Coming Out To Mom

[Guest NatashaJade]

Yesterday after my doctor told me to eat more and exercise more and that would be better for me than any old happy pill and my laser tech did her awesome job destroying hair follicles left and right, I went on home where my mom was waiting for me.

So she says when she sees me, "You're dressing a little more feminine now." Just a little. So we go into another room and I tell her my tale of everything and the whole time she listens and asks questions and is strangely mostly interested in my breasts. At one point, she asked me if I could have children (so she could perhaps have more grandkids).

But mostly, she just said, you do what makes you happy and if being a woman makes you happy, then I am happy for you.

And so this woman who I am as likely to insult as anything has just, at this point in my life, become the mother I always wished she would be, someone who supports me as I really need to be. And all it took was for me to become a woman. Who knew?

Last night she took a necklace off her neck and put it on me and this morning she gave me a pair of earrings. She changed my name in her address book and hugged my esposa and told her how wonderful she was to stay with me and took some pictures of me. She asked if she could tell her friends at home because she thinks it's really cool.

And I'm not quite sure why this is happening for me, that the people in my life have all been so amazing to this point. I haven't always been the best of people, I don't feel like I deserve it. I don't pray and I don't ask for anything from the universe (except the occasional wish for a winning lottery ticket). But I have good people in my life. Great people. And I don't really need to win the lottery because I get to have what so many don't and I don't know why but I won't question it.

I just found out I can both like and love my mother and my world has changed yet again.

xoxo

Tasha

[Guest Cynthia Of Creation]

I dont know natasha sounds like you got a winning ticket to me.

[Sally]

That is just fantastic, Tasha, I wish everyone could have such wonderful luck with their friends and families.

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest NatashaJade]

That is just fantastic, Tasha, I wish everyone could have such wonderful luck with their friends and families.

Love ya,

Sally

I do, too, Sally. I really do.

[Guest Mina89]

Sounds like a dream come true!

My mother's still playing this sanity-cracking mixed-signals game where she both offers uneasy and vague support while making counter-intuitive suggestions about how I should proceed. Hopefully it's just a step toward eventual acceptance, but I'm not holding my breath.

It's still awesome to hear that some people's parents come around. Congratulations!

-Valerie

[Guest Audrey Elizabeth]

Last night she took a necklace off her neck and put it on me

This nearly made me cry. I have been struggling with a deep need to tell my mom over the last two weeks, almost doing it a few times when talking to her on the phone. The only reason I have not is because my wife has encouraged me to just wait till the 17th when I see my therapist.

The way your mother responded is so much how I dream mine will respond to me and that one sentence to me sums it up beautifully. You are one lucky girl.

Congratulations!!!

Audrey

[JJ]

Such a wonderful thing. To have not just acceptance but more acceptance than you have ever known from her is remarkabel

I am very happy for you!

I will always wonder what my mother would have said. We got close the last few years before I lost her but there was always a wall there. I like to think that this would have breached it as it did with your mother.

Congratulations! No ,ayyer how much we move on acceptance by a parent is still a powerful thing

Hugs

John