How long have you gone without dressing?

[ShirleyN]

Hi ladies,

just wondering how long have any of you gone without dressing?

I haven't dressed for quite a while now but i'd be absolutely lying if I said that I don't still think about dressing.
Is it normal to go for long periods without dressing?
:straightface:

[Chelsea B]

36 years:)

[JeanTG]

Around 10 years.

[Sandin Meknickers]

2002 - 2017. I think it was harmful. Achieved so much that should have made me deliriously happy. Sadly not. Earnt my name.

[Elizabeth G]

I think the longest for me was about 7 years. I wasn't trying to not dress it just kind of went away for a while. I think it's perfectly normal.

[Francene Lola Dupree]

I think I went without wearing clothes for a year or so after Uni when I moved back in with parents.
But 8 years without dressing fully (wigs and makeup). Now I'm back on track I don't expect it to ever be that long again xXx

[Stacy Darling]

This time, less than 2months so far. I wanted to fully dress for an up to date picture, hard to do in 2hrs by yourself! Thus the avatar and profile pictures!
Now I'm thinking that I can't realistically answer this question, as I wear nail polish & make-up every day. Just not my favourite skirt!

I'm not normal so would not think that a time period would be normal. Bit like a skirt, just would like it to be a little shorter!

Stacy!

[ronda]

in the passed 5 years maybe a few hours

[ellbee]

I want to say around 3.5 years.

Simply absolutely no desire to during that time.


This was after a few-year period where I was femming it up pretty hard.


I was perfectly fine with its absence. :)

[sara66]

I lasted about 11 years after I got married. The longest time other wise was about 3-4 months.
Sara

[Lacey86]

I went the better part of 2 years when I was a missionary for the LDS church. I was 19-21 and only had about 30 seconds wearing a skirt in the whole 2 years.

[ClosetED]

2 years after marriage.
Hugs, Ellen

[Kelly DeWinter]

Daily from the time between waking up and the shower....... Oh wait you meant something different. :heehee:

[alwayshave]

I have gone as long as two years not fully dressing, but under dressed everyday to some extent.

[Rachael Leigh]

I would say probably 5 years was my longest time

[Salina]

I have just come out of my longest time of not dressing, 6+ years. There were a variety of reasons why, but now that it's behind me, I never intend to stop again.

[Lana Mae]

Wore panties then purged them about 4 times in my 34+ year marriage! Totally without 1984 to 2015-31 years! Now totally dressed, was only days to months since 2015! Hugs Lana Mae

[Alice B]

2 months while over seas

[DIANEF]

Since my early 20s the longest gap was six months when my son moved back home. I didn't like it..

[Confucius]

I started dressing at a very early age. I tried stopping many, many times. When my child was 3 years old my wife told me she didn't want me dressing around our children. So I stopped. All I would wear was some men's nylon pajamas to bed, because they reminded me of crossdressing. Then when my child was about 18 and leaving home to go to college, my crossdressing returned. So I went about 15 years just on will power.

There are some websites where people attempt to permanently end their crossdressing. Here is one: https://healingcd.wordpress.com/

[Stephanie47]

My wife underwent back surgery last spring (April). I was braced for losing my femme time until September as she is a teacher. Alas, right after the back surgery was over, she got a diagnosis of breast cancer. She took of this school year. So, since April 2016. That does not include my two years in the military. I had other activities to take up any free time. :)

[Teresa]

Shirley,
I don't have the opportunity to dress everyday even if that's what I would prefer to do, my needs are 24/7 it never ebbs and flows so I don't know what it's like to not dress over an extended period .
If I can't dress I shop so I can talk to SAs about clothes.

My wife once asked, " Is all I think about ?" I replied , " It's all I try not to think about !" It may sound like the Pink Fog but I know it's GD linked to AGP , the simple answer to that is I can't resolve it until I've lived it .

One point I would say to anyone is don't try and stop to prove something, I can't see the point when it's something most of us are born with so why try denying it by thinking you can force yourself to stop .

[Alice_2014_B]

I've gone at least 10 months without fully dressing up.
:)

[XemmaX]

a year here and there maybe a few months in the year like i find summer too hot for my female side!

[Helen Waite]

I was going to say "too long", which, while accurate without being specific, doesn't quite address the intent of the question. :doh:

[kimdl93]

Longest stretch ...5 years between my first and second marriages.

[Michelle (Oz)]

Christmas time was bad ... 4 whole days. There was a time some years ago that I stopped for 3.5 years after my ex told me she was leaving me for a real man.

[Tama]

Let me see here... since 1975, i've likely lost ( forced or stuck in drabman position) 12 years of unhappy polyester existence...that would mean out of 42 years I only held on to 30 tolerable ones. All of the "lost" years were spread out, not one continuous 12 year run...
Michelle, I once also heard the "real man" garbage... That one turned out a complete disaster for my oh so lucky ex! ha! Karma the bitch rules apply

[BLUE ORCHID]

Hi Shirley:hugs:, Kind of like Kelly, For me 18 hours...:daydreaming:...

[Karen Wilder]

For me the longest stretch was about 12 years. Was busy with life, kids, work, did not really feel the urge or need to dress. I has come back with a vengeance that last two years. As I purged during the 12 year drought I need to obtain a complete new wardrobe.:)

Karen

[Lea]

About one year. That was when I was in the service and could only dress on leave.

[sweetdreams]

In my younger years (16 years old or younger) I seemed to have a 4 year cycle. Dress up, get caught, forced purge, 4 years later I'd do it again.

Mid-life maybe dress every couple of months.

Now it's panties 24/7 so I'm not dressed for as long as it takes to have a shower.

[Ceera]

Well, I only started under-dressing in mid 2012, and fully dressing in mid 2014. I'm single and can dress fully whenever I want to, but aiming for maybe a 50/50 balance between time spent as my male and female sides. Budget restrictions and other reasons limit me to more like 30% female, right now, though most of my social time is spent as a woman.

Since I first started under-dressing in 2012, I've been under-dressing almost every single day, wearing panties under my male clothes. After mid 2014 I threw out almost all of my male underwear. So if you count under-dressing, then only 24 to 36 hours or so at the longest, without getting the panties back on. And for the past year or more, even in male mode, my jeans and often my belt and shoes and coat have also been female clothing, though I choose low-key stuff that can pass at a casual glance for either way.

As far as full-on dressing, with wig and breast forms and definitely all female clothes and shoes, I try to do that every week, and often several times per week. I think the longest I have gone between full-on 'girly days' has been maybe three weeks, since mid 2014.

[Fiona123]

It's very rare that I don't at least wear panties, but it's been a while, at least 2 months, since I dressed fully. Today the spouse works until 5 and I got off at noon. At last... A couple of hours wearing a bra, panties and a dress. Yay!

[DanielleDubois]

My longest stretch was probably almost a year and when the kids were growing up dress up sessions were only a couple of times a year. The arrangement with my wife now is that once a month seems to prevent me from getting grumpy.

[Sarah Louise]

About 25 years. I lost interest in my early 20s only for the desire to come back 2.5 years ago. I thought I was cured but it was just dormant.

[SometimesKairi]

Since I've started doing it properly, well it's going to be ten days.
I miss it really badly.

[Peggy Gardiner]

About 11 years post puberty, and then almost another decade later on - lack of privacy and timidity about shopping being the big obstacles.

[CD Rachel]

Well as I mentioned in my introduction post I stopped cross dressing for about 22 years. This was to save my marriage. Since I started again there has been up to 3 months between opportunities.

[Diane Taylor]

I dress to some extent EVERY day. I never think about NOT being dressed and hope I never have to go full male ever again.

[Jaymees22]

I first dressed when I was 7, then at 17 and then waited until I was 67, so 50 years. I've been dressing pretty steady since for the past 5 years. I guess my life just got in the way and I find I'm much happier now.

[redtea]

I had one of those "This isn't me, I'm not a sissy, I need to be a man, Ok from this day forth I won't CD anymore" moments in 2012 that lasted 63 days. I never purged so i guess deep down I knew I wasn't gonna be free. From that point on I just accepted that there are things that are too enjoyable to pass up and vowed to myself not to try and suppress the urges.

[Becky Blue]

Since Becky 'emerged' 12 years ago, she left me for 3 years, it was then almost a year after she came back before I managed to dress. So that would make it 4 years.

[lucy_miller]

6 months while travelling post University in the early 90s. School holidays since having kids, though I always sleep in a silk camisole and French nickers.

[Tina Post]

About 4 years, way too long.

[Swish]

Been dressing since my early teens. Have un-erasable memories of obsessively caressing hosed legs since toddling. Longest I've gone without dressing was 4 days … Hospital stay. Gown doesn't count because there were no hose to give it that flare.

[sometimes_miss]

'Without dressing' isn't the key. It's how long you actually go without noticing the desire to do it. For a lot of us, I suspect the desire doesn't actually go away; we just repress it subconsciously, to the point we don't really notice it's there. Our minds take care of that for us, sort of the same way we breath without thinking about that, either. What happens to us, is that something gives way; like a dam holding the flood waters back, to the point where the water spills over the top. Too much stress of some kind makes our minds get busy taking care of other things, and the desire to crossdress is no longer held in the background, and appears to suddenly 'return with a vengeance' so to speak. Then we do it, the guilt makes us feel bad about it, further escalating the stress on us which keeps the desire to crossdress in our minds some more.

That said, the longest I went was a little over ten years. It was when I was dating through when I got married, in stable relationships, no trouble at work. It was when 'life was good'; no money troubles, no work troubles, just little common problems. When I lost my job it when the problems started, and within two years, I was crossdressing again. I've since taken time off from crossdressing a few times (for several months), but the desire never went away, I just didn't indulge in dressing up.