Comfortable discussion (Story Prompt for Wednesday)

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"No! No! This is unacceptable!", screamed my grandfather, "it was bad enough that you lived this sick lifestyle, but now you want to get married?"

"What will people say?", exclaimed my grandmother, close to tears.

My uncle, Rohan had announced to the family that he was going to marry his long term boyfriend, Soham. While my parents had been supportive of him living his truth, my grandparents and many other relatives were very uncomfortable with it. They avoided the subject, and treated Soham like nothing more than an acquaintance on those rare occasions when they did see him.

It was "fine" as long as this wasn't being, in their words, "being shoved in their faces". But when uncle Rohan announced that he and Soham were going to marry, my grandparents objected.

My parents and I tried to explain to them that homosexuality is perfectly natural and there's nothing wrong with what Uncle Rohan and Soham were doing.

After we used logic and scientific evidence to counter all of their arguments, they pulled out the children card.

"Have you forgotten that there are small children in our family?", my grandmother asked my dad, "Have you given a thought to how this.... this display will affect them? Your own son is only nine years old! How will this affect him?"

"Grandma, we'll simply tell Dhruv that they're getting married because they love each other. Just like mom and dad love each other."

"No, you don't understand! It's not the same!", said grandpa, "he'll have questions."

"So we'll answer them.", my mom replied.

"Do you want to traumatised your child?", grandma asked.

"Dhruv has been to weddings before. There was nothing he didn't understand.", dad chimed in..

"And he has seen romantic couples in movies and TV shows before. If that didn't traumatise him, this won't either.", I told them.

My grandparents exchanged a look, as they began to calm down a bit.

They were all out of arguments when my mother said, "Gay people exist. Just like the rest of us. And they can exist in the life of a child. We just have to sit down with Dhruv and tell him that his uncle Rohan is marrying a wonderful man. I can assure you, that will not be uncomfortable, and certainly will not traumatise him."