Family day

Well, today is Family day - a provincial holiday here in Alberta. The ironic thing is I dont have mine - Mom's working, and Sam is with her mother. I just tried phoning them, but Sam was in the shower as they had just got back in the door from swimming. I've been thinking a lot about relationships. The fact is, much of our identity is tied up in our relationships to others - we define ourselves as someone's child, or someone's spouse, or what have you. And whether I want mine to or not, they will all change as my gender changes. Mostly, that will be good, as I have always dreamed and wished to be treated like a woman, but there is one relationship I worry about - the one with my daughter. I'm scared she's going to hate Dorothy for taking away her Daddy, and I don't think I could bear that. Ah, well.