Hi all,
I haven't posted in a bit, so for refreshers, I'm a platonic but increasingly emotionally intimate friend with a beautiful human being who also happens to be a CD'er. I'm also an Ft* transperson, in case that matters.
My friend moved a few months ago and is living with a friend of his who does not know, so he has all his girl clothes in boxes for when he eventually gets his own place. This is probably the longest stretch he's gone in a few years of not being able to get fully en femme, and I'm wondering if it's possible that it's an underlying cause for what I see as an increasing tendency towards moodiness. Or maybe he's just gotten more comfortable letting me see his cranky side! But I really think that with all the stress he's under financially, relationally, and professionally (stressors that were present at his old location as well), that he could use the release of getting to be in "girl mode." He still underdresses, and does little things like put on lip gloss on his drive home, but maybe that's not enough...?
Any thoughts from anyone who's had to go through a forced layoff of full-on dressing? Did you find it made you more inclined to be, well, a bit bitchy, or to have a lower tolerance for things than you normally would? If so, how did you deal? How would you recommend I deal with the "flare-ups" when he just seems to get childish, for lack of a better word?