Hi Postoplesbian, It does happen, I met my partner online, actually right here on Susan's chat 7 years ago.
I had already surrendered and accepted the fact that being trans that I may as well settle in for a singles life for the rest of my life.
And as you say, I didn't know anything about loving myself, let alone another. Well I had a lot of love in me but not the kind of love you need to have in a relationship. That kind of had been beaten out of me many years back, so I had resigned to living the rest of my life alone.
But since I still had the desire, a desire I had always had for as long as I can remember. I accepted and resigned myself to be whom I felt to be within, I corrected that problem with SRS.
My mate Wing Walker taught me how to love again and we got married in Ontario Canada 5 years ago and have lived together for 4 years. It can happen and it does. Don't let anyone kill or steal your dream.
Cindy