Hi, everyone! It’s Jenni here!
I’ve quickly learned that we are a very special family. Here’s why:
Sean and I met in 2004 when I was a junior and he was a senior at ASU. He patiently waited for me to end a long term romance with my high school sweetheart, quietly, we’ll call it “stalking” me through a friend. Ha. Finally, when given the “go ahead” from a mutual friend, once I was officially “broken up”, Sean swooped in, and well, two months later we were engaged. When you know, you know. We were instantly best friends and spent every waking moment together from the start.
We graduated together in 2005, and started our teaching careers- he as a high school math teacher and me as a special education teacher. Fast forward to December of 2005, and we got married. In 2007, we had a little boy, Morgan. In 2009, our next son, Toby came along. We went on living our lives as a happy hetero couple… until we weren’t.
Sean publicly came out as transgender in May of this year. From here on out, SHE will be referred to as Sarah.
I knew for a long time, but I’ll save that as another blog post- I don’t want to make this ten miles long. Trust me, there’s a LOT to talk about! The boys had known for a while too, but not as long as I did. The final steps were telling friends, family and finally, our schools. Thankfully, we have been met with nothing but encouragement, support and love from nearly everyone who has been part of our journey thusfar.
When we first started navigating this world or at least looking into what in the world we may be headed into, “researching” stories, blogs, articles, just about ANYTHING reassuring for a marriage to survive, or what it’s like to come out as a teacher, parent, married couple, anything… there was very little that resulted in a positive outcome. I’m hoping this can be a place for others who may be starting their journey can find a positive place to find information or at least, relate to anything we’re going through.
We’ll both be doing updates… I imagine it will be mostly me, but we’ll always start by saying who is doing the post so you know who’s story/perspective it’s from.
Thank you for reading!
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