How do you know if your bisexual?

I knew that I was bisexual when I was about 8 years old. I never imagined coming home to my parents house with a boyfriend, always with a girlfriend. I knew that I didn't find males or females either less attractive than the other. I was about 12 or 13 when I had my first real kiss and it was with a girl my age. I've always known that I felt attraction for a person as who they are not as whatever gender they are. So basically it's if you start feeling equally towards males and females. Sometimes it is hard to tell though unless you, honestly, actually spend time around everyone to see where you are most comfortable.

There is no definite way to know that you are bisexual but in my personal experience, you know when you experience attraction towards both someone of your own gender and someone of the opposite gender. For me, I realized when I started feeling attracted towards a girl I knew. Initially, I thought that it was just affection towards a friend becuase I would get excited to see her and want to talk to her all the time but after analyzing my feeling I realized I felt more than friendship. I wanted to walk around holding her hand, hug her, and make her smile. I wanted to know what her lips felt like against mine. I wanted to know what kinds of restaurants and foods she liked. I was deeply attracted.

That's a great question. The simple answer is that if you are attracted to both women and men, then you are bisexual. Of course it's not that simple. I think there are different levels of attraction which can change over time. I'm bi and I've been married to a woman for years. I have an emotional and romantic attachment to my wife that has fluctuated from intense to waning over the years. I also have a physical attraction to men which has been anywhere from 0 - 10. So to answer the question, I think our sexuality is fluid. At least that's been my experience.

If you're attracted to both sexes and not just one or the other. You may prefer one over the other, or only have past experience (e.g., dating and sexual encounters) with one and not the other, but you can still be bisexual if you get attracted to both sexes. Sometimes, it can be hard to know. Sometimes, you might wonder for a while and are not sure of it. It can take an "awakening" experience for you to realize it. Accepting it can also take some time as you might not want to be at first. But there's nothing wrong with being bisexual.

It's different for everyone. Some people feel drawn to both guys and girls, some people realize after having celebrity crushes, and others realize after they've kissed a boy or a girl or had a crush on a boy or a girl before. It's kind of a process, where it might be a while until you realize it, and it might help talking to other people who are bisexual and getting their stories of how they knew to help you figure out if you are or not. Whichever your case is, it's a process and a journey wrapped up all into one.

Bisexuality can be a scale. Not just on or off. It can extend from mostly liking same sex and only a little opposite sex to mostly like opposite sex and only a little same sex. Don't be afraid to scale your feelings and then change that as time goes by. Curiosity is a scale slider for sure. You can have feelings of bisexuality then explore them and lose interest. Or you can explore them and realize you desire same sex type life. You don't really know until you start to explore. The important part is to be honest with those around you and yourself. Don't push yourself one way or the other and don't limit yourself by people who have expectations of you only one way or the other. To bravely explore is to know what you are dealing with but to stand still is to only experience what you already have.

A bisexual person can feel sexual or romantic attraction to two genders. You don’t have to feel equal attraction to both, it could be as much as you like, it’s up to you what percentage you like of one gender and what percentage of the other. It doesn’t matter if you’ve only been in a same sex or heterosexual relationship before, if you feel that you are bisexual, then that’s what you are. Remember that you can change this anytime! You might realize one day that you don’t really feel an attraction to a specific gender and that’s okay. You are always growing and there’s no race to figure out who you are

Bisexuality is attraction to both men and women. Usually people find out that they are bisexual by developing crushes on both males and females. If you can be attracted to both men and women sexually, physically, and emotionally, you are most likely bisexual. Do not feel pressure to label yourself though, you can take as much time as you need to find out who you are, and you do not need to care about labels, if you do not want to. It can be easier to label yourself to prevent explaining yourself further, but it is not always necessary.

To put it simply- you must be attracted sexually/romantically to both members of the same sex and the opposite sex. When you experience attractive members of either sex, how do you feel about them? Could you see yourself potentially sleeping with this person? Perhaps dating them? Committing to them? I always know I liked the opposite sex, but I was always hesitant to even compliment pretty girls. It made me very shy and uncomfortable and I couldn't figure out why. Sometimes they would jokingly kiss or grab each other and I never liked to play like that because of the way it would make me feel- it wasn't just a game to me and I knew it was for them.

I think that as a bisexual, it's something you just know. I don't know how old you are, and I'm sorry if this is wrong, but I'm going to assume you're young. You're young and you're still developing. You might think that you like both girls and guys and that might be true but it might not be. I think you should experiment, see what you like. Mix it up. Chances are you might just be straight but willing to try anything. I'm bisexual and when I was younger I thought it was just a phase but now that I'm older i realize that it was something I just knew all along in the back of my mind. I just think you shouldn't assume something if you're not completely sure yet. I don't know if this helps, but if you want to go more in depth, please talk to me.