"It's complicated" --
This is the relationship status I post on my FaceBite page . . . I'm cis-M, attracted to cis-F. That's seemingly straight-forward, except that I'm not "straight" -- Gender orientation is F. Relationships are pretty much some adaptation of "female / female."
Some cis-F find all this somewhat "liberating" -- that I'm "in touch w/ my feminine side" . . . But it's more complicated than that. It's not about "being in touch." It's about being, about who I am.
In 1980, I had a GF who was fine w/ the cross dressing, would buy me stuff. But then now and again she'd come up with, "I'm tired of the same, invariable fantasy all the time. You're never anything but female when we're [together] . . . and sometimes I want straight sex "
Earth to Trudy . . . I'm female when we're not together. It's part of my being "together" for myself.
Non-normative gender relationships are complicated.
Wishing I could offer magic words that would make it all better for you. Time helps. "To thine own self be true."