Finding love can be a challenge. When you are a woman with children who is married to a man and you discover that you are in love with another women, life gets very complicated.
Dear John, I Love Jane, is a collection of 27 coming out stories. The women span ages, continents and races, but they share a unique bond... they left heterosexual relationships to be with women.
The book was edited by Candace Walsh, the features editor at Mothering magazine, and her partner Dr. Laura Andre, a former university professor. The women met two years ago on Match.com not long after Walsh left her husband of seven years and was dating women. As they write in the book introduction, “We had been living on two different planets and were about to touch down on a third.”
In her introduction to the book, Dr. Lisa Diamond, author of Sexual Fluidity, says Dear John, I Love Jane “will undoubtedly expand and deepen your understanding of women’s sexuality whether you are gay, straight or somewhere in between.”
Dear John, I Love Janeis many things. It is about women with different experiences and different stories. But the common thread is about a journey and a process to self acceptance. To be sure it involves families and friends, husbands and children, but core to dealing with that aspect of accepting their sexuality all of the women had to first honestly accept who they were. When that happened the puzzle pieces began to fall into place.
The stories, written by the women themselves, some humorous, some heartbreaking, show how these women dealt with the questions and changes in their lives and where they are today... some with the same women, others still exploring.
As one woman says, “You never know where love and honesty will take you.”
Dear John, I Love Jane is available at a number of booksellers including Amazon.com.
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