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This is a vent and probably a trauma dump too, although I'm probably asking for something despite my inability to word it. I'll try not to make it too specific but it needs to come out so bad. I'm so fucking lonely. It's a gigantic painful hole of solitude dug just under the sternum.

I'm slowly pulling myself out of a disastrous marriage. She has issues, I have issues, and we've been feeding each other's issues for years. I haven't existed for a long time. I haven't acted on negative or positive signals from myself in a long time. I just soaked it all up. There's still a lot of sorting out to do and it'll most probably be a whole bucket of pain all along the way.

We have a child. Our daughter's amab and she rightfully hates her mother, who's said horrible things to her throughout her life. She is predictably fucked up. She's only out as trans to me and has basically given up on life at this point. She lives at night, she dropped out of college, she's unable to cope with basic social interactions and it's become increasingly hard to get her to eat meals. She's shutting me out. I have basically no idea what's going on with her emotionally anymore. I'm ridden with guilt on so many levels.

Me and my daughter moved out of home and are staying with relatives. We have our own rooms but it's not an easy situation. We have our own psychologists and our own family doctors.

I knew my sexual orientation's fluid for a long time. I've admitted it to myself for a much shorter time. I've mostly come out as bi in the last days. What I didn't expect is how as soon as I've started to quit the heteronormative role of a cishetero husband, the gender fluidity would hit me so crazy hard. I've made some simple changes to the way I present which feel unbelievably intense and emancipating. I feel things I thought I would never feel again and others that are completely new to me. It's like permafrost thawing but in a good way.

On the other hand I also feel like a pet completely cut off from their species. I'm so. Fucking. Lonely. I have no friends, let alone queer ones. It takes a tremendous effort to maintain the faith that this is valid, that I'm valid. That I'm not being silly. That this isn't one of those mid-life crisis that men go through and that everybody laughs about. I mean I know buying an expensive sports car isn't like buying buttplugs and nail polish but still you know.

So if you read all that thank you so much and please don't be shy. I hope your day is bright! I'll go touch grass for a little while now.

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[โ€“] Maeve@kbin.earth 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

๐Ÿซ‚ It's going to take a long time to sort and process your feelings and experiences, OP. I hope you are able to give yourself grace, time and silence to do that, even a little bit at a time. I hope you are able to just sit and feel your own feelings and take time to ask "is this mine or projected at me?โ€ I hope you do this without judging your feelings as valid or invalid, before you start the work of whether they make sense and from whence they arise. I think you're really worth that. I think you deserve it, and wish you the best possible for your greater good. โค๏ธ

[โ€“] luciole@beehaw.org 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wise and kind words. Thank you for directing them at me. Pacing myself, sorting out the thoughts that are mine and not judging my own experience so harshly is something I'm working on with professional help and you're very right to remind me.

[โ€“] Maeve@kbin.earth 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You are so welcome. I know you aren't trans, but I feel like you may benefit from support from @https://mlmym.lemmy.blahaj.zone/u/Nikki from https://mlmym.lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/trans_joy

[โ€“] luciole@beehaw.org 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Absolutely! Lately I've gotten support for nail painting from the wonderful women at the Blahaj transfem community, including Nikki's :)

[โ€“] Maeve@kbin.earth 0 points 1 month ago

I'm so glad you found a support community! Those ladies are wonderful!