I have told this story before, before moving in with my now wife, I wrote her a letter and revealed that I had been a lifetime crossdresser and that was not going to change or stop. I laid out when I started, its evolution and where I was then. I answered the are you gay/bi-sexual questions. Did I want to transition. She went away for a couple of days, did research on crossdressing and came back and said OK I can do this. She has a background in psychology, so I think she was more willing to believe the statistics that most crossdresser aren't gay, etc. In that way I have been lucky. So I owned it early and haven't backed off.