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By Lauren Apfel
@laurenapfel

I came out in The New York Times. Well, I didn’t come out so much as construct public, very universal, the direction in which my sentimental life was going after I had separated from my husband of 19 years. We decided the marriage was over in January. I made my first forays into online dating in the months that followed and by May I’d had an experience—with a woman—that inspired an essay I promptly submitted to Current Love.

Up until that point, I’d kept the nature of my romantic being largely to myself and a not many close friends. There was nothing to tell, it felt. Nothing to inform yet, at any rate. I certainly wasn’t discussing it with my kids. In addition to having to deal, all of a sudden, with the realities of divorce—the emotional and logistical deconstruction of the only life they’ve ever known—what kid, especially what teen/tween, wants to newly confront their mother as a sexual being?

But when, much to my surprise, Modern Love acknowledged the essay, my hand was forced. Late the tracking January I received an email that led to the piece appearing o