Hi everyone, I feel a bit silly posting something like this on a fourm, but I don't know where else to turn to.

Last night around 5:00am, my boyfriend and I were having an intimate conversaion about our pasts. We don't normally talk about this so it was a pressing and eager conversation. We have been dating for 4 months now, I'm 16 and he is 17. We are so young but very in love with one another. But he's been keeping what he calls a "demon" from me, a secret about his past.

Now my boyfriend has a very close friend whom he works with, spends lots of time with, has sleepovers with.... the normal guy stuff I suppose. They've been friends since a very yong age. Last night he informed me that they had a "bisexual encounter" a very long time ago. It makes me sick to my stomach to think and talk about, but when they were five years old and sleeping in his bed together, he says they explored each other intimately. Of course there wasn't anything they knew to do or could have done, but the very fact that this happened and that it's been haunting him for his entire life makes me extremely uneasy.

He's never talked to his friend about this encounter and it's only occured twice (in the same week) he's had many girlfriends before me but only one lasted longer than our relationship. He tells me one day he wants to marry me so he wanted to share everything with me to show that he trusted me. He assures me he's straight and has never had another encounter with a man, but thought about it once in grade school when he was feeling alone, but denied himself it, saying he loved women too much and thought the idea of being with a man was "gross". I assure you all, I have nothing against bisexuals and gays, I beleive love does not choose a gender, it's a beautiful thing that can be shared between anyone, regardless. My boyfriend is deathly afraid that I will think differently of him now and that it will effect our relationship. I'm trying to assure him not to be afraid but I myself am so shook up about this whole thing that I haven't gotten a wink of sleep since.

I've read and heard that almost everyone goes through a stage where they take an interest in the same sex, and that this interest is either suitable and pursued or deemed not suitable for the individual person and tossed aside. Is this true? Does everyone go through a stage like this? How should I feel now? What can I do? I'm just afraid my guy might leave me for another, or that there is something else I am missing. That perhaps this relationship is in fact, too good to be true.

Please someone share their thoughts on the matter with me, I have no one else to turn to for I have sworn a vow of secrecy to him.

thank you so much for reading.