolutely 🥰🥰
This song breaks my entire heart every time I hear it, and I've heard it like 20 times.
Thank you for your great reaction!
My eldest is Trans and she didn't come out till she was 35. I ache for her that she lived that way for so long. I loved her from the second I new she was there in me and it will never change not for anything. I support her in anything with her. I wish people could connect to the love they felt and not the control they want. Adam could always come home to my house and please, bring Jerome with.
35 years ago my best friend came out to his folks and was told not to come home …. This did not sit well with me, so I rang his father and gave him what for … he had lost 2 sons to fatal car accidents and I asked why are you so willing to throw away another child? And pointed out that his son was exactly the same person as he was the day before he knew that he was gay. Thankfully he saw the light, because my friend was the only child to support his parents in their old age right up to his fathers death and is still supporting his mother.
Sending hugs your way. I went through something similar very painful
This one is heartbreaking.
Decades ago, my friend - 1st generation Italian-American - left the Catholic Church. Her father, whom she had never gotten along with, dies. She went home for the funeral and was met at the door by her aunt screaming in her face, "You killed your father."
The lyrics are Adam Bastien originals - a beautiful song, beautifully sung. Of course the harmonies & beatboxing are incomparable. You have to accept people for who they are.
Another heart-breaker is Austin's lyric video "When I Get Done Healing".
thank you to Home Free for this song. Thankyou DJ-410 for your gentle positive commentary. May grace,love and acceptance grow all year for all.
This one broke many hearts.
I have waterworks every time I hear this song. It is so beautiful and the message is amazing. I’ve been waiting for you to do this reaction and I was not disappointed.
Beautiful song. Beautiful reaction
As a teacher, I have seen the pain caused by fear of being honest at home and the pain caused when those fears come true. I know this is primarily about LGBT issues, but it is wider. Too many of our children are being pushed into the person their parents want or rejected because they are someone else. Your tears are right and we should all weep for these children no matter what age they are now.
I admit I teared up some the first time I heard it.
I'm very thankful that this was not the reaction of my family when I came out.I'm pretty sure neither my father nor my sister really understand being trans, but they accepted it without understanding it. I'm still the same person. All the digital hugs to all of those whose family and friends did not react well
So pretty
My ex- step daughter is now "gay" & ive met her girlfriend & shes just beautiful. They are beautiful together ❤ Can't we just love people for who they are?!! ❤😢❤❤
From what I've read -- and other Home Fries can correct me, here -- some of Bastien's family has come around, but others haven't. HE is begrudgingly welcome...but his husband is not. I cannot comprehend it.
About your comment that the wronged person shouldn't be the one asking, while it's true that the invitation should come from the wrongful side, sometimes to achieve reconciliation, the person in the right has to forgive and take the first step.
It is definitely a complex topic and would definitely depend on the situation. I just think that in situations where one person has done nothing wrong other than choosing to be true to themselves, they should not feel the need to forgive without any gesture, apology or effort on the part of the person who has caused them so much harm. Again, it definitely depends on the people involved and the situation and I'm not saying it's wrong to reach out and start the conversation, just that in this context they have done nothing wrong and shouldn't be the one who feels they need to bend if that makes sense...
My children and my grandchildren are my children and my grandchildren…. straight, gay or in between. It doesn’t matter. I love them unconditionally and it doesn’t matter. I don’t get the thinking that a parent turns their child away. It’s so wrong.
Inclusive of all not just sexuality……
Absolutely! I was just speaking to what Adam's original meaning behind the song was, as I understand it, Tim worked with him to change some of the lyrics to make it more applicable and relateable to everyone which is wonderful :) either way, love from family should not come with conditions :)
Are you lucky or are you being treated like every human should be by being accepted by their familes? I get your point and appreciate you, but man I can't believe humans treat each other that way.
Oh I've been waiting for you to do this one 🫂 Looking forward to it.