Family

[OneBallBoi (imported)]

How many others here feel like the message board participants are you real family. I know I do. I care about so many here. They are such special people.

[tugon (imported)]

I very much agree. I have received support from the EA family in very important ways that I was not able to ask from my biological family. I was not able to ask and would not be sure they could provide what I needed. With all our shared emotions and struggles many of us have bonded.

When I make it to a MOM this August I will be going to a family reunion.

[JesusA (imported)]

While, in many ways, I’m only an outsider looking in – an anthropologist studying the eunuch community – I certainly feel the sense of closeness that has developed here. I consider many of this group to be very good friends, some of whom I have now met in person, others only by Internet or telephone. A couple of people here, Paolo and Thefraj, I certainly consider as family. They are far closer than most of my biological family. And certainly much nicer.

This is truly an amazing group of kind and gentle folk. When Riverwind and Sag111 came to visit me at my house, my wife was horrified. “How can you invite such scary people to MY house!” When they left at the end of the day, she turned to me and asked, “Why can’t you have more friends as nice as they are?”

I agree with Tugon – the MOM is going to feel like a family reunion.

[truly committed (imported)]

aww im new here, but you sweetie pies...

[Kangan (imported)]

I agree about "family" feelings for this group. However, there are a few of you I definitely would not invite over.... And a bunch more who would be instantly welcome.

I do want to thank those of you who have provided me with advice and support, and even a few reality checks.

I mentioned this in another thread, but I also have found out a lot of things about "intersex" and TG that I was ignorant of. (Not sure that I needed to know these things, but....)

Anyway, I love this place!

[bobbie (imported)]

Yes there are many families that have formed from people visiting this site. I have meet several that are in a committed relationship. (Life Partners)

Their are many that find the people in this site the only place where they can talk about certain topics that are very frowned upon by the general public.

Meeting someone from this site in person is a experience that is very hard to describe. The emotions that run through you is one that you look back on as one of the more important days in your life. To be able to go and touch and feel someone that has the same desires as you have. They are not judging you as a strange person, someone that must be crazy having such desires.

You sit down and talk to each outer and often find that you may share far more similarities then expected. Many of us go through life thinking that we are so strange and often crazy having desires. Being with others and sharing experiences helps us find ourself. Yes we are really not bad people. We are just a little different in some ways.

Going to one of our sites Meeting of Members ( MOM) is somewhat like a family reunion. We all share things that regular families could never understand. You can make friends that very well could be closer to you then your real family.

I think many in here feel that this site is part of their extended family at least. For many of us it is a real family.

[OneBallBoi (imported)]

I did not know "Dingbat" at all. I saw the name a few times on the board but really did not pay attention. But tell me that Eunuch Archieve is not a FAMILY seeing what people are saying in postings about her. Thank God for this family and the support it has for one another. Thank God for the men that had the insight to start this support in the beginning.

[strassenbahn (imported)]

The way in which EA members of such different stripes -- straight, gay, eunuchs, transgendered folks, those who've actually been castrated, are seriously thinking about being castrated, or who (like me) know it is best to limit castration to the world of fantasy -- not merely get along but offer mutual support to one another suggests that the EA is a more functional "family" than many.

[homptydumpty (imported)]

i like the fact that everyone here has the right to speak openly about topics of importance.

i feel more comfortable talking about life here on the eunuch archive than i would around the dinner table.

to be able to express ones self is a given right. that is what i feel the archive is for me, a healthy channel to communicate feelings and thoughts of my neutered life.

thank everyone for being here to participate in one of a kind discussions and convesation.

z

[sag111 (imported)]

I to have found some wonderful people in here and even when other things upset me i always come back to see my friends here.And yes River and I spent a wonderful day with Jesus that day I just couldent understand how the time went by so fast.