This post is a response to the "Rant" thread and the thread topic in the Loved Ones section called "The Price of not telling your Wife".
Disclaimer: My wife knew I liked to cross dress on occasion before we married. She thought it was funny and constrained to Halloween. Three years later in the midst of a pink fog... she let me know that she thought my behavior was disgusting. I'm now in a DADT relationship.
As you can tell from my 110-120 posts in the five years I've been a member... I'm not a big on responding to topics or posting new ones. That's unusual because I write a blog and have a FB page for it... in other words I like to write. What finally compelled me to post here today, is the ongoing harassment I have observed of members that are closeted and the ongoing GG worship.
I'm tired of those who feel it necessary to be nasty to those who are closeted. You know what? It's none of our business why someone chooses to be closeted. None of us knows each other's situation.... therefore calling someone a cowardly liar or even insinuating they are for not telling their spouse is way off base. Police your own house and make sure everything is "perfect", before you go "labeling" others.
I'm sick of the "Gurls" that put all of the Forum GGs on pedestals. Stop kissing their butts and trying to make yourself look better "cause you get it" or by golly, GGs are never wrong. For the love, please just stop. It's ridiculous. GGs are no more, or no less, perfect than we are. We all make mistakes and have things we keep to ourselves.
This is supposed to be a safe haven for ALL cross dressers, not just the group that is out and about. It's a place also where Loved Ones, Significant Others and even ourselves can be educated. A place where we can talk about what it is that we do and hopefully... try to understand ourselves & each other along the way.
Most importantly, it's a place where we ALL should be speaking respectfully to one another. Period. End of story.
Oh, as far actual Price of Telling your wife?
Reality...
1) Distrust and living in a bubble because of the elephant in the room.
2) Divorce? Not being able to see your kids everyday?
3) She lives with it and secretly (or not so secretly) hates it.
4) any number of possibilities that are less than desirable.
Rarity
1) She loves it! New Shopping buddies!
Look after being here for five years... I absolutely think we should be honest with a new SO. We all now know that it's the right thing to do. I think most of us would.
But for those who didn't a long time ago? It may be not be an option. Don't make those members feel less, because they can't bring themselves to do so... especially the older forum members. Society has come along way with acceptance, but back when some of the senior members were in their 20s, 30s and 40s... there was no Internet and Society wasn't what it is now.
Danielle Lee