Your story is very much my own. I did not come out until I was 42 after 20 years of marriage and 3 kids. My entire life before that now seems like endless trauma.

This trauma has hardly abated in spit of nearly 30 years of being out and proud.

I lost my youth and believe I still have PTSD that will never leave me. There is no cure for what was done to us.

Thank you for your beautiful insightful writing.