Hi, Thanks for reading this blog. I've been going through some things, having therapy because of various things in the past and things that I've been trying to work out and move past. Part of that is that I realise that I can be terribly co-dependent - for example - and that I have a powerful inner critic that can lead me to self sabotage a lot of the time. This last week I've set some of the things that were bothering me to rest. First, I'd been questioning my gender identity. For a long time (probably most of my life) I've questioned what it means to be male and a man. The images I was shown as a child, the stories I was told, never felt like they fitted me - and I always felt like I was a bit of a cuckoo in the nest. I was a dreamer and I've always found making friends hard as well, so that positive reinforcement of masculinity never really happened for me. To be honest, I've always preferred the company of women - which probably added to that cuckoo fe...