Family Love

On Thanksgiving Jodie spoke with her dad on the phone. He said to her “so, your spouse is translucent?”

Knowing that her dad has Parkinson’s and quite a bit of resulting dementia, Jodie only recently began discussing my transition with him. She said “well yes dad, my wife is transgender.”

He said, “well the only photo I have of you two is from before, and it’s really hard to explain it well to my friends.”

She says “So dad, would you like a picture of us?”

He replies “Well, yeah!”

She says “Dad, that makes me feel very loved.”

He says “Well honey, I have always loved you!.”

Okay, now I’m crying again! lol I did use this opportunity to convince her that we need more recent photos of us to send to him. These shots are from hopefully the first of 2 photo shoots.

Personally, my relationship with Jodie’s father has not always been the best. When I was sixteen he threatened me in front of my parents and got my dad all sorts of fired up! So to hear him ask for our photos literally made me cry with joy. Such a small sweet thing. And to think, he really was the last of the family to be told of my transition, and yet he was the very first one who asked for photos of us. Wow.