Leslie L.
Reading your post several times, I don't get the wife's "total rejection" of who you are. You year-round body shave, go out, have friends and a wardrobe. She just doesn't want to participate and doesn't want you to out yourself. I don't see that as total rejection, unless by that you mean anything short of total acceptance. My first wife, having never seen me dressed, nor pictures of me dressed, nor found my clothes, nor anthing other than having awareness that I crossdressed, deemed that as a deal-breaker and divorced me, being unable to be married to a crossdresser. I've read many other cases like mine here on the forum. Many CD's here wouold like that DADT arrangement, as it sure beats total rejection and divorce. The woman I am now married to accepts but doesn't participate, so I do my thing without her. She also doesn't hunt and fish with me. So I do them without her and don't see it as total rejection of who I am. Leslie, if all you are is a CD, then I can see it as toal rejection. But if you are more than that, she is only rejecting the CD. Consider the glass half-full.