Gals, I'm freaking out. I've never felt so lost and confused about life. I've always just considered myself to be a crossdresser, but a very heterosexual male, in that I like women. I still mostly feel that way. But the urge to dress and more-so, be a woman, is charging at me full force right now. I don't think I could live full time as a woman, but the thought of it excites me. Honestly, I've repressed my feelings about this for most of my life knowing what it is or who I am (still not sure about that part obviously). This is mostly due to growing up in a very Christian home and feeling like I was sinning by doing it or thinking about it and my family, when they discovered it by invading my privacy on my computer, didn't accept it. They saw it as a phase, something I'd "grow out of." This hurt me very deeply. They made no effort to discover my feelings on it or find out why I felt this way. They brushed it aside and ignored it. This past year they have apologized for doing that for me and not being there for me. I have forgiven them and I love my family. But what is through discovery of myself I find I am wanting to be a woman more than a man or what not? I can't lose my family. And I know what everyone will say. Be yourself and screw them! I wish it were that simple for me. As I'm typing this, eyes filled with tears and stomach filled with knots, wanting to throw up, I need advice or encouraging words or something. I can't continue to live this way. I need to find out who I am. But I'm so scared. I don't know what of. That maybe I do want to be a woman. That maybe I'll lose my family. That maybe I'll never know what I am, but I am so so scared.
Side note: I'm also struggling with sexuality. I'm very attracted to women. No doubts about that. But I've had very bisexual fantasies, mostly dressed as a woman, so is that still straight or bisexual? I'm lost...