As we mentoned breifly before, we've had a bit of "a good time" telling Brittany's (core's) friend Deanna about us.

The first night she knew, she gave us a look as though we had four heads. We asked how she felt about it, if she had any questions, ect. he said no and asked if we could watch television. The worst bit of it, as you will see, is that she said she accepted it.

A couple of weeks later, Brittany and Deanna were chatting back and fourth on Youtube, and Deanna continued dropping hints something was wrong. Brittany continued to gently pry and getting no responce, joked "Now I know how you felt when I told you about 'them'", because she had stalled untill she felt the courage to let it out. The resopnce was that the problem was indeed us, she could not accept us, ect. There was a full-blown argument and we were a hair from loosing the friendship. We would have too if it weren't some friends here and one of Deanna's online friends backing us up and putting some things in perspective for Deanna. The next day she called, apologizing like mad, and agreed she would try to accept with our help; we told her we'd go at any pace she'd like, help her take in the news any way she'd like, ect. We even gave her the link to PC so she could meet us in chat, which she said she would (thanks to a wonderful suggestion by a friend here!). We didn't want to take up things too fast, so we never mentioned it after that.

Today Deanna stayed over and (Hill)Erik was out at one point. He said something and Deanna asked, "What's with the voice?" You all have absolutley no idea how much this angered us!! We all gave her a deadpan look that read, "really?" Yes, we know we took the cowerd's way out, but we don't wish to push this too hard on her, but Brittany sent her a message on Youtube, basically telling her that she needs to slowly start working on acceptance now after all they've been through. We're still waiting for a reply...

I suppose my question is this: How do we continue to move her on the path to acceptance without being to harsh? Any answer would be appriceated, thank you.

(Webber)Erik