My family

I have possibly the strangest family ever. They’re awesome but very strange.

My mum Shaine died in December 2007. She killed herself. She had depression all her life and a long history of problems with drugs.
I miss her.

My dad is called Craig. He’s a financial advisor. His boyfriend is called Jimmy. He works for Disney. They’ve been together for like 18 years now but they say they’ll never get married because they don’t see the point.

My mum was married to Jade Rachel. I guess she’s really my step mum. I live with her since mum died. Jade Rachel and Dad and Jimmy gave me the option of who I wanted to live with. I love my dad to pieces but I don’t think I’d be able to talk to him about boys and clothes and periods and stuff because he’s a man and that would be weird so I chose to live with Jade Rachel.
I spend every weekend with my dad and Jimmy. I go to their house after school on a Friday and stay there til school starts on Monday.

Yes. All of my parents are gay. I had two mums and two dads. I tell most people when I meet them that my mum is dead, I have a dad, a step-mum and a step-dad. It is the truth and it’s a lot easier than explaining the way things really are. My real friends now.
And now so do you.

Mum and Jade Rachel were friends with Dad and Jimmy forever. Jimmy went to school with my mum’s big sister, Auntie Emily. Mum and Jade Rachel knew they wanted a family of their own. Dad and Jimmy also wanted a child. I don’t really know the ins and outs of how a gay man and a lesbian would have a child together but that’s what they did and here I am

Jade Rachel has a new girlfriend called Erin. They’ve been together a few months. Erin doesn’t live with us. Jade Rachel is pregnant because she was raped. I don’t think I would be able to keep the baby if that happened to me but Jade Rachel says it’s not the baby’s fault. I’m going to have a little brother in February called Caden Bryce (but I think Bryce Caden sounds better) only he’s not really going to be related to me at all because he has a different mum and a different dad.

I love my very strange family and wouldn’t change them for the world.

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