Getting out of the closet with my sister

Hi all!

A little story from today:

I went shopping for some Xmas presents with my sister. She's 28, I'm 31. We entered a beauty supplies store. I was there standing, waiting for any of the SAs to help me, but nobody did! I guess that they didn't because I'm a guy, 'cause an SA started talking to my sis even when I was there looking at the merch. Anyway... I stepped in the middle and asked the lady for a foundation for my skin color, which made the lady change her expression to a classical "what tha heck!". She showed me some of the stuff they had, but I didn't buy any of that... The good thing was that my sis didn't do any weird expressions to me, so I started thinking about telling her about my CDing. She's very understanding anyway and has some gay friends, so she shouldn't be upset about it, I thought.

After that we went to another store to get some jewelry and we did great, had a lot of fun. I'm good at picking girly stuff (whay would it be! :battingeyelashes:). After all the shopping, in the car back home, I opened a pic of mine en femme, and I tried to tell her about it, but words just couldn't come out... Then I thought "WTH! She's young like me, she's very mature and she loves me, she must understand! I want her to know" so I parked the car at a quiet place and told her "I want to tell you something. It's really private and only my GF knows..."
-"What is it? You breaking up with Nana? You like guys?"
-"None of that" - laughs. "I don't like guys, never did, but I've always loved wearing woman clothes..." - I went all blushed!
My sis was all blushed too!
-"Ta daaah!" - I showed her the pic on my cell phone.
She was really shocked at first, but then she said: "I can't believe it! You look so pretty! You look just like me!"
She hugged me and I broke in tears! I was so scared, but happy at the same time. She's the first -and I guess the only one ever- to know about this in my family. We talked a lot about the subject, and at the end of the conv, she told me that I can trust her and she'd love to go shopping with me any time. I also asked her what she thinks about the people who likes this, and she said that she's very happy for me and for anyone who does what makes 'em happy and don't live a life of frustration. I told her about this community, and she said it's great to have this supportive groups. I think this is very helpful for understanding myself :)

I think that her reaction was so much nicer than I expected. I felt that I have a true friend in her, and now I'm so excited about sharing tips, info and shopping days with her. I bought her a very nice Christmas present. I think she earned it today!

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I want to wish you all a very happy Christmas. Try to be with the people that you love. Forgive, hug, kiss and celebrate life! No matter how hard things get, time will make us strong enough to go through any stuff in our way!

Hugs!
Humana

That's awesome, Humana! It's great to have supportive people like your sister in your life. My sister was supportive from the start when I came out to her a couple of years ago. It has helped us become closer, knowing we can be open and honest with each other. Best wishes to you and your sister!

Best X-Mas present ever that ...

GOOD for you!!! I am so happy your sister was supportive. You are very lucky indeed.

Merry Christmas to you and yours. May all your personal 'outings' be as good as this one went.

That is such a beautiful story! It must feel wonderful to have shared that with someone you love and gotten the positive reaction. Thank you for sharing the happy thoughts!

What a wonderful sister you have.

Good to hear about an reveal with a positive and Happy ending.

All the best for an improving relationship with your sister and the best for Christmas as well.

So pleased that your sister has taken your coming out to her so well, and hope that you both will have lots of shopping trips in the new year.
Best wishes
Martina

Awesome story! I'm happy for you!

Humana that was a great story, and I'm so happy for you both.
Enjoy the holiday time.
Hugs

Hi Humana,

What a wonderful and heart felt story. It is always nice when we can connect with someone and they don't find it weird or abrasive and that someone being a close member family is priceless. Thanks for sharing.

Hugs

Isha

wow thats great! Congratz. The only person I told was my wife. she told a couple of her close friends and my older brother who surprisingly was cool with it.

I wish I had the same relationship with my sister,but I firmly believe she would be alarmed&sound the alarm&tell my other siblings.This has been a secret for years,as
I used to wear mothers clothes,in the beginning.I would dress in her outfits,after she left for work in the morning.I would lift a fresh,unopened brand new pkg of her
pantyhose,put them on&spend the morning,dressed in one of mothers expensive skirtsuits,wearing a pair of her heels&borrowing one of her wigs&sitting at her
makeup table,doing my makeup

What a wonderful post to read on a Christmas morning! May you and your sister have even more to share through the years.

Congratulations Humana. I'm so pleased for you.
Merry Christmas dear.

Gotta say, that was an abrupt introduction, but you obviously know your sister well! I do think her reaction mirrors that of many younger people, far more accepting.

Since a picture is said to be worth a thousand words: :thumbsup: !!!

Best Christmas present, ever! (Well, except maybe for a gift certificate for a full MAC makeover...) ;)

Wonderful sister you have

Thanks for all your warm replies! I hope you're all having an awesome time!
Hugs!

You have a great sister Humana Lucky girl.:hugs:
Angie

Great story, Humana!

Your seem to be very comfortable with who you are, so other people reflect the same back to you. I'm glad that your sister was so understanding. Do you wonder how it would have been if she wasn't OK with your cd'ing? I guess that doesn't matter anymore. Good story!

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Originally Posted by DeTerminator

Great story, Humana!

Do you wonder how it would have been if she wasn't OK with your cd'ing? I guess that doesn't matter anymore.

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Well, I guess that most of the time what makes you avoid telling other people is the fear of not being accepted. This time I could only compare the feeling of telling my sis, to be on a really fast and scary roller coaster LOL! You know... that emptiness in the stomach at first, but once you went down, it feels awesome!!!!

Hugs!

Humana,
Try not to fall into the trap of thinking that's all she wants to talk about, otherwise you'll soon lose her support, don't forget she's also a GG so she will only accept so much, even being a caring sister !

So thrilled for you!

My wife knows but it's DA-DT. What I wouldn't give to have a friend to share the fun with!

Thank you so much for your clever advice Teresa! :) Hugs!

Hi Humana,

It's really nice that your sister has enough inside her to accept you as you are. Lovely outcome to an unplanned event/personal outing. Have an epic 2015 and onwards.

Any chance you can pass a portion of your sister over to me in the UK? I lost the one sister I could have told a few years back now, my other one is a little old fashioned and would be horrified, I know.

Rebecca

Hi Humana,
What a lovely story & a fabulous outcome - I'm really pleased for you that your courageous leap of faith has given you some all important support from a family member & hopefully the chance to learn some first hand tips on tricky things like make-up as well as fun times out shopping.
GiGi

I'm happy for you Humana. I shared the secret with my sister in 1980, but we didn't talk about it too much, and I had no photos to show her. I can empathize the feeling of getting it off your chest. I never could talk about it with anyone else in my family my entire life. Maybe you can ;)

all this comes from the girl who on her last THREAD said how much she was uncomfortable with her famalam at the holiday......glad to hear your dreadfull holiday hanging out with your family turned out well.......that is awesome.....see...it wasnt so bad was it ?????????????????????????????????????? me and my sister are all good like that too ! xoxo

So true Adriana!! This has turned into one of the greatest holiday seasons EVER for me! Thanks for reading my other post ;)

That story just made my night! Congrats =)