A thought I'm struck by
Jan. 16th, 2026 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguistI did not expect that being lucky enough to have stable housing in my 40s would mean that I would spend it helping other fortysomething neurospicy queers get out of marriages gone bad.
We have me the failed foster (successful adoption! angelofthenorth always insisted on correcting me when I call myself this, heh), then P, now her.
It's ridiculously heartwarming seeing them both flourish and become more comfortable and themselves. (I imagine I must have too, but I can't see that and I have the complication of transition too old photos of me now look weird for the same reason old photos of my dad do: no beard!).)
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Date: 2026-01-17 12:08 am (UTC)I love that you are in a safer, happier place now. Enough so that you've been able to share it.
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Date: 2026-01-17 10:43 pm (UTC)Sometimes when people foster pets, they end up keeping one and that can be called a failed foster. I'm a "failed foster" as a jokey way of saying that I still live here -- all three of us always knew the intention is for me to stay, to be clear, so I'm just being silly. Sorry for the confusion.
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Date: 2026-01-17 11:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2026-01-17 10:43 pm (UTC)Me too :)
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Date: 2026-01-17 02:10 pm (UTC)