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Started by Diamonds_mom, September 24, 2013, 03:31:28 PM

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Diamonds_mom

My mtf so is wearing jewellery, a purse and perfume.  She is wanting to replace her whole wardrobe.  She is going to be filling out forms to go for gender councelling and then is going to be put on a long list to get to see someone.  I am want to be with a male and not a female.  She has discussed hrt and surgery.  I have told her I would stay with her until we grow old. I am having problems with that decision. I have told her the more female she get's the more problems I have with sharing a bedroom with her.  I have told her that at some point I would be moving into another bedroom. This did not go over to well of course.  I feel very alone and lost as I lose my husband.  Is there anyone else out there who's also is thinking of moving into a separate bedroom or has moved into another bedroom from their so?  I would really appreciate some advice
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Donna Elvira

Hi,
I imagine you are mostly expecting or hoping for replies from others in a similar situation to your own. It is not my case except that I am also an MtF very much in the final stages of my transition and also married to a women I love very much.
I have read your previous posts so I know you are the wife of another one of our members but I'm still going to stick my neck out a bit and tell you that you also have the right to look after yourself.
We all understand how difficult it can be for many women (or men with a FtM partner) to discover some day that the man or woman they married is in reality a very different person to what they thought. While some couples do survive and even prosper, many break up in the process. However in spite of your own difficulties handling the situation you now find yourself in, you have courageously and generously decided to stand by your spouse through thick and thin. You can be proud of yourself for that but you also need to insure that you don't take on more than you can handle, something that would not be in anyone's interest.
You are the only one who can decide on what will work for you and what other couples do is basically irrelevent. Whether you get answers from other people in the same situation as you should therefore not be a significant deciding factor.
No matter what, don't feel bad about taking care of your own needs too. It's called self preservation...
Kindest regards
Donna
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Jamie D

You can always try couples counseling.
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blueconstancy

I'm very sorry. :( I haven't replied since we still share a bedroom, but I'm willing to talk in general. For one thing, you shouldn't force yourself; if you find you simply cannot stay with a woman, that promise (however well-meaning) should be void. In the meantime, if sleeping in separate beds makes you happier or more comfortable, it's not only a good thing to do for yourself, but it may be a good thing for the *relationship* - it might leave you with more energy and ability to cope with the rest of the changes.

As Peregrine says, too, it's definitely a transition for loved ones as well. Not the same kind, precisely, but those of us who choose to accompany a trans person on their journey have our own challenges to face and transitions to make. I also had to spend time grieving and coming to terms with things, and that's not a failure; it may not make any logical sense, but there can be a genuine and pervasive sense of loss even if the "same person" is still there.

(We do have a three-bedroom house in which we share one room and each got our "own room"/office, but I don't think that's what you meant. On the other hand, I also know more than one cis couple who have slept apart for years or decades and are still happily married. It means only what YOU choose to have it mean, and don't let anyone - even your spouse - tell you what sort of statement you intend to make.)
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Diamonds_mom

I would like to give a little more information about my background.  My so and I have been in counselling for over 19 years.  It started out as counselling for my so depression and we've also had marriage counselling.  I'm in counselling now and my counsellor said to me the other day that she has seen my so and I for quite a few years.  She said that in reading back to the other counsellors notes our relationship has never been a healthy one and continues to this day to be unhealthy.  I don't think my so would be to happy with that statement.  I am really hesitant to get into the details as I'm worried as to what my so would say.  If our relationship were on solid ground then I stay with her but it is not a good relationship so I am left to be confused as to what to do.  Her coming out is just another crisis that can be added to the history of our relationship.  I'm sorry to sound like such a downer but I thought some history of what our lives have been like would help make things clearer.   
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