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As long-time readers are aware, except for a couple of individuals, I'm not precisely out at work. I talk about everybody in my life, I just don't use relationship tags for anyone. People get called by name when I talk about them, which I do regularly, often in contexts like 'we're going to visit Tammie's cousin' or 'Chris's parents are coming to see us' or 'we all went to see the Hobbit at that new dinner theater' or whatever.
But today, Thuy had come to ask me some work-related questions. She saw our family picture on my desk, and she asked me who the picture was. For some reason I don't comprehend, I just said, 'that's my girlfriend and my boyfriend and my daughter and me'. She made me repeat myself several times, asking 'her boyfriend' and things like that, and I just repeated the original statement or replaced 'my' with 'our'. I'm pretty sure she went away thinking I was taking the piss, despite the absolute and complete truth of every word.
People see what they want to see.
But today, Thuy had come to ask me some work-related questions. She saw our family picture on my desk, and she asked me who the picture was. For some reason I don't comprehend, I just said, 'that's my girlfriend and my boyfriend and my daughter and me'. She made me repeat myself several times, asking 'her boyfriend' and things like that, and I just repeated the original statement or replaced 'my' with 'our'. I'm pretty sure she went away thinking I was taking the piss, despite the absolute and complete truth of every word.
People see what they want to see.