girlfriend's letter

[so-la-ragione.livejournal.com]

hey guys!  first of all, i wanted to say thank you to everyone who participates in this great resource!  under this name, i have not ever posted, because my boyfriend is now living completely stealh, is known on here, and prefers to remain completely anonymous.  i have posted before, and tried to help others as best i can, so please don't think i'm a lurker or anything!  

moving on.  i would really appreciate it if anyone could give me any helpful tips/sample letters that i could use for coming out to my family about our relationship.  my family is very conservative, but at the same time very accepting and loving.  it is HUGE, and the only people that know everything are my mother, my brother and sister, and my cousin/best friend (thats four out of 47 people that i need to tell).  all of the people that know are totally cool with everything, but i also chose them first because i am the closest to them.  out of the remaining people that i need to tell, there are a lot of older and/or closeminded people.  i'm not really that worried about the actual results, but more concerned with how to go about telling them that will inform them as well as let them know how important this relationship is to me.  we have been together for almost two years, and i'm sure that this is it.  other that the actual marriage situation, we are about as serious a couple can get.  it is really important to me to have my family involved in/know about our relationship before it goes any further.  i want my boyfriend to spend with my family, and not have to sneek around, and i want him to get to know them.  my family is the most important thing in my life, and they are everything to me, other than him.  

as other means of background, he, after being on T for about five months, recently came out to his entire family, and they have been nothing but supportive and loving(so far, *keeping my fingers crossed*), so we have that behind us.  our sets of parents have not met yet, for tons of reasons, because his weren't so behind the transition until recently, my mother is SUPER supportive and all for it since day one, and my dad has no idea about anything.

i'm gonna stop soon i promise, but there's only one other problem.  before he was passing, my boyfriend spent a little time(one weekend) with my family as his former self.  that means that we can't just got into this situation stealth, the majority of my family met him as a girl at the beginning of our relationship.  

thanks for any help you can give me, you have no idea how much it would mean to me to get some comments or suggestions!!!