Rene's Thoughts - When I met Ted

When I was girl, one of my favorite newspaper columns was Ann Landers, an advice column.  Once, she wrote about a husband that liked to dress in women’s clothing. Her response (based on seeking the advice from medical journals and experts of the 1970’s) was that it was not abnormal for a man to want to do this in the comfort of his own home.

So when my fiancé told me about what I thought was his love of women’s clothing, was actually, a need to express something even he didn’t yet fully understand, I never dreamed that years later I would recall Ann Landers article and relate to this situation... and because of this, I wasn’t freaked out.

When I met Ted, I believed he was the answer to my prayers – one of many prayers I had brought before God during a weekly commitment to visit Jesus at my church. Each week I would attend our Eucharistic Adoration --a Holy Hour—that I had found spiritually fulfilling for over a year. I believe that He [Jesus] helped me find my committed relationship, when I made a commitment to Him. It was for this reason I was able to easily marry Ted, a person that was an acquaintance of four years, but only in a relationship with, for a short time. I believe the Lord put us together.

In the first year of our marriage, I continued my Holy Hour, and I felt privileged to have been there for Him – to have had that time. During these two years, I felt blessed when I got a new job that I loved, a marriage made in heaven, a new dream house and we became pregnant with our first child.

It was all so easy...