Struggle
Comfort!
Sensational and shameful...
Disconnect............One of the prime reasons I love to dress is to not only transition into another gender but also to transition into another "Life?". I am no longer "****", "Breadwinner", "Problem-Solver", "Bill-Payer", "Family-Organizer", "Husband", "Dad". I am free to just be Courtney and only Courtney. I disconnect from my "REAL" life for those few moments, minutes, hours, days. That is what I love about CD.
Courtney,
I love your reply. You did an eloquent job of describing why I like to dress.
Wow Courtney, that is EXACTLY how I explained it to my SO when I came out!
You hit the nail on the head! 😉
Liberating. I spent much of my life trying to hide Lauren from the world, when I dress up that worry is completely gone because I am literally wearing my biggest secret out in the open.
-and-
Complete. Each chance I get to dress always leaves me feeling like a more complete person, because I am embracing both sides of my true self.
<3 Lauren
"Relaxing"
Takes away the stresses of everyday life...
Unattainable!
Although I love, enjoy, and am totally greatful for the ability to dress, I never feel completely, well, complete. When I am in drab I fit the clothing I am wearing and I look and physically feel (fill out) the way I am presenting. When I am en femme it can be like being so close but just not quite. It's like almost winning powerball. I'm not TS but being bigender I definately experience a degree of gender dysphoria. I wish that when dressed I could look in the mirror and see a beautiful, slim, curvy, sexy young woman looking back at me with real breasts providing real cleavage and actually feeling them in my bra. I wish that I could fit the dresses and heels that are just barely too small for my male body and don't have bigger sizes in those specific styles. I'm not against having my mans body but if only I could have a womans body like 50% of the time, oh that would be great. Being a fair mix of both genders but forever confined to ONE sex makes me really long for a turn as the other sex, its quite frustrating. Sorry for the downer but I just needed the opertunity to express these feelings. Usually when I dress I focus on the great feeling I just never feel complete. Thanks for listening!
Natural.
Freedom.
Like Courtney, this is a way for me to escape the every day male responsibilities.
FUN, just getting all dressed up in style and creating.
Frustrated.
Do what you do to me. Frustrated. (Oops, this is Not name that tune?).
But yeah, there's the ideal, the reach, never quite getting there. Never pretty enough, never skinny enough, voice not quite right, cleavage just shy, wife not quite on board. And just when you've convinced your self that certain goals are unattainable, you see someone else obtain it.
But just rewarding enough to not give it up. Little sweet moments of contentment and accomplishment. So you get back into the ring.
Smile.
Weird
Maybe not the expected response, but come on, cross dressing is weird. It makes no sense. It's fun, challenging, calming, entertaining, satisfying and a hundred other adjectives, but mostly, it's weird. And that doesn't change any of the good things about it.
I was going to say "Secret,"
But I think the word "Escape" is a much better fit.
......Me
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