Did you tell your Mother?

[ShelbyDawn]

I never told my mother but one day I got out of the shower and went to get dressed. All of my underwear had been changed out for bikini briefs. I'm pretty sure she knew I was stealing my sisters' panties.

[Stefanie Taylor]

Wow, what did I start here?

There are a lot of touching replies that I've found quite emotional!

You're all a lovely bunch of ladies!

Lots of love xxx

[Christina89]

I attempted to a few times. I believe I honestly should?ve done it when she first discovered the stash of clothing I had of hers when I first started. But I did try officially again in 2010ish maybe and it started cause when we were at my grandparents house she made mention that she had hoped I was a girl. When we got home that night I tried to tell her and be honest with her about my cross dressing, but she wasn?t happy about it. I have wanted to bring it up again a few times lately, but I haven?t been able to do it.

[MsEva]

Never told my dear Mom. She had four boys. She longed for a girl. I was supposed to be a girl according to the old wive's tale of using a needle and thread over the hand. Yeah junk science! I guess she was sort of disappointed in that. Then my little brother came along and she was so hoping for a girl. Her sister had a girl about the same time. She once was trying to get me a halloween costume and said to just go as a girl. That sort of struck a nerve with me even at the age of 10 or so. I got furious with her suggesting that. Why o why didn't I just go along with that. Maybe that would have opened the conversation. Oh well. Life goes on.

[Claire Dee]

No and never would consider it. We have very different views on pretty much everything.

[JustineFallow]

Throughout my teens, I lied to myself that she didn't know about it. But I was not as careful as I thought I was about putting things back exactly where I found them, for one thing, and never realized that I was stretching out her bras! We never mutually acknowledged it until I was 40, and had a few brief discussions about it afterward--even made a few jokes about it here and there. In all other respects, we were very close, but I thought that it would have been a bridge too far to talk about it in my teens, or even to--GASP!--ask her to buy stuff for me. She was raised by pretty hardcore Catholics and all of her brothers were big manly men, so I don't think she really had a frame of reference for dealing with her son secretly wearing her pantyhose, heels, and dresses (and she had really nice stuff. But I always appreciated that she never embarrassed me about it, and that she knew I wasn't hurting anyone. I had shown her photos from professional makeovers, which she was guardedly impressed by, but it was an unrealized ambition to sit with her over a pot of tea while dressed up. It probably might have been a little too unnerving for her, mind!

[Freddi]

I never told my mum....maybe I should've done...she always wanted a girl....even had a girls name picked out ready for me & my brother but it wasn't to be. When I put make up on though if its a certain colour I can see why some say I'm like her.

[JoyceAnn]

Never did. Mom was open-minded and she might have understood. She had 2 boys and wished she had a daughter. She told me that Joyce Ann is what she would have named me had I been born a girl. I could have told her about me, but I don't know how that would have gone over. Not sure if she knew I tried on her clothes. Mothers have an intuition about that, but she never said anything to me. She was the type to bring things out in the open, so I think she would have had a talk with me if she had known. It would have been nice if we could have discussed it. It's possible that the conversations would have diminished my shame and would have given me self-confidence to carry into adulthood. Today, I think perhaps she is watching from above and is thrilled to see how happy I am when I am out as Joyce.

[snoostrawberry]

My mom really wanted a girl when she had me as well. Seems to be a trend! Today, I imagine she must have known that I was trying her clothes and things. I was a 10 year old kid, so I'm sure the things in her dresser were not they way she remembered leaving them. It makes me cringe a little. I never have mentioned anything to her, just because I wouldn't know what it would really accomplish.

[LIKETODRESS2]

I let my panties sowing on purpose in a way so my mo would seee them i. She in a way of coming out she freekd out

[Stacy Darling]

I had no choice, Mother new how Gurly I was and my older sister new way too much. So I just came out!

[Traci H]

No I never told my mom and if think it was best that way. She was pretty accepting and I think she would have no issue with it, but there just wasn?t any reason to burden her. After my father died, she had more than enough things that changed in her life.

[DAVIDA]

Yes, I actually did.
My daughter and I had been shopping, and I bought a skirt that was longer than we thought it needed to be.
So, I went to my parent's house and told her about what I had been doing since a very early age.
She said she had no idea, even when I brought up a few times I left some of the little sample lipstick tubes she would get from the Avon rep out.
After talking a bit, I asked her to hem the skirt about two inches shorter.
The only thing she said about it was, don't let this become a habit.
Pretty much everyone in my family knows I am a crossdresser.
None of them has a problem with it at all, but I will not be dressed in front of them.

[tiffyjo]

I never told my mom, but I suspect she may have known, and possibly gave me a bit of a push?
** I'll explain **
I've done a lot of looking at old pics and came across quite a few that it appears possibly she was dressing me in girls clothing. Many appear as a little skirt and many with me wearing bonnets and frilly shirts and skirt type bottoms. Some that I would guess my age about 3. Makes me wonder if she planned a bit for a girl and had some girlish outfits. I even asked my brother looking at the pics and he agreed that possibly she had some outfits before I was born that if they had a girl, there were clothes available. Fast forward to when I was about 8-10 and she had sewn together a hanging "rag bag" is what I would call it. She put old wash clothes, towels, socks, etc. in it and they were just tossed in there. She hung it on the clothes rod in my closet upstairs as it was a very large closet/storage room. One day she asked me to go up and grab a couple of old wash clothes so she could do some dusting and when I reached in I felt something that felt very soft and pulled it out. it was a pair of her old panties and they were neatly folded and in a stack with about 6-7 other panties. I grabbed the wash clothes and back downstairs I went, but those panties had left a huge impression and excitement for me. That night when I went to bed I grabbed a pair and put them on and that was the start of the wearing of female underclothes because I loved the feeling and excitement. I always would fold them back up and put them in the bag, just as I found them. Days off from school and anytime I was alone, I would wear a pair. Mom would have me help put away clean laundry and many times I had to take stuff into her room and I would see pantyhose, girdles, bras laying on chairs or her dresser and of course I would wear them if home alone. Mom was a very neat and tidy person, so seeing those items laying out on the chair or dresser was a bit odd, but looking back, was she doing it on purpose?

Mom passed away in 2005 at 60 years old and with my life turning out how it has, I would like to ask her if she had staged that for me to find and experiment. She was a very open person with me and I would love to tell her how her putting those old panties in that rag bag has led to a life of being drawn to women's underwear and even some experimenting with blouses, jeans, shorts, etc.

[Katie Lynn cd]

I never told my mother but she eventually found my stuff. She never said a word until one evening there was a well known celebrity that was cross-dressing on a game show. Her response to that was extremely negative. I had my answer to her non-acceptance.

[cd300]

My mom knows and loves me either way. She has been the many pictures I have but hasn't yet seen her in person. Said she would like to one day

[JuliannaS]

I did not tell my mother, but after she passed, i showed up to her grave dressed and told her. I think her spirit is happy to finally have a daughter.

[JulieC]

That's an interesting idea, JuliannaS! My mother's grave is a few states away, and I haven't been back that way in a long time. But next time?

[Erin Lafleur]

I've often thought about telling Mom. She's 90 now and won't be with us much longer and we are very close.
She somehow knew that I had tried on her panties and slips and rather than embarrass me publicly, she took me aside and gently explained that little boys don't wear girls clothes.
Sometimes they do Ma, sometimes they do...
But I thank her everyday for doing what she thought was right but in a very loving way.

[Sallee]

I am sure my parents felt the same way They knew I was into crossdressing even sent me to a shrink but I refused to talk. I'd talk up a storm now. I eventually moved away got my own place and continued cding. Now I am married with kids, wife knows and puts up with it. My parents probably thought I grew out of my cding. Its still fun.