I don't want to hijack this thread, but thank you for your replies Ashley, I love to start a thread on ''life after transition'' makes me feel I'm not alone, after all our stress going thru transition, then just very normal life when it's all done, your so right

Quote from: tgirlamc on August 31, 2016, 03:58:18 PM
He does the guy stuff and I am another boring housewife!!!

Your relationship so similar to mine, yes hubby does all the guy stuff, heavy outside chores and fixing things, I do the wife stuff cooking, cleaning, dusting, laundry etc. life goes on, but I wouldn't change it, I love being a woman.
Welcome to married life.
Pauline

Guys started looking a whole lot more attractive when I started progesterone.

Two things happened in parallel. I was taking hormones. That worked on how I looked and I looked better to men who act completely differently toward me than before I started to transition. The women I tried to date really were not very good lovers--clumsy and self-absorbed in my experience. The men knew exactly what to do and knew their way around a woman's body. (Sorry lesbians, but I have to be honest here.)

So it that men are better lovers? Did something get switched on in my brain? Did men's positive behavior open a door?

All this shifting happened post-op. Pre-op I did not dare chance sex. I transitioned in the early-mid 1970s and it was a very dangerous time to be pre-.

Quote from: Virginia Hall on September 25, 2016, 06:03:07 PM
All this shifting happened post-op. Pre-op I did not dare chance sex. I transitioned in the early-mid 1970s and it was a very dangerous time to be pre-.

I'm always honored to have a woman like you join us Virginia!!! Doing this stuff in the 70s was a task of unimaginable difficulty... A high wire act without a safety net.... Information was so difficult to get in those pre internet times and I would like to thank you for blazing the trail for all who followed you!!!... I try to repay the girls who went before me by paying it forward to those that come behind

Take Care,

Ashley

Sorry but to me the last thing I want is to be attracted to men. Being male I have never had a desire to be with men. In fact I have always been comfortable around women more then men. I've been with my wife for 30 years, the last thing I want is to think about being with someone else.

I suppose that I was bisexual before. Although, I didn't really get a lot of experience one way or the other I experimented in both directions.

I found my wife attractive, but when I was with her, I switched places with her in my mind.

There was a gay man that liked me a lot when I was pre-op and I gave that a try and it wasn't for me. I think that I was too distracted by my own body and he wanted to be with a man. 

I did have a brief relationship with a straight man while I was pre-op and somehow that was completely different. He was willing to wait for me through SRS and everything, but I ended up breaking it off. I think that I needed to be unattached for a while.

In the end, I view myself as mostly hetero. That is, I am really only interested in men - my husband these last two decades.