Not everything in our life has been depressing and we need to remember this while trying to chip away at the prison of old emotions and memories.
I-Amanda was worried that we would have no time to be me after our wife started working from home. We came to an arrangement of times after coming home to dress and be ourself. Although we no longer have the occasional day of working from home in a dress or skirt, we do have more time on average than before and without the stress of having to guess when she would get home.
The salesman at the eye doctor that gender policed us when we even looked at women's glasses is gone. This year, the woman in charge had arranged all of the frames by price range with everything mixed up. We were able to get frames that are feminine, but can be read as more in the neutral range.
Our hair is now nearly halfway down our back and helps with the dysphoria quite a bit.