feeling comfortable with yourself

[Jennifer Williams]

When you find the place you belong, not only do you feel happy and free but you find you can't even resist it; you're drawn to it like air.

willing_slave, I'm so glad you appreciated my remark! I can't take all the credit; the way I phrased it is mine, but the idea itself is actually something I got from my sister, as she has grown in her struggle to accept herself as a Christian lesbian.

She too was absolutely miserable when she tried to date men, and now she's finally at peace with herself and I've never seen her so happy (and she's been with her girlfriend for a year and a half, her longest relationship ever).

Sorry if that was a little off topic, but my point is that you will find true happiness when you accept yourself for who you truly are, and stop trying to make yourself be what everyone else says you should be.

[skittish doe]

my point is that you will find true happiness when you accept yourself for who you truly are, and stop trying to make yourself be what everyone else says you should be.

Thanks for that reiteration. I think I am going to write your quote down, in ball point ink on the inside of my forearm. (Not really -- but thanks so much for your above point)