About Speaking the Ineffable
This is Speaking the Ineffable, a newsletter about radical honesty, surviving the crisis of modernity, the importance of plain language, the integration of the self, and finding the sacred in the mundane—values I honed as my now ex-husband Jamie came out as transgender, plummeting a cherished fifteen-year relationship into a death spiral.
I’m Shannon Thrace, author of 18 Months: A Memoir of a Marriage Lost to Gender Identity.
As a sexually adventurous, politically liberal woman with a history of dating women—who was deeply in love and committed to supporting my spouse—I represented the best case scenario for the partner of a transgender person. But I was blindsided by the unusual demands of gender dysphoria and learned the hard way that compassion, communication and even love sometimes just aren’t enough. Like Glennon Doyle Melton's Love Warrior, my story is a fierce defense of love in the face of loss, culminating in self-discovery and reinvention.
18 Months is available in ebook and paperback on Amazon.