Intriguing question about coming out !

[JamieTG]

It was about age 45 for me when I started coming out and being myself in front of others. It was the late nineties at that time and I had just discovered the internet. I was emboldened when I discovered so many like myself. The other reason was I was sick and tired of of always protecting a secret. It was eating me up inside.

[abby054]

Maybe a midlife crisis thing.
This never happened to me and I never came out to anyone.

A midlife crisis seems like a viable reason. It makes sense, though I have never had one. Likewise, I have never come out to anyone except my wife. That did not go well.