Coming Out to My Long-Time Girlfriend (part 1)
This is a tough topic, but I want to talk about what it was like coming out to someone that I'd been in a relationship with for 8 years. Neither of us were ready to deal with the stress and strain. We had no guideline or template of what staying together would look like in this situation. There were times when we thought we were doomed to break up. It was scary as hell, and I'm going to get into all of it, but first, I want to give you some background. When people ask us how we met, it's kinda of an awkward story. See, I met Phoebe when she and I were doing a community theater production of Annie Get Your Gun. At the time, she was 11 and I was 17. We were NOT dating at this time, obviously, though about this time in the story, people usually crack the same jokes. "Robbin' the cradle". "May-December romance". "You just like girls who's shoes light up when they walk away, huh?" The usual. No-no. Nothing like that. She was just this we...