December Is the Cruelest Month

huffingtonpost.com – Brynn Tannehill – Director of Advocacy, SPART*A

It was during the holiday season two years ago that I came out to the rest of my family. Among the last Janis and I told were the children, who were eight and five at the time. We had gone through what to say to them with the therapist over and over again. We had scripted carefully chosen talking points about “feeling like a different person on the inside than you are on the outside,” “making the outside match the inside,” and such.