Dear Gloria Letters (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781463734367)

I'm a divorced, mature, middle-aged woman living in Southern California. I was born and grew up in San Diego and got married when I was a young twenty-two years old. Soon after my husband and I got married we left California and moved to the Midwest and started a family. We lived on the outskirts of a small town for a little over thirty years. During that time I raised three kids, was a good mother, and I tried very hard to be a good wife even though I endured many years of deep, personal frustration. You see, during our marriage I was never allowed to express my own sexual desires and needs so I simply learned to suppress them. After the divorce I moved back to Southern California and I got a good job, my own apartment, adopted a homeless grey cat I've named Toledo, and began to finally, let myself accept the reality that I'm a very sexual woman with strong needs and, contrary to what I'd been told for all those years, there is nothing wrong with wanting to be sexual and satisfied. I started a blog and website as a way of exploring and understanding my own sexuality. It was through them that I received so many letters from visitors to my sites.