I just came out last year. After years of being Frozen I finally feel like I'm thawing out and coming down off of the snowy mountain.
The hardest part for me has been the reality adjustment and trying to fight the regret that I didn't do this years ago when I was younger. I do feel the loss of years rather keenly.
I had the elation you are having W_L and now its settled into a more contented pattern of feelings. I have friends now where I didn't before. I belong to a community where I didn't before. I have people there for me where I didn't have them before. I now live in a Gayborhood and find myself doing all the things at 45 that I wanted to do at 25, but couldn't.
Now, I really am longing for a boyfriend. I don't know if I will find one but I hope I do. I just hope I'm not too old for the guys around here now. San Diego does have a surplus of some of the cutest young gay guys anywhere because of the military. This makes competition a bit heavy for a middle aged guy.
A lot of my stories are old fantasies that I've kept inside for decades and GA has given me a way to express them. They are dreams and sometimes I find those dreams become more real than I ever imagined. Maybe I will find the love I dream for my characters.