Hi everybody,
I'm Jade (not just a site name--it's the name I've chosen). I'm here because after 34 years of never quite fitting in and never quite knowing why, after flamed out relationships and desperate shame and confusion, and now, after 11 years of marriage and 14 years of partnership, and with a beautiful 4-year-old daughter, I have discovered who I am. It's still very early for me, and I have people wondering if this is real, if it'll pass, if I've gone crazy. But I know it's real. It won't pass. I'm not crazy. I'm me. I feel happy in a way I've never known. And sad, too, for what is lost. Trying to hold those two things together. And so here I am. This is me. Trying to find a place to be who I am, among friends who are who they are, in pleasure, in pain, in joy and in sorrow, with laughter and with love. Hello, friends.
