I mean, I'm with a lot of y'all here, but particularly jadelennox. Yes, LW, you shoulda told your mom (unless it was like last week and you're still raw), and not doing so was a waiting for something awkward to happen. But yes, I get it - some conversations with your parents can be so excruciatingly exhausting that you just never want to do it. Belieeeeeve me I get it. There are a couple of topics that I dread talking with mum about, and I love her deeply and see her almost every day. Relationships, sex, and gender are the big ones. If your mom is of a background like mine, those are minefields. But sometimes the hole you walk around to avoid it is so big and obvious that you do have to point it out and have that hard conversation - because any other conversation about the hole will be even harder - because someone will have fallen in.

But, good news - this will pass, and you will have learned a thing or two about what conversations need to be had, and now you just need to figure out how to have them when the time comes. (You might also, as a side effect, have a better idea of what conversations don't need to be had, and how to avoid them.)