I've had three times in my life I've purged, once when I got out of school, and went in to the service, When I got married the first time, when I got divorced from the first wife. And the last time was when I got married the second time. a few years into the marriage, I realized all of my depression, and repressed anger, was caused by my need to dress, and it was only getting worse.
I went to the wife and told her all about me, and how it wasn't about her, I'd been doing it since I was a little kid, and it was why I was so unhappy. I fully expected her to go running from the room and from my life, but instead, she embraced it, maybe it was the answer to her question about why I was so unhappy, and it turned out it wasn't her, I'm not sure. But that very day we went shopping and started me on to what has become a thrift shop of clothes stored all over the house, unfortunately I never had much luck in thrift stores so it was all bought retail. As much as I've always wished I hadn't been born a CD, I've learned to live with it quite comfortably and have never thought about giving it up again, I can't live my life without Tina, and find any sort of happiness, so why would I ever purge again, and deny half of me.