therealljidol, week 4: I don't skate to where the puck is. I skate to where the puck is going to be

[j0ydivided]

Dar told me, on our first date, that I was the sort of person her parents would hate

Comments

[bewize]

Great job. This was exhausting just to read.

[j0ydivided]

Ha, thank you. :)

[dee_aar2]

It was fiction ... it did read as a real life narrative. I always knew it had to be difficult to stand apart and this gave a realistic idea of just how much and where exactly difficult it was.

[j0ydivided]

Thank you.

[jake67jake]

OHHHHH... the feels on this... this is my wife's family to a T. Don't talk about it--but I'm welcome. Just don't cross the lines. OMG.

My hair is short-ish, I abhor dresses-although my wardrobe is a mix of mostly men's, some women's, and I do wear women's underclothes. I wore a long skirt and blouse to my daughter's wedding last year to appease the ex's family (conservative christians the lot) and felt like I was in drag myself the whole time.

Nice writing... can definitely see the pain of love vs identity.

[j0ydivided]

Thank you.

I'm sorry you can relate to it so well, and I hope interactions with your former partner's family are easier in the future.

[cheapxdate]

Wow. There are so many layers to this. It's powerful and heartbreaking and you really really make the reader feel how complicated it is. Like, I wanted to be mad at Dar for the restrictions she was putting on Alex, but at the same time it was obvious how much she was struggling to hold onto her family. It wasn't black and white at all. And while it was a work of fiction, you could really feel the honesty in it. Thank you for sharing this.

[kajel]

This was really well done.