This year's election was a major plot twist and we are still recovering.
Well, here is one twist that actually makes us smile and makes us feel really good about the world we live in - even if a sociopath and egomaniac was just elected our president.
Glennon Doyle Melton is a well-known mommy blogger for her online community Momastry. She is a New York Times best-selling author for her memoir Love Warrior that was also an Oprah Book Club pick back in September. She is a mother of three, a Sunday school teacher, recovering alcoholic and drug addict.
Well, Melton just surprised everyone - including her ex-husband. In a beautiful post on Facebook, she came out to the world, introducing her girlfriend - soccer star Abby Wambach - for the first time, according to The Washington Post.
"Most days I decide to show up because I was right when I was little. Life is brutal. But it’s also beautiful. Brutiful, I call it. Life’s brutal and beautiful are woven together so tightly that they can’t be separated. Reject the brutal, reject the beauty. So now I embrace both, and I live well and hard and real," she writes on her blog.
She begins the letter with, "Feels like the world could use all the love it can get right now. So today, I’m going to share with you, my new love. Her name is Abby. You might recognize her from soccer. She was one of the best players of all time, and she has been a fierce and committed advocate for women’s equality for a decade."
Yes! You are right Glennon! We do need queer power couples coming out right now. Maybe more than ever.
One of our favorite quotes from the post is from her ex-husband, who asks, "Is this what all the Indigo Girls has been about?" She responds, "WHOA. I DON’T KNOW...MAYBE?" Stereotypical? Sure. But real cute as well.
Of course, Abby Wambach has her own impressive résumé as an Olympian and a World Cup winner.
And who can forget after her World Cup win in 2015, she ran and kissed her then wife, fellow soccer player Sarah Huffman! The kiss went viral and it was so big that Obama even mentioned it in his congratulations to the team.
According to The Washington Post, the two ended up divorcing "in the wake of a DUI arrest that pushed her to confront her addiction to alcohol and drugs."
We are loving this new queer power couple - reminding us that even in such times of darkness, love will find a way and light up our lives in truly miraculous ways.
Read the rest of her powerful letter on her Facebook:
