How many times have you stopped

[Jessicainme]

I was just wondering how many times that you ladies have stopped dressing. I have my ups and downs. In the last week or so I don't care if I wear one item of female clothing, but there are other times that I have to dress ala-fem. Is this only me? I have learned not to get rid of anything. I just store it away.

Jessica

[suzypier]

I never CD when my GF is around. I wait when she go away for vacation. Then I will dress all day en femme and sometime go for a little drive at night. But still very scare to get caught, so I stay more in the closet.

[nikki47]

A few times in the past,but i don't want to stop at all now.I'm totally comfortable with myself now,where as in the past i used to question why i do it,thinking whats wrong with me.Now i'm buying all the time,i've just bought a designer dress today and can't wait for it to arrive.

Nikki

[Karren H]

Stopped once for 10 years..... Just completely forgot about it... found out later why... brain tumor... once I started treatment.. crossdressing came back with a vengence... good news is the tumor is still shrinking.. :)

and stopped for a few months summer before last.... got burnt out I think..

[TommiTN]

I have gone through periods, sometimes several years, where I haven't had the urge although the thought was always in the back of my mind. I still experience them but they are much shorter and farther between timewise. I sometimes :daydreaming: about going full time but that is impossible for me, at least for the immediate future.

[Tomara]

I have lost track of how many times in the past I have stopped and purged , I have finally stopped purging but will never stop cross dressing !
Tomara

[Shari]

This has happened to me frequently and you're not alone. It's usually when my stress levels are high that I don't care to dress.
Just this week was a good example. Problems on Sunday and Monday, no urge, or really not even much of a sex drive.
My problems were resolved monday night and tonight I'll be clicking my heels around the house, relaxing and enjoying the silks and nylons.
It is best to never purge your clothes. Always keep that in mind, because "this thing we do" never goes away.

[jasmine57]

I don't know how many times I've stopped but I do know that it's one less than the number of times I've started.

[MsJanessa]

I've only stopped and purged once--it's way too expensive to throw all that leather and satin away

[Eileen]

I like to think of it as having cross dressed for the last time. I am not able to cross dress any more as I no longer have any male clothes. What a wonderful feeling.

Eileen

[Salene]

I've never stop with the intention of never doing it again, I treat this as a hobby and like all hobby's sometimes your time and money need to go to more pressing matters. And the only "purging" I do is selling my old outfits on ebay so I have money to buy new ones. :D

[suchacutie]

I've not yet ever stopped except for the need for discression when my offspring are in the house. This has only been 3.5 years, but still going strong!!!

tina

[Sarah...]

Never. I stopped being male about 6 months or so ago. Now, to get the rest of the human race to catch up with me! :D

Sarah...

[StaceyJane]

I only purged once. Threw away a really nice leather skirt, a satin nightgown and a couple of issues of "Transgender Tapestry" magazine.

[Carly D.]

In what I call my "modern" era of dressing (the buying of my own clothes roughly the last nearly twenty years) I have stopped for a month at a time.. this includes not shaving my legs.. when the urge did return I wore pantyhose with hair back on my legs and that wasn't good so in the past three years I keep my legs shaved no matter how I feel about dressing up..

[Deanna2]

How many times have you stopped?

Errrr - Never!

[Emma Chase]

I have also purged on more than one occasion.
Its an expensive action that you have to learn from.. if you feel the need ' get rid of it all' do as some of the others girls have mentioned... put it in storage!

[cincioh]

I have gone through periods, sometimes several years, where I haven't had the urge although the thought was always in the back of my mind. I still experience them but they are much shorter and farther between timewise. I sometimes :daydreaming: about going full time but that is impossible for me, at least for the immediate future.

That's it! You're having your PERIOD ! :)

[ronnie1951]

Boy it sure is expensive, that is for sure. I have tossed out some great shoes that I cant find anymore. I think it is best to find a place to stash everything for awhile if you need to.

[sometimes_miss]

Back in my youth, I tried to quit ever time I took off the clothes, kept telling myself that I have to stop doing this. Never worked for long, though. Faced up to it after the divorce, that it's never going away. That was 10 years ago.

[Billijo49504]

Every night at bed time. Till morning....BJ

[CD Susan]

Many years ago I wanted to stop dressing up and thought that if I got rid of the clothes I could quit doing this. I made several attempts to quit and purged all of my fem clothes each time. After the third and final failed attempt at quitting I realised that this feeling to wear womens clothes would never go away. I have since learned to accept this part of myself and know better than to try quitting again. The purging was of course a huge mistake and it was very costly to replace the things I threw out. I do not have any ups or downs in my desire to dress. My desire is always constant and I dress every day.

[erickka]

For a lot of us here, the urge/need to dress comes in cycles. I think what you are going through is perfectly normal. I've been dressing for 40 years, and still go through those cycles.

[deja true]

Oh, stop!

Don't!

Stop!

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Don't Stop!

Mmmmm!

[JenniferR771]

Oh darn! I discarded the photos from my first outside professional makeup and photo session--back when I was younger. I thought the photo could only mean trouble--never realized how much I would like a picture of when was young. Worse yet, I had a human hair wig. My therapist (very unqualified) convinced me to throw away most of women's clothes, and the wig. he thought I had a "sexual addiction". I kept some of my stuff.

[trisha59]

Stopping is easy, I'v done it hundreds of times.:lol2:

[Cathytg]

I am 63 years old and I cannot even remember how many times I have "stopped" dressing. Sometimes I went so far as to purge
- birth of first child, moment of guilt, etc. - but that was a long time ago and I am smarter now. If I back off now I simply leave the clothes. "Save your Confederate money, boys, the South shall rise again."

[Sarah Martin]

Only stopped once when I was about 16/17 and had just left home (fresh start, and all that). Purged everything. It lasted about a month, then I woke up to reality and became the crossdressing monster that I am today.

[Chrissy be good]

When I was younger I only dressed when I had the opportunity to raid a closet. In my late teens I had the opportunity to dress all the time. After a few months I totally lost all desire. I moved back home and shave my head along the way. Totally purged everything. Sure enough back living on my own I started to gather a few things, but my gf didn't know. When we got married I had to purge again when we moved into our house. It's been a few years now since I've been able to fully dress. I miss it, but I know my time will come again

[tanyacd]

Does anyone ever stop?

There have been times when I would throw out all my things, and say I am never going to do this again. feeling ashamed i guess. I would suppress the urges for awhile, but they always come back.

Over the past 6 months Im learning to embrace and appreciate it more then ever before in my life. At this point right now, I dont see myself "quitting" anytime soon, Ive spent too much on things this time to just throw them away now :)

[Jennifer Giovannetta]

I stopped about 12 years ago. Was not dressing completely, just wearing shoes and clothing. Had not started with wigs and makeup yet. The guilt I was feeling was so overwelming that I purged all of my clothes. And I will NEVER do that again. One of the items I threw away was a pair of Sam & Libby Black patent dressy sandals. I miss those shoes so much. To this day I am looking for them. Sam & Libby does not make these shoes any longer, and my best hope is Ebay. To this day I cannot find them.
Sometimes the urge dissipates, but eventually comes back. To me this is normal and I just wait for the urge to come back. Lately it comes back faster than I expect.

[charlene_d]

Dressing went on the back burner while the kids grew up. Purged once pre-kids but kept a small stash in storage.

Pink fog descended a couple of months ago and small stash has grown with increase in privacy.

Not very interesting. But that's life.

Charlene D.

[Angie G]

I've put it on hold for a time but never stopped. I just love it that much. and now that my wife knows there is no need to stop.:hugs:
Angie