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To think DS is gay and ‘friend’ is BF

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DenimMaker · 18/12/2025 11:39

My DS, 10, has been friends with this 11 year old boy from his football team since he joined in April.
Since about mid summerish he has been gradually going round to his and him over to ours more often. And when they’re not physically together they’re always on the Xbox playing online. I just assumed it’s his best friend and I was glad he’d made a close friendship.

However on Sunday I looked at the family laptop search history to find something I was on earlier and found searches like “boys kissing” and “guys with abs” and I was stunned. The search time was when his friend was over so they were looking at it together. I haven’t said anything to DS or DH because I don’t want to humiliate him. I want to ask him if he’s gay but at the same time I want him to tell me when he’s ready. I’m not a homophobic person so I don’t mind if he is but it’s still been on my mind all week.

Do I ask him or wait for him to ask me? Do I tell DH?

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DenimMaker · 18/12/2025 11:50

@OriginalSkang I can’t understand why they’d be looking at that together if they were not into boys.

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OriginalSkang · 18/12/2025 11:48

I don't think you can presume he's gay and that the friend is his boyfriend just from that!

ColdAsAWitches · 18/12/2025 11:48

I think 10 is too young to be labeling. If his friend was a girl would you call her his girlfriend? At 10?

KilliMonjaro · 18/12/2025 11:48

It doesn’t mean he’s gay.
Good to hear that you don’t mind either way.

KilliMonjaro · 18/12/2025 11:47

Let him tell you when he’s ready.

SarahAndQuack · 18/12/2025 11:45

If you'd found search history with 'girls kissing' or whatever, possibly you'd have a conversation with him about internet safety/respect (if you've not already)? So I guess you might do that. If it were me I would probably keep the conversation general. He'll know you know what he's searched for, but it'd be up to him to take the conversation further if he wanted to (and it could just be they searched for it out of curiosity, or because his friend has feelings for boys, or whatever).