| Summary: | 碩士 === 亞洲大學 === 心理學系 === 107 === The purpose of this study is to explore their family interactions, feelings and coping strategies of tow lesbians who wanted but chose not to come out to their parents. This research adopted purposive sampling and convenience sampling to recruit two participants. A semi-structured interview was used in this qualitative research. There were three major research findings. Firstly,-three main reasons why they were unable to come out were a) lack of proper timing, b) fear of destroying the current parent-child relationship, and c) lack of personal preparation. Secondly, both participants experienced feelings of entanglement and contradiction which would negatively influence their family interactions. Participants even felt marginalized since they cannot present the real self when interacting with family members. Lastly, avoiding talking about sexual orientation and related topics with parents, being over-involved with work or volunteering to transfer to other cities,and drinking or singing karaoke were their ways to cope with their frustration resulting from failing to come out to their parents. Improving financial ability was considered as the process of preparing to come out. Implications for future research and counseling practice wrer provided.
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