In my family, I am the youngest child. Overall, expectations have always been placed on me to be as good as, if not better than, my older siblings. Most of those expectations were kind of unsaid and not really difficult to bear but some caused my family to look down upon me when I failed to meet them. All besides one. For some reason, those expectations carried over to relationships. I am the youngest in my family, being 2 years younger than my step-brother and 4 years younger than my sister. For whatever reason, I was expected to have as many relationships as my stepbrother. I never quite understood what was going on, but every other week he was dating a different girl. My mom and stepdad didn’t really expect me to have relationships as well, they just wanted me to be me and enjoy life. However when I went over to my father and stepmother’s place, I was always greeted with the “are you with anyone yet?”. It didn’t really hurt much but what did was that when I said no, the response at some point became “Are you gay?”. I don’t get why not actively dating would make my sexuality known to anyone. It made me uncomfortable that they were assuming my sexuality was something different then it was, merely because I was not actively dating a girl to prove my sexuality. It just made no sense to me and well, still doesn’t. I don’t get the expectations from my father that as a 10y/o I was expected to date otherwise I was doing wrong as I was not like my stepbrother. A few years ago I made it clear to them that it was an issue and I wanted them to stop and well, its caused a little awkwardness in our conversations when we talk about relationships as they are respecting my lifestyle choice.