Using birthday powers to drop a bomb on your parents

So on Tuesday night I had dinner with my parents for my birthday... regular thing, but this time it was just us. No little brother, no girlfriend or friends, and we actually had a lot of really good conversations. The wine flowed, mom got silly, and I suddenly decided that if ever there was a moment in time where I could easily segue into explaining my intimate life to them, this was it.

So I reminded them of Thanksgiving, when I brought female friend who I introduced as my friend, to join us and hang out. My little cousins saw her and kiss at one point, and asked my mom about my "girlfriend". My mom has met this girl on several occasions before, and had never seen her and I do anything but be chummy, and so she said, "no guys, that's just Sean's friend."

After premising this, I explained to my parents that in actuality, this girl and I had been friends and lovers off and on for 8 years, part of that time while I was dating Meredith. My mom looked like I'd shot her in the kneecap.

I told them that Meredith had known about this, and had also dated other people while were together, that we had had an open relationship. My mom asked why I never brought girls around, if this was the case, and I told her that if I had it would have just confused them or made them think there was something wrong with me, because it would have probably been a different girl every other time.

My dad laughed at all of this, and my mom said, "Monty, this isn't funny, your son is telling us something important!"

He just shook his head and said, "Gail, I was around in the 70's. Remember the 70's? I do, especially taking my Vette out to the street races and taking home some girls. I did this shit too."

Fucking awesome birthday present. I managed to score a level up in disclosure and trust with my family, way better than the Gphone I got.

Also, I got a Gphone.

-Sean