Hi Everyone
My name is Karen and I have been reading the forums here since early Feb and never thought I would be inroducing myself but everyone seems so nice here...it's time! A little about myself....first off I'm mature, actually I'm 60 and I have been married for 32 years to a wonderful woman who is my life. I came "out" to her about 10 months ago. I am transgendered. Why did I wait so long to tell her? FEAR!! The funny thing is when I told her she said that she suspected something was different about me. She told me that there was something that she fell in love with the moment we met. She said she had never met a male that was so thoughtful and emotional as me. Can you imagine? Now from the begining. I was always a loner and never really fit in, not to say I wasnt popular because I was, it's just that I knew something wasnt right. I started trying on moms clothes when I was just starting into my teens and at that moment I thought I had died and gone to heaven. I continued to dress evey chance I got until one night my parents came home early and caught me! It was the worst night of my life. Now you have to realize that this was in the 50's and ealy 60's and noone new what a transgendered person even was, especially not my parents. They thought I was sick. My father asked me if I was some sort of pervert or something. I was devistated. That was when I was 14. That night I put Karen to sleep and she's been sleeping for 46 years!! I did everything in my power to convince my parents and everyone I ever met that I was a male, a man, a macho man! I lifted weights and got muscles, went out partying, and had more relationships then I care to remember. 10 months ago I decided it was time to wake Karen up. I regret missing gowing up with her and letting her be the young woman that she was suppose to be. I think I've gone on long enough, more later
