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I'm lost!

Started by RachelH, June 30, 2011, 10:18:21 PM

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RachelH

I've not written for a while, in fact to be honest I put myself back in denial for hope of a normal male female relationship and family. I got back with my ex, something I always thought was a mistake but I was honest with her. She was supporting and was willing to give it a go. However things have turned slightly wrong.

She says she has always been into rugby looking guys , something I  was, at least in appearance. I have apparently lost a lot of weight and looked thinner than and not as toned as I did, not to mention the body fat distribution. I have a much more thin looking male appearance, i.e. not a huge stomach etc. I now have all my fat concentrated on my arse and thighs and boob area! Something I've actually always wanted, but know isn't perfect in the in-between position!. I was on real HRT for a month, and other hormones for several months before that, and I was content as much as I have ever been, I felt happy. Although, I thought I needed to try a middle route, not transitioning but controlling my urges with hormones. The need  to be back on them came back very quickly, but  I have held off for 3 months, but things started to go wrong again, she went out for girly nights, and got ready in front of me and I kept becoming amazingly jealous and even worse insecure with  our relationship. Also, she says I have been acting increasingly feminine, I did warn her! I said that I have hidden my true personality under layers of constructed male persona, or what I thought was male; apparently my best friend says I have missed the point several times! But I am trying to let the true me out, emotions and all, and my love for traditionally distinct female things.

Now I am in a position where I am about to lose my relationship, something that scares me again, but I have accepted before. But I also am about to enter a 12month training period with my dream job and I have to share a cabin with a guy.  Normally I wouldn't mind one bit, but I am amazingly self conscious about how my body currently looks!  In no way am I going to jeopardise it by even suggesting what is happening with me to my company, my GP offered to write a letter and I told him outright it was not a possibility, I have fought through thousands of applicants to get this job, and even though I am going to finish my training much faster as a graduate in this job, and therefore in a much stronger position, I am not going to rock the boat... hmm no pun intended to my job!
It still leaves me amazingly insecure about how and what I should be. I have lost interest in so many male aspects of my life, I used to be really into computer games but I feel they are a little bit pointless now, and I find it hard to be interested in them, my very powerful WOW characters are now nothing to me. I find myself amazingly engrossed in relationships and everything that I have  denied myself previously. I see things such as romantic films and I end up smiling so uncontrollably and almost been ecstatic with them.
I know that my short exposure has released more of the true me then anything I have ever allowed, but I am so unsure what and how I should proceed anymore. I have seen so many girls on here that have become personal heroines to me, but I don't know how to apply that to my own life.

Is there a middle route, like I am trying for, or am I as I have always feared and at the same time longed for going to need a transition? I am so confused again.
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envie

Hello Rachel,

I am sorry you are finding yourself in a tough position!
I think it is hard to give you an advice as only you can make a decision for yourself. But here is how I deal with conundrums like yours.

I give myself a deadline or limit to for how long am I going to endure certain things that might be necessary or unavoidable at times. I don't believe in middle ground anymore when it comes to being myself. i just have to be myself or my life is worthless.
I would for example set the goal to go through the training and keep it quiet but soon after I would be moving forward or be myself which ever applies to the situation.
I wouldn't want to shoot myself into foot so I would gauge if a suspension of my needs for short time could serve the same on the long run.
this is what I would do for myself, you obviously have to make your own decision.
good luck to you!
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JessicaR

   I think that, before transition, we try to live our lives according to how everyone else expects us to be. We get so wrapped up into
an artificial ideal of success but never really figure out how, exactly, that perceived success is going to make us happy. I used to think,
"Ok, if I can get X accomplished, I'll be happy," only to find that X would put me farther away from what I really needed.

     There is nothing that will make you happier than simply being yourself..........Nothing

   If being yourself includes endlessly walking a fence between your own happiness and the happiness of others, then yes, there's
a middle route. You're talking about HRT as if it's an addictive substance that you have to keep away from: "I have held off for three
months." GID is as real a medical condition as any other...  Would a cancer patient "hold off" on chemotherapy to please others?

   It's just my opinion but I think that you already know the answer. Transition involves loss. It's terrifying and it sucks but by holding
off, you're guaranteeing that you'll never be truly happy. In transition, at least, there's the potential for happiness. I remember
feeling the way you do. Now, my only regret is not having made the commitment sooner.

Hugs


   

 


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