So I continued getting the house in order for my wife's return from England when I received a very suprising e-mail, from my wife's daugthter, Sarah. Now Sarah had found out about Laura in an awful way. My and I were Facebook friends and I kept posting on her wall. Well Sarah would see those post and became suspicious until she looked closer. Looked? Yes, I had a profile picture that she could. Well she has been to our house several times and was able to recognize our living room by furniture and pictures on the wall in the background. When she looked close enough at me she was able to recognized me. Of course she asked her mom about it, who tried to explain but between embarrassment and not knowing quite what to say, she asked me to explain it. So I did. I sent a lenghthy e-mail to Sarah, trying to explain what a transsexual is and is not and more specifically about me and my transition. That was before the 1st of the year and I had heard nothing back, until tonight. What I had heard was translated throuhg my wife and generally wasn't good. Of course I knew that Sarah's feelings were reflecting my wife's, as they should. Because my wife was struggling, Sarah was upset with me for causing that pain. Well my wife has now come to the point of accepting that I am transitoning, that she loves me, and she is going to try and get to know Laura and see if we can make our marriage work.
So today I get an e-mail from Sarah. She explain the reasons for being upset with me, in part because of the hurt I caused her mother, not by transitioning, but by not doing so before I met her mum. And also, and this suprised me, because she really came to like my former self. So I sent a very lengthy e-mail back to her, taking care to explain in detail each point she raised. In the end she had also said that as her mom was accepting me, she would try as well. Well in my reply I also told her that if she friended me on facebook she could get to know me a little by what I write, I promised not to write on her wall, and also about this journal. I told her that the journal followed my journey and if she really wanted to get to know me, i would send her the link. Well a couple of minutes later I got an e-mail back saying that she'd like to get to know me and even referred to me as Laura, using my e-mail address that I gave her in my reply to her. Next was a FB friend request from her, which I immediately confirmed. Then I sent her the web address to my blog.
It was great to hear from her at all and being willing to get to know me was amazing. She is an incredible young woman and I would have sorely missed my relationship with her. I'm glad we can try to build on the one we already had.
Yes, a very pleasant suprise.
I am sincerely,
Laura Catherine
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