Coming Out: To The In-Laws

[Guest NatashaJade]

Okay, so perhaps, giddy with success this past weekend, I am recklessly running away from the closet. Becca told my friends Robert and Alina, who know a number of transfolk and are totally supportive of me. Robert just wants to make sure I remain focused on my creative work, which of course I will. Right now finishing my novel is a major priority and as an artist, expressing myself beyond what I write on a blog is a major part of my life.

So today, I decided to tell my wife's parents. I have been nervous about telling them because they are from an older generation, but at the same time, they are super cool people and while I was nervous and could see some possibilities where they might be upset by this, at the same time, I could also see where they would be supportive of me because, like my friends, they care deeply for me and want me to be as happy as I can.

So I told them and they were super supportive. Happy I wasn't announcing an imminent move away from Phoenix, they were relieved in some measure that it wasn't something worse. My mother-in-law laughed that now I would know what hot flashes were like and I told her I already did and we shared that moment. My father-in-law was concerned about our marital relations and shared about his marriage a bit. But overall, it was as nice a coming out as I could imagine. And then we went out for bar-be-que. And then we got caught in a massive hail storm.

A crazy night all around. But a really good one. A my wife likes to say, I am waiting for the other shoe to drop. I am worried about my family, but less so than before. I have so many good people in my life who support me and come what may with my blood family, I have a large family of friends and relations who are with me and give me strength and comfort.

love to you all

Virginia

[Guest Elizabeth K]

COOL - I hope the mood holds! It should I think...

GOOD FOR YOU!

Lizzy

[Carolyn Marie]

More great news, Gin.

Listen, hon, just because you're on a roll, doesn't mean that roll has to end anytime soon. Keep rolling those sevens, Gin.

You've got a great hot streak going!

Carolyn Marie

[Guest sarah f]

Wonderful just Wonderful Gin. I am so happy it went well for you. I can only hope to have as much success coming out as you.

[Guest Donna Jean]

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So happy to hear that, Gin.....

Your "coming out" is going wonderful so far...

And the more that you're out to, the less that you have to remember how act around!

I love reading this first thing in the A.M.

Goof for you, GF!

Huggs

Donna Jean

[Guest NatashaJade]

And the more that you're out to, the less that you have to remember how act around!

This is the best part of it all, Dee Jay. I can just be myself, even if myself isn't that much different than I have been all along. It is subtle and not so subtle differences, but I don't have to think about those things with so many people in my life now. Now I can simply be. And, next summer when it's time to go swimming, I won't have to hide out in the house. I can buy a nice 1-piece and not worry because my in=laws don't care what I swim in so long as I used their pool

love

Gin

[Cyndee]

And, next summer when it's time to go swimming, I won't have to hide out in the house. I can buy a nice 1-piece and not worry because my in=laws don't care what I swim in so long as I used their pool

love

Gin

Excellent Gin, gotta love those 1 piece(s), mine is a floral print, enjoy the splash !

Hugs Cindy,