I was raised by two gay dads. Ask me anything

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's your favorite comfort food?

matzoh ball soup.

Are you Jewish? Not that you have to be Jewish to eat Matzo Ball soup but you DID say you grew up in NYC. If so, did your dads raise you in the Jewish faith? Synagogue, Bat Mitzvah, etc.? Just curious.

[Anonymous]

What did you call them?

Dad and Daddy, for example?

Or did you use their first names?

[Anonymous]

What is your occupation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you ever want a female role model in your life? Or did you feel your Dads played that role well enough?

Was one the softie and the other was the rules man, or did they each play both roles?

How often did you hear, "Ask you father?" I would imagine that game could go on for a while...

Wow, you're all obsessed with this female role model thing, aren't you? Look, both my dads have mothers. D's grandma lives with his parents and lived close to us, so I spent a lot of time with my grandma and great-grandma. C's mom is very nurturing, though lived farther away. C has two sisters and I'm very close with one of my aunts, and his two best friends are female. Plus all my friends and their moms were around. There were women in my life, is what I'm trying to say.

No, there was not a standard good cop/bad cop thing going on. I knew who to go to for what. Want a new comforter? Go to D? Want to try this new food I heard about? Go to D. Want to get better at swimming? Go to C. Want to travel somewhere? Go to C.

Lol, it happened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's your favorite comfort food?

matzoh ball soup.

Are you Jewish? Not that you have to be Jewish to eat Matzo Ball soup but you DID say you grew up in NYC. If so, did your dads raise you in the Jewish faith? Synagogue, Bat Mitzvah, etc.? Just curious.

My dads are not Jewish. I married a Jewish guy though, and converted while we were engaged.

[Anonymous]

Are your parents married?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What did you call them? Dad and Daddy, for example? Or did you use their first names?

I called them the weirdest things. One I called Da-da. The other I called Coppa. (don't know why) (rhymes with Jimmy Hoffa) When I was a teenager I decided I was too cool for such babyish names and shortened them to C and D (which are also their first initials).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are your parents married?

As of 2011, baby!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is your occupation?

Physical therapist.

[Anonymous]

Do you have children? Is that why you made your way to DCUM?

[Anonymous]

Are you an only child? How many siblings??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is your occupation?

Physical therapist.

Wonderful! I hope you are a real person saying all of this stuff!! We have no way to tell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you have children? Is that why you made your way to DCUM?

Yes, I have one, and am pregnant with one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you an only child? How many siblings??

Yes, only child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What did you call them? Dad and Daddy, for example? Or did you use their first names?

I called them the weirdest things. One I called Da-da. The other I called Coppa. (don't know why) (rhymes with Jimmy Hoffa) When I was a teenager I decided I was too cool for such babyish names and shortened them to C and D (which are also their first initials).

Is one Italian, by any chance?