How did you become aware of your sexuality?

My question is exactly the one in the title; lately I've had a big doubt about my sexuality with respect to women, I feel that thanks to my family's homophobic views, it is impossible for me to truly discern :c

I've never been certain. I call myself bisexual, but I have never been attracted to both sexes at once. I'm either fully homosexual or fully straight for like a 6 month to one year period. It switches and then changes back eventually, and it's been this way for me since around 1st grade. Shrug. Worrying about labels is stressful, I'd say just like who you like without putting too much thought into what you should call yourself.

i knew i was asexual the moment i discovered the label, i didn't have any issue accepting that as part of my identity - romantic attraction was where i struggled. for a while i kept ping-ponging between bisexual and pansexual, at the time i didn't know about the aromantic spectrum and wasn't familiar with all the different types of attraction, so at some point a friend of mine confessed to me, and i said "i love you" back because i DID love her, i just didn't know it wasn't the same kind of love. all the things that were considered "romantic" (late night calls, calling each other petnames like 'darling' and 'love', holding hands, going out on dates), didn't really appeal to me, but i did them because i thought i should. and maybe i didn't do those things well enough, because she eventually cheated on me, and i should've been upset (and i was to a degree, just not about her cheating, but more so that i lost a good friend after the whole ordeal. we haven't talked since-), but instead i felt relieved. i was glad the relationship was over, and i know it wasn't because the relationship was inherently bad, we were good to each other, we were FRIENDS, and in the end that's what lead to our breakup. after that, i did more research, because i realized my experience in the dating world wasn't quite as it should be, and learned about the aromantic label, the spectrum as a whole, and i finally found myself. i'm much happier now, comfortable in my identity and relationships! i hope to maybe find a queerplatonic partner sometime in the future, but still, i'm single and couldn't be more glad for it.