Hi everyone,
I have just rejoined this forum after taking break for almost a year. I was previously a member here with username jayne01. I needed to take time so that I can try and figure some things out. I will try and tell you a little about myself.
I am a 44 year old pre everything mtf. Around mid 2015, I decided to find a psychologist to hopefully find out what was "wrong" with me. I never in my wildest dreams ever considered myself to be trans. Throughout my life, there have always been moments where I wished I was a girl, but had always found a way to dismiss those thoughts as something so terrible and wrong, that I would bury any idea of being a girl into the deepest, darkest corners of my mind. It is approaching 2 years in therapy for me, and I am up to my 4th psychologist. This 4th psychologist is amazing. She has saved my life and is helping me work through my mental barriers to find out who I really am. It is only after all this therapy that I can look back in hindsight to see that I have always been trans and that it is not something that has just happened all out of the blue.
I am married to the most amazing woman for over 15 years. When I came out to her nearly 2 years ago, telling her that I am questioning my gender, she took the news much better than expected, and together we are trying to work through this condition of mine.
I needed to take time away from this forum because I was unable to process being trans while being here. You are all so helpful and wonderful people here, but there was too much information coming my way. Information that I was not ready to accept. Being on this forum was actually causing me additional distress that I did not need. With the help of my therapist, I am now in a much better place and I believe I am ready to once again join this forum.
I have also changed my username from jayne01 to Jessie007. I think I am a better person now than when I was jayne01, so I thought I would use a different name.
Jessie