DARYL SUMMERS, 27, PROPERTY MANAGER, SWINDON, WILTSHIRE
By the summer of 2015, I had been with my partner for seven years. To the outside world though we were just good friends and I felt as if I was missing out on a huge part of my life because my friends moved forwards with marriage and children while I was living with my parents, running a start-up business in Kent, only visiting my partner in his apartment more than 100 miles away when I wasn’t working.
I was sacrificing my happiness because of the fear of being confronted by hate, disappointment and rejection.