11-30-2010, 07:44 PM
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Infamous Member
How Do You Identify?: Usually "Hello"
Relationship Status: Married and Bound to Tommi's kaijira (Ts_kaijira )
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Suthun.... California that is. Across the ridge from Laguna Beach.
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Originally Posted by always2late
I grew up in an strict Italian Catholic home. There were things that were never spoken of, much less acknowledged. I was raised in a family with clearly defined gender roles and, like most of the women in my family, I was raised with the expectation that I would eventually fill my assigned role, that of wife/mother. .....
.....I came out to the rest of my family, all 200+ of them, at my cousin's wedding, when I brought my very butch, head shaved, ambiguously gendered, now ex-girlfriend as my guest. Hell, if you're gonna go....go big. ;)
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Yes, you did it in a big way, and I don't think it was always2late.Thanks for letting us know that you survived that machismo upbringing. My Ex stoll can't say the word Gay around her family, of similar backgrounds. Glad you are here and now and not 2 late.
Tommi
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