"Theirs was the storybook marriage that inspired others. For over twenty years, and after three faced marriages, Marcy had everything she had ever dreamed of in her husband, he was passionate, romantic, spiritual, generous, funny, loving, and… he cooked. She finally had someone who would love her as much as she could love. There was just one problem… a secret that could to shatter this storybook marriage.
One fateful morning, her husband came out to her - Her Scott was transgender. A woman trapped in a man’s body, her man’s body. Marcy felt her love, her world, her place in it, and her ideal marriage were instantly threatened. Marcy would have to scrutinize all that she held dear, examine her own identity and ultimately face her deepest fears."
In her brutally honest account, Marcy leads the reader into a dark night of the soul that would last five years, while she simultaneously battled ovarian cancer, with compassion, intelligence and wit.
In 2017, I interviewed Scotie Jeanette Madden and asked her about love: "It is all there is. I couldn't do my life without love. I wouldn't live without love. I would've been dead long ago. Love for me is "Mylove," that's her name, my wife Marcy of 28 years this April.
Without her love, I would've never had to courage to live my life. It was her love that showed me that my fear of losing that love was a crutch, an excuse. She still identifies as a cis-hetero woman who is married to and totally in love with a woman. Totally in love with me. She makes it possible to be me."
In 2015, Scottie Jeanette Madden published her memoir "Getting Back to Me": from girl to boy to woman in just fifty years".
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