I stumbled upon a site that gave tips on determining whether a guy was in the closet or not.
One of the commenters made me laugh out loud, though, because it reminded me of parents I've heard speculating about their kids' friends:
Thanks a lot for posting this...my 18-yr-old daughter has a guy she is getting close to...and let's just say he's under suspicion. He wears white flip flops with MULTIPLE hemp ankle bracelets, was in drama in high school, has never had a "real girlfriend" (at 21!!) He's in a band and I know many many girls have come on to him because I have been to his myspace page. He has a strict Baptist upbringing so I think he could be in denial - or maybe I'm all wet - but I definitely get that "vibe" around him.NOT WHITE FLIP-FLOPS! He must be gay. Case closed.
My mom always loved to try and figure out if I was interested in a guy friend or if we were just friends. It was usually the latter, but she loved using the phrase "he's warm for your form" because I would make this face that was, like, BRB DYING OF DISGUST.
Have your parents voiced suspicions about your friends' romantic intentions, or lack thereof?
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wtf? hemp ankle bracelets? thats probably surf jewelry. i like that stuff.
lol no.. but that guy doesn't really seem gay.. I agree with caminjammers, a lot of surfers wear that stuff & it looks kinda cool. What's wrong with WHITE flip flops?? -____^
HAHAHAHA!! This made me laugh so hard!
"I think he could be in denial - or maybe I'm all wet"
^_^
I think parents become almost like detectives when their kids get to be teens. It's a pain in the ass when you are that age, but I wouldn't be surprised if I did the same thing whenever I get to be a parent of a teen. They care, there's no doubt about it.
No.
Sometimes, but eh, not too much.
haha oh my gosh my mom totally did that with a guy my sister was dating! In her defense, the guy really was kind of a douchebag so I don't blame her...
My mom doesn't guess if I like someone- she KNOWS. So she knew I liked my boyfriend (when i didn't know he liked me) when I fooled the rest of my family.
Gosh my parents are always speculating about my intentions!
when i was a teenager, my mom ALWAYS suspected that the guys that i hung out with had bad intentions, i.e. wanted to get into my pants (which is NOT true). and no matter how many times i told her that we were just friends and nothing else, she would always look at them with suspicious eyes lol.
absolutely. my mom wrote the book on that. she can TELL when i like someone, and apparently, when someone likes me, but i'm not entirely sure about the latter. but she wastes no time jumping to conclusions if i'm friends with a member of the opposite sex, heh.
my mom does way too much. every time i say something about hanging out with a female friend she acts like i have a new gf. and she always finds a way to work it into conversations with her friends that i was ''hanging out'' with a ''girl friend'' to make it seem like i'm dating her. it gets really annoying.
well my mom's convinced one of my guy friends is gay. but he just told me he has a huge crush on this girl. i take his word for it and ignore my mom.
but my mom is more suspicious of my friendship with my best guy friend. the thing is, she's right, so it's hard to always tell her there are no feelings there.. but again. i just ignore it. but parents aren't always as stupid as you'd think (this coming from a high school kid like myself, where all my friends tell me their parents are oblivious.)
For a while, my mom was completely clueless about the fact that one of my best guy friends is gay.. even though he wears more makeup than I do! She asked me finally if we were dating, and after I laughed for about twelve minutes I explained to her that he DEFINITELY wasn't into me. Hahaha.
"NOT WHITE FLIP-FLOPS!"
well, white is the new rainbow.
My mother is convinced that my best friend of 6 years is lesbian for me... only because she's never had a boyfriend... But the truth is, my best friend just has bigger plans for herself than to be tied down! Parents are silly...
Everytime my best guy friend comes around the house, my mother tries to make him her son-in-law. And everytime my boyfriend came around, she would try to scare him into never coming back.
Most definitely have. It's just weird for them 'cause I tend to have close guy friends and close girl friends...Compared to my sisters.
LOL....my mom did that once. My brother brought home a guy friend and I started talking to him (I thought she'd be used to me talking to my brother's guy friends by now...). After he left, my mom asked me if I was interested in the guy. OMG, mom, I only spoke to him for 5mins. I think it's just her overprotective motherly instincts kicking in =P
Warm for your form! Hah!
well, my parents often do that.
I was lost after the part about the white flip-flops...
My mom knew when my friend liked me before I liked him, and probably even before he was sure he liked me. Haha. Maternal instincts are basically sixth sense. All mothers are psychic.
lol nah not really. and LOL. on the comment haha
Before my mother accepted the fact that I get along better with guys than girls, every guy friend that she might have met in passing or that I've commented about is the "new guy of the month." HAHAHAHAHA
If she met him in passing or whatever, afterwards she'd lean in and say: "he's been awfully sitting close to you.... there are so many pictures of you two!! does he likes you?"She has been doing this since I was 15, nearly a decade plus later, she has finally learned to stop. And I don't think my mom has ever considered that I'd know any gay guys....because "they" stick to themselves... oh my naive mother... lolIF I wear black flipflops, would that make me a butch lesbian? lol