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Why couldn’t he have just been honest?

by Emma on January 4, 2012

In this article Emma addresses the significant others of crossdressers.  If you’re stumbling across this article because you are feeling lost, lonely, confused, frightened, or frantic due to the discovery of your husband or significant other’s hidden crossdressing needs I would love for you to pause and take this article in. I will try to [...]

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Does transgender therapy work?

by mattie on March 15, 2010

In my last post I talked about how several years ago I came to the point where I knew I needed help. I was either headed down the road to depression and likely suicide, or I needed to find a way to ‘cure’ myself or get treatment for my transgender issues (I didn’t know it [...]

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Meeting our Peers in Philly

June 19, 2009

This last weekend, for the first time ever, we saw, met and mingled with a large amount of transgender people. It was at the Philadelphia TransHealth Conference, and we went only on Saturday because we had just heard about the event earlier in the week and were unable to make plans to attend the entire [...]

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Does he want to be a woman?

August 17, 2008

When a husband or boyfriend comes out to you as transgender, or crossdresser it’s easy to make an assumption that this means they’ll want a sex change. But that’s not necessarily the case.

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Ten ways to handle “the conversation”

July 12, 2008

For some people, finding out that their spouse or lover is a transgendered person or a crossdresser can be a shock. People who have been married for years, can feel betrayed and disappointed. For others, it can be a small deal or even a positive outcome to what might have been an emotionally charged first conversation.

You may have already been told that your loved one is a crossdresser, but if not – if you suspect it – here are ways that you can initially react or cope with the news.

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The Crossdresser’s Wife

June 14, 2008

My loving and supportive wife talks about the day I told her I was transgendered. “A few years ago I had been wondering what was wrong with my boyfriend. Over the period of a few months when I would prod him he refused to tell me why he was so depressed. Finally, he told me he had decided to see a therapist to figure out what was wrong. A few days later, with trepidation written all over his face, he told me he needed to talk to me…”

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