**Wouldn't it be great if one day being transgendered was considered as normal as being cisgendered? I think so.**
Yes, absolutely. More sensible and supportive, certainly. I would hate it if any of my daughters avoided me because of narrow beliefs when the fact is, is that none of this really matters. No, it does, of course it does! but it's part of the whole and no reason to make things more dramatic or over the top than needed or wanted. Well, it really is about loving each other no matter what, children, siblings, spouses, everyone. Or at least not basing acceptance and approval on something so not really another person's business, anyway.
Bob and I have managed all right, I think :). I read a great thing in Reader's Digest when I was a young woman, and it's basically this: When I was a young wife, I resolved that I would make a list of ten things I would always forgive my husband for. The trick is, is that I never wrote any of them down, so when he does something that is just so maddening I can hardly stand it, I think, thank goodness that's one of the ten
I have personally used this old anecdote several *ahem* times LOL.
Another thing that happened was that I was really venting regarding something or other that drove me crazy about him--something little, you know? and a friend of mine paused, giving me enough time to remember that her husband had died several years earlier. She said, "If he died (meaning Bob) that would be something you'd miss."
Mostly, though, marriage is great and a lot of fun, sometimes in a train-wreck sort of way, but still... :-). You'll do fine, I feel it.
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Yes, absolutely. More sensible and supportive, certainly. I would hate it if any of my daughters avoided me because of narrow beliefs when the fact is, is that none of this really matters. No, it does, of course it does! but it's part of the whole and no reason to make things more dramatic or over the top than needed or wanted. Well, it really is about loving each other no matter what, children, siblings, spouses, everyone. Or at least not basing acceptance and approval on something so not really another person's business, anyway.
Bob and I have managed all right, I think :). I read a great thing in Reader's Digest when I was a young woman, and it's basically this: When I was a young wife, I resolved that I would make a list of ten things I would always forgive my husband for. The trick is, is that I never wrote any of them down, so when he does something that is just so maddening I can hardly stand it, I think, thank goodness that's one of the ten
I have personally used this old anecdote several *ahem* times LOL.
Another thing that happened was that I was really venting regarding something or other that drove me crazy about him--something little, you know? and a friend of mine paused, giving me enough time to remember that her husband had died several years earlier. She said, "If he died (meaning Bob) that would be something you'd miss."
Mostly, though, marriage is great and a lot of fun, sometimes in a train-wreck sort of way, but still... :-). You'll do fine, I feel it.