Little context i discovered Bare when i was 13 im 19 now and like most 19 year olds i am a completely different person than i was when i was 13
One of the things that has changed is how i vew certain characters in Bare (13 year old me actually shipped matt and ivy🙄) One of the characters that i have drastically changed my opinion of is Peters mom Claire i used to absolutely despise her warning used to be a major skip song of mine But now i love it
I think that there are a lot of complexitys around having a queer kid in the church that i just didn't understand i saw her inability to hear him say the word GAY as her fully refusing to accept him and Warning as her trying to save her public image.
The older i get and the more experiences i have the more i realise how hard this is for her and how much she loves and wants to protect Peter. She's not worried about how people will view her (well she is but thats not her main motivation) she's worried about how people will perceive her son
At the same time she understands how scared he must be and how hard this must be for him "and i wish that i could hold him got he's all alone and scared"
She also recognises and feels bad about her own feelings and un redyness for the situation "I should be there for him i love him so but i am not prepared"
We have to remember that this is a completely different woman than we saw in Epiphany (Epiphany is Peters worst nightmare so of course everyone knows his secret) in reality Calire is blind sided by this information and Warning is her taking the time to process before she says the wrong thing witch i think is admirable
Also in some productions Claire is standing by her sons side during his boyfriends funeral (Dear Jason/ No voice) and i think that that is beautiful
In conclusion Claire loves Peter unconditionally but in her situation her sons queerness is a difficult thing to process however given the circumstances she processes it beautifully because through it all the number one person shes worried about is Peter