I found myself.
Being from a country town where everyone knows everyone it’s not easy to just come out and be yourself as a LGBTQ person. I spent my early 20s pretending to be someone I wasn’t to keep my family happy and date guys because that’s what everyone else was doing and I didn’t want to be the odd one out.
After realising that I wasn’t happy and that’s not who I was and eventually getting the courage to tell my family that I liked girls and then being told that it was a phase and my mum to say “what did I do for this to happen” I entered a dark sad time and decided I had to move away from all of that to find my true self and be comfortable with myself.
Once I moved I started to try dating apps and have women only and I started to feel alive when I had dates. About a year after moving away from my family and finding myself I met an incredible woman who I dated for two years. During that time I felt more myself than I ever had, I was dressing more masc and the support I had from my partner was amazing. She let me be me and although we didn’t work out, I will never forget the way she made me feel at the time that I was finding myself and the encouragement and support she gave me to not worry about what anyone else thought.
It’s been a few years since that break up, I’m still single but I am more myself than I have ever been. I love myself! I love who I have become and I love being a lesbian!
Being from a country town where everyone knows everyone it’s not easy to just come out and be yourself as a LGBTQ person. I spent my early 20s pretending to be someone I wasn’t to keep my family happy and date guys because that’s what everyone else was doing and I didn’t want to be the odd one out.
After realising that I wasn’t happy and that’s not who I was and eventually getting the courage to tell my family that I liked girls and then being told that it was a phase and my mum to say “what did I do for this to happen” I entered a dark sad time and decided I had to move away from all of that to find my true self and be comfortable with myself.
Once I moved I started to try dating apps and have women only and I started to feel alive when I had dates. About a year after moving away from my family and finding myself I met an incredible woman who I dated for two years. During that time I felt more myself than I ever had, I was dressing more masc and the support I had from my partner was amazing. She let me be me and although we didn’t work out, I will never forget the way she made me feel at the time that I was finding myself and the encouragement and support she gave me to not worry about what anyone else thought.
It’s been a few years since that break up, I’m still single but I am more myself than I have ever been. I love myself! I love who I have become and I love being a lesbian!
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