Waiting for Ty

This was a painless couple of hours that filled out some time. The audio is by [a:Robert Black 10993700 Robert Black https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] and it was fine. I'm being mean. It's a nice, low drama, friends to lovers story. Ty and Landon have been friends for a while, are both successful in their chosen careers (Ty is a political journalist, and Landon is a cancer researcher), who unbeknownst to each other are bi and have been pining for one another. That part gets cleared up pretty early in this novella. The bulk of the story concerns each coming out to their family, friends, and coworkers. Landon has it pretty easy, but Ty struggles, knowing his religiously conservative family won't accept his sexual orientation. This wasn't the reinvention of the wheel, but it did deal, non-stridently, with a reality many people have to face re: family, and how to navigate from a friendship to more while not losing sight of professional aspirations. I did think that the author, via Ty & Landon, gives way too much slack to others having to “get used to” seeing a gay couple, going so far as to asking them to have no PDA in their presence, and Ty & Landon, agreeing and promising not to. Efff that! I'm not a fan of PDA for myself, but I wouldn't ask someone not to do so solely based on their sexual orientation. Maybe this is my ragey day, but I've just about had it with a**holes that need others to ‘conform' so as to not bruise their fragile psyches. Anyway .... I liked the resolution, how there was happy with a helping of sad, like RL. Shockingly this is part of a series (which I didn't know), I listened to it as a standalone with no problem, and I have no intention of listening to the others. Yikes! Who am I?