Want to share this w/ my GLBT friends: on resolving my mid-life crisis. [View all]

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Recently, I posted about my significant other and the dissolution of our relationship.

And it was a biggie, but in addition to that, there were many other kinds of misfortune and betrayal that have happened to me over the last few years. And I guess it all came together and threw me into a mid-life crisis about myself and who I am, why I am who I am, and why life has happened to me as it has. (Not so bad that I ever needed counseling - I don't really get depressed anymore.)

And just this morning, after literally years of struggling with searching for answers, I think I'm finally putting the pieces together.

I wouldn't have been able to do it without the help of tons of people, and the GLBT community here is probably one of the biggest sources of insight I've had to help me through it. I do tend to be reticent about my own life with regard to specifics, but contributing here and there from time to time, even starting a thread, many of you have helped me to decipher the various riddles and mysteries I've had.

So I do thank you all from the bottom of my heart for sharing with us (me) your own personal experiences, and listening to my thoughts, and in turn talking me through mine. It's not easy to post such experiences so publicly (maybe a little easier if you're using a pseudonym, as most of us do), but we learn about ourselves together, since as a community, we share so many common experiences.