and i agree the little things sometimes have the biggest impact. i am out, and other than work, full time. my boss claims to have no "issue" with it, despite his religion, and is only worried about the effect on the business (small conservative town, mostly retiree's, very religion based culture here supposedly) and since i had planned to leave if that was the case, several months ago, it was no issue.

with several delays for various reasons, still here and will be for a few more months, but the other day we were talking about a slow down in sales (appliance store, i manager the showroom, and those a LOT of customers know me well) and he made the comment that "i guess Teresa just needs to go and do some competitor shopping (checking out their pricing for services, etc). key point is this is the FIRST time he has used my legal name since it changed. before it was usually terry, which is what i went by before, and it works for Teresa as well, so not a biggie to me, but the fact he actually used it, i was just WWWWHHHHAAAATTTT!! so maybe he just needed some time, which is fine, but just out of the blue, it was very good for me.

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