CD related thing you regret doing the most?

[heathr1]

For me, it was using mother's make-up without permission.

[Rita D]

In the very early days of CDing (ages 11-15) stealing slips from wash lines, and bedroom drawers of neighbors and friend's moms and older female relatives...

[mklinden2010]

When I first got to thinking about all this, I'd go to the library and read about it... College and University libraries tended to have better sources...

It was interesting to read about theories, but they were always doing statistics and cross-references, and, of course, wasting thousands of trees on "is a gay thing"? I suppose they had to do that to get grants funded... I mean, otherwise, who'd care?

What I wish I had done was just start conversations with people, anybody, and find out what they thought about this and seemingly related subjects.

When I finally did that, it really let the air out of the "worry balloon" and I stopped reading the books entirely.

Never needed them, as it turned out...

[JoAnne Wheeler]

Having to take off my femm clothes and return to my drab self !
JoAnne Wheeler

[chris80]

not having my beard lasered while it was still coloured brown. Mind you,it went grey early and I don't think laser hair removal was around then.

[avril findlay]

Having to take off my femm clothes and return to my drab self !
JoAnne Wheeler

Having to wear mens clothes is awful.
I've never regretted anyhing about being a CDr.

[Karren H]

I really have no regrets at all!!

[CD Susan]

My biggest regret is staying in the closet for 40 years before coming out. I feel like I wasted so many years by hiding in the closet.

[beenherelongtime]

i regret all my purges. looking back on things now, i am sorry for violating the privacy of those whose clothes i wore without their knowledge. i had 4 friends that allowed me to wear their clothes. of course, when i started with my moms and sisters, i was yound and did not view it as violating their space. only after being on forums such as this and growing older did i become aware of what i did.

[Tracii G]

Can't think of one.

[Carole Cross]

My biggest regret is not going for transition at 16 because I didn't have the confidence to go through with it. THat really annoys me noiw!:Angry3:

[Cheryl T]

PURGING.

Also not having persued electrolysis many years ago.

[crystalann]

not starting my transition back when I was a teenager

[Alice Torn]

I regret what i did once, while in a pink fog, and new at taking photos. I wanted some who knew me to know, and sent a letter, and photos to a lawyer friend i did work for, who is an older bachelor, like me. I didn't hear from him, so, sent an apolgy, but he never responded, nor had me do work, again.

[DanaR]

I really have no regrets.

[Barbaraheels]

A few years back my mother had a pile of her old dresses in her room and she had planned on throwing them out or giving them to goodwill etc. Some of these dresses she had for years and I fondly remember trying them on when I was young. By the time she had planned on getting rid of them, they fit me near perfectly. Most of these dresses were 80's and early 90's fashions, some given to her by other women too. I had absolutely loved these styles. I could have helped my self to a bunch of these dresses and she would not have even noticed. Unfortunately I did not before she got rid of them. Now I scour ebay looking for retro fashions like those old dresses my mother and her friends used to wear.

[Jenniferpl]

Other than taking off my bra, I have no regrets.

[Samantha43]

Regrets?

None

[Joanne_2003]

only that i didn't tell my wife sooner

[JOJO44]

Not starting to be serious at an age when I might have even looked lady like!

But I'm trying to (make up):heehee: for lost time now.

[marny]

in the camp of no regrets. Marny

[Joann Smith]

I regret hiddind the fact that i CD form my kids...

[Shawnacdin]

The only one I have is once I was done with college and moving in with my gf (now wife) I gave 75% of my cloths to goodwill, fearing she would not accept me. Boy was I wrong and wish I had those cloths back.

[docrobbysherry]

But, I'm SURE I will! Probably in '09!:doh:

[Tasha McIntyre]

I regret not researching the subject properly until recently. Also waiting a few years to fess up to the wife.

Ahh 20/20 hindsight!

[Deborah_UK]

Purging when I got married - I had some lovely things and dumped em all thinking marriage was going to "cure" me!

(I divorced 4 years later and I'm now on the road to transitioning)

[Samantha Kelsey]

My biggest regret is not coming out in my 20s. Life could have been so different.

[ukcd87]

My regret is purging some clothes when i was about 13 from then i didn't start again till i was about 15. 2 years of fun wasted :sad:

[Jonianne]

What I regret doing the most was allowing the pink fog to get the best of me at the begining of my first marriage. That turned my first wife off completly and certainly contributed to the end of the marriage. I thought she had accepted it more than she really did, because we had not set up groung rules and boundries or spent enough time being honest and talking about it.

The good thing is I learned from it and went into my second marriage far more prepared by sharing with my wife long before we were married and talking and listening to her feelings and working out ground rules and boundries with her from the onset.

[Jocelyn Quivers]

Speding close to a thousand dollars on Queen size hoseiry throughout the yers, only to lose weight and drop down to size B.

[tommi]

Not learning to accept and investigate my fem side when I was younger and single.

[Shelly67]

1. keeping myself hidden away from my wife - thank goodness she understood me when I eventually came out to her .
2. Virtually the same deceptiveness - except to my imediate family , who I fear would never understand - hence I cannot tell them about Michelle .

[unclejoann]

Wish I had done the therapy thing with my first wife, I believe now she would have accepted it but was just in shock and afraid. She was really a better person than I gave her credit for, it would have made life so different to have stayed with her. Oh well. I have caused others too much pain.

[rachelgirlnw]

My only regret is not finding a forum and information like this earlier. I'm sure others also spent years of isolation, guilt, and shame trying to "fix" what was "wrong" with themselves. This site has been so enlightening and such an inspiration! :<3:

[Veronica Lacey]

Purging in my late teens, early 20's.

[cdmindymi]

Taking so long to accept who I am. time wasted looking for the reason and cures. Joni here was a big help to me, more than she knows. So not to have another regret. Thank you Joni, I wish you the very best.:hugs:

[Deidra Cowen]

Not starting earlier! Oh my I wasted a lot of years by just starting to CD in my forties. Oh lord it would be fun to see what I could have looked like when I was in my twenties.

[Toni_Lynn]

I regret not standing up to my mum on the many occasions when she found my stuff as a teen, and saying to her -- "go ahead -- tell my dad".

I regret not wearing panties and bras all the time to school when I was in high school

Huggles

Toni-Lynn

[StaceyJane]

I regret not going full time when I had the opportunity 15 yrs ago. I should have at least tried.