[AbiDrew85]

I know if we had the internet and the ability to come to forums like this.....I'd be single today.....and probably transitioned.

Or at least with someone who knew from the start and was supportive all along.

I'm out, though not technically in real transition right now despite living full time as the woman I believe myself to be, and have a supportive boyfriend who I'm living with. So being single is NOT inevitable for us.

Though hurting people when we come out may be... sadly. I hurt a number of people when I came out. Mostly my family. Most of my old "friends" have mostly forgotten the old me it seems, and we hadn't been in touch when I came out, so I didn't feel a need to let them know what happened to me.

Despite the name change being a matter of public record, none have hunted me down yet either except one, and he doesn't really talk with me despite that. Funny thing is, he originally friended me on FB under my new name because he thought my old name had married me. LOL! He'd had no idea until I outed myself to him. He was okay with it once I explained it, and hasn't unfriended me, but we don't talk either. I still find it funny he'd think the old me even capable of seriously courting a woman, let alone marrying her. While I now know I am bi, while trying to pass as a man, I was seriously relationship-phobic.