A couple of days ago I let a third person in on my secret. She's one of my best friends, and is the one person in my usual group of friends who is the most supportive about gender and sex issues. When I told her, expectedly, she was super supportive and even willing to go shopping with me sometime (a nice gesture, but I'm not comfortable with doing that with anyone but my GF yet).
It felt good to tell her, but I wondered why DID I even tell her? Eventually, I reasoned that I told her just so I can relieve the weight of not telling people off of my shoulders. I found the whole scenario to be somewhat therapeutic. Have any of you ever told someone just so that you can feel like you don't need to keep it hidden all the time?
-Nicole