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So... I really need help, I'm sorry to bug everyone and not go to a therapist etc.
Not good talks today, but I said lets talk more in coming days. Things have come to the point she and also I'm thinking we need a break or something or have to end it. She said she can't accept the way I am, like how I want to go out. Also despite this, there are the other problems we have BUT she claims it's not that big deal and could have been dealt with eventually. I somewhat agree on that point.
Near the end of the 2-3 hour conversation basically got to the point again on trying to salvage things but seeing *what* I am or how extensively this goes. This is where I really need help. Honestly I don't know if I've been denying myself for the past decades because just recently I've been going out and before that only about 1-2 years max I was experimenting with fully looking like a girl.. well because I had the money and chance.
She suggests that maybe because I'm lonely since she's away and I'm doing it. could that be true? But I do enjoy doing this but maybe I didn't really *need* it? I'm there on the phone talking to her also looking at a woman's magazine trying to figure out what is so alluring about a woman or wanting to become or look like one. I need help on this.
Like I *KNOW* there is something in me that's CD/TS/TG whatever, but alot of it has been shaped by society/culture/media etc. So maybe I don't really need all of what I'm doing and if that is the case maybe my relationship can still survive. It's really that or it's going to end, and after over a decade, I think most people would like it to keep going.
Anyways please help, don't give me those "see a therapist" or "you decide" because I find I'm really influenced by others lol. I want a unbiased view of what's going on...
Thanks all =)
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*Updated Post*
I won't get into how I told her, basically just told her yesterday and the end result that came out of it was that she wasn't rejecting it or not unaccepted. It was OK as in terms of trying to understand it, she kept asking me what did I want to do.
The main things really that came up are these points, I'll summarize them since I need to anyways for my own records, I'm so messed up I don't even know what's what anymore.
-She doesn't feel good about how I've been hiding this so long and never told her, despite the reasons: denying myself of what I am, thinking it'll go away. Scared to see reaction.
-I hid stuff before, did stuff without her knowing that isn't related to this, so it bothers her alot about the hiding stuff.
-The fact I told her, "I don't know", makes her unsure of the future because obviously like many said here and what the FAQ sticky posts said, is that most women who want to get marry have a life etc, want their future to be somewhat defined and sure: Like having a husband that still wants to be a husband, children, etc. Since I said "I don't know" who or what I am 100%, there's uncertainty that I might change or realize 5 years or 10 years down the road that I am TS or want to be woman full time, SRS, transition, the works.
-Our other issues and problems we have anyways before this came up, how I am as a BF/partner and roles I do. I am not that great and there's lot of stuff she doesn't like or not happy about, but same for me, despite these we still think it's not too bad to end it. Mainly alot because she thinks the stuff she dislikes about me is easy to change. I think I act the way I do is partly do to my hidden CDing which since now I told her, can help me be a better person. Though since it is NOT all related, I still have some issues myself on how my personality is.
-"Who am I", like in my other post. I'm not sure if I'm again lying to myself or in denial but I *THINK* I know more or less what I am in respect to being in the spectrum of a CD and TS. What I think is that, I don't think I will stray much further from what I am right now, like I won't need to go SRS or become 24/7 female and that just sometimes being female is ok. The "Who am I" is, basically fine tuning of what this is, how much more to add to it, or less (activities, who to come out to, what to do). THIS IS WHAT I THINK though, I'm asking all of you, do you think I'm lying to myself again about this? (Please no "see a therapist" comments)
-I have myself mixed feelings of what I want to do, like there's a part of me saying, just let her decide, maybe it's better off we're not together because of the other underlying problems, regardless of how "easy" it is to fix. Another part of me is saying to just stay together because there's still stuff I enjoy being together and we've been together 12 years. The other part is also, maybe I need to be alone to be able to figure out who Kate is and being able to do that easier is alone. So it's very pulling in all directions.
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I might keep updating this post so please keep checking on this one if you want to see updates.
I don't know honestly, I'm really messed up now, I don't know what exactly I want for Kate and don't know what I want for my male self or relationship.
Don't know what to write right now.
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