A relationship that ended and this was part of it

My family's reaction was the hardest part and I have had to accept that some of them are not going to come round.

What I would say is that telling people is a separate decision from doing it, and you can take as long as you want over the first.

My sister started too, six months after me, and it has been unexpectedly lovely to have somebody in the house who understands.

My partner was frightened for me, which came out as disapproval, and it took a long time to hear it as the first thing.

I would have written the same thing a year ago, word for word.

He does the injection, which was his idea, and it turned out to be a way for him to be part of something he had felt excluded from.

Coming back to say we are fine, that it took about eighteen months, and that the conversation I dreaded most was the one that fixed it.

My partner came to a family event with a prepared subject change and deployed it three times, and it was the kindest thing.

Adding a name to the list of people this helped.

I would say pick one person to be honest with completely. Mine was my brother and having one person who knows everything has been enough.

Coming back to what Bess wrote further up, because it is the bit I keep thinking about.

We used to eat together in a particular way and that changed, and neither of us said anything about it for months.