Sonia comes from divorced Armenian and Filipino parents, having grown up in a conservative Filipino, Catholic household where being gay wasn’t as an option. Still, she always felt her attention drift toward beautiful women, a quiet knowing she didn’t yet have language for. Open-minded but unsure of her place in the world, she didn’t experience her first kiss until her mid-twenties. It happened on a dare, but it cracked her life wide open.
 

At 30, she came out to her father. His reaction was physically explosive - dramatic enough that Sonia genuinely thought he might be having a heart attack. They never spoke of it again. The rest of her family brushed it off as “that’s just Sonia trying something new,” as if her identity were a hobby she’d eventually outgrow.
 

Life, of course, had its own plans. Sonia met her first wife in 2000, a relationship that lasted three years. Then her second wife in 2004, a partnership that stretched across five. Sonia longed for a family and children, but her second wife didn’t share that dream with her. They separated in 2009, and Sonia started exploring every possibility to become a mother on her own. She tried IVF. She tried brief encounters meant only for conception. Nothing worked.
 

Eventually she thought, men don’t disgust me, so why not try the traditional route? Her biological clock was running out of time. She met her son’s father online; a year later, she was pregnant. They were together for 5 years but weren’t compatible as a couple. However, they manage to co-parent their now 12-year old son successfully together.