Hello! Let me first start off by introducing myself, for this is my first post! My name is Drew I'm 21 and I just joined the community.
I have been cross dressing on/off since I was 13 or so (not counting times when Mom, sister and I would dress up when I was very young) and went though several purges. I felt that I was Heterosexual my whole life until about the age of 17-18 but always had an extremely small doubt lingering in the very back of My thoughts.
The past 2 years have I been meditating which has done WONDERS for coming to terms with this internal ego crises. I learned ALOT about myself within those 2 years.. Now within the last few days I have come to terms with myself that I am indeed homosexual. It feels good to finally accept that about myself. I don't have to feel that impact of guilt on my soul for me lying to myself whenever someone questions my behavior. I have always had feminine facial features and mannerisms to a point where some people assumed I was gay so coming out to my family/friends probably won't be too surprising for them...maybe the part about me looking adorable in my new outfits will be a little harder for them to comprehend.
Now being kinda new to all this and still trying to wrap my head around this, I would very much appreciate any advice, info, experience that you beautiful folk can offer me to the question below. thank you!
My question for all of you is.
Why is coming out (as homosexual/CD) to your Family and Friends an important thing/step/process?