Welcome to Struggle Session, where I respond to comments from Lovecast listeners and Savage Love readers. (Forgive me for not getting this post up yesterday! I hit “save” instead of “publish” after it was ready and didn’t realize what I’d done — mistakes were made — until the middle of the night.)
Vin sent a question via email…
Sixty-five-year-old trans guy here. Not a relationship question in the strictest sense, unless you include my relationship with my sanity. Your talk at the top of the post-election episode convinced me that there is no one who gets it more than you do. So I ask: With what is coming, I think it’s vital that we keep ourselves informed as they begin dismantling our country. I can’t bury my head in the sand… but doing a quick check-in morphs into doomscrolling and I still have PTSD from last time, when I woke up every morning fortifying myself for whatever he’d fucked up overnight. Simply put, Dan,...