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Saturday, April 22, 2017

day two


4/22/17            Finding the right words

            I am struggling with what and how to write all of this. My mind is bouncing around and over everything that has happened over the last almost 3 years. I kind of sped through those first few months with Jane, so I am going back up to the beginning with her.

            I met Jane through a craigslist ad though this is something we never tell anyone. I was lonely and was trying anything to meet someone, to at the very least to make a new friend.  It started with emails, then we began texting and Facebook messaging as well as talking on the phone.  We did this for a week maybe two before we met, during those conversations she eventually asked.  She thought I was a pretty cool guy and was wondering how or why I was single. 

In the beginning

I have always tried to be honest with those I have dated, at least those that I felt something for, but with her I wanted to honest from the beginning.  I was at a point in my life I didn’t want to begin something with her or anyone with this in my closet.  If my crossdressing was going to be an issue or problem I wanted to know now so I could move on. She was very curious and not frightened away or turned off by my confession, which was very encouraging.  We talked about it a lot, my history of crossdressing, my road to personal acceptance, she even read a blog I had started with I was trying to traverse that road of acceptance.

            It intrigued her, because it is so uncommon I suppose and at the time it was rare for someone to be as open about it as I was. After chatting and talking for about a week though it feels like two weeks, we met. I picked her up on my motorcycle and we went out that night and had an amazing time.

            I am going to forgo all the usual relationship things and focus on the relative topic at hand. Things were fun. We had fun. I believe it was our 3rd or 4th date that Jane talked me in to getting dolled up with her and going out. We went to a local drag bar and had a lot of fun. We began doing a lot of fun things dolled up, we would go out to eat, out dancing and even grocery shopping.  One day I met her at work and she brought me inside to meet some of her coworkers. I didn’t think it was a very good idea but she was set on it so in we went, fortunately there was no one in. it was like a ghost town. I was relieved.

Cut it out

Things went like this for a couple of months, I had gotten comfortable around her and began… wearing more feminine things around the house, not necessarily dolling up, but like pantyhose and shorty shorts with regular t-shirts and ‘guy mode’. This is when i noticed her attitude regarding the whole dressing thing changing.

She began to get more frustrated with me, this is about the same time we had gotten pregnant but didn’t know yet. At this point we were no longer doing anything together dolled up. It was like she had a total distain for it, kind of like when you get too drunk on tequila and then want nothing to do with it.  After we found out we were pregnant and I had moved in pretty much anything woman related was out, on any kind of day to day basis. I would still get dolled up on my days off and go out on my own, during the day, most shopping for stuff I would never have the time to wear.

One day I went out, it seems like it was around august, I had go out and decided to get some acrylic nails, but I tried to get them to look as natural as possible, even with matte finish.  I knew I was taking a chance. She didn’t notice until we met her dad that night for dinner. Once we got home she was very upset. I will not get into the specifics, most because I don’t remember the specifics, I have a terrible memory.  When all was said, and done, it was pretty much stop or leave. I could stay and be a dad to my daughter or keep dressing and be a part time dad.

This is me hard, but even unborn my daughter was the most important thing to me in the world. I could understand where she was coming from. It took me nearly twenty years to accept myself and I still am not very open about in regards to certain parts of my life. She has two kids who were still very young at the time, she didn’t want to expose them to that confusion. So it wasn’t just the she didn’t want to be around it. She was also thinking of her family.

Jane is not a bad person. A lot happened in that first year we were together. Our relationship changed dramatically and drastically. So, I don’t hold any of this against her, And I wouldn’t want anyone else to either…

This has been tough to compose, tough to slow the onslaught or thoughts and emotions and try to organize them into a cohesive thought or time line. I am going to stop here for today.

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