Quote Originally Posted by ReineD View Post
Back to Jenn, even if you don't want your wife to be involved, it is still important for her to understand where all this is coming from and where it will potentially lead (albeit not transition), else you risk continually stretching the boundaries until your marriage is severely strained. It will start with shaving parts of your body if you don't do this already, then trimming your eyebrows, perhaps getting rid of the dark facial hair (5 o'clock shadow is difficult to deal with), piercing your ears (clip-ons are uncomfortable), buying forms, pads, waist-cinchers, expanding your wardrobe exponentially ... as you grow to the point of wanting to present a realistic appearance when you go out to mingle in public.

All of this tends to begin around middle age, or earlier for some people.
Hi Reine, while I would like to shave my legs because it simply looks nicer (either bare or in stockings, also I feel my primary fixation is on the legs), I don't do that because on more than one occasion, completely unrelated to a discussion about dressing, my wife has said she loves my hairy legs.

As for all the other things you mentioned, it's really difficult for me to imagine wanting to do all or any of those things. That said, it seems from conversations and links I've read here, it's also impossible to say precisely what will be in the future. I had also read a research paper that a lot of these escalations tend to happen closer to middle age, due to (at least this paper's hypothesis) waning male hormones, which would coincide with your comment.