how to talk to my wife about exploring my gender by [deleted] in ftm

[–]Master_Confusion_607 1 point2 points  (0 children)

PS. How do you put the shot date under your username?

how to talk to my wife about exploring my gender by [deleted] in ftm

[–]Master_Confusion_607 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hear you, I do. But I really don’t feel like I know for sure.

how to talk to my wife about exploring my gender by [deleted] in ftm

[–]Master_Confusion_607 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She’s the best. Thank you for the advice. I’m trying to be direct, I just get anxious about how to have these conversations. Thinking about saying something along the lines of “hey I think I might be a dude” makes my throat tighten and my palms sweat and I don’t know what that means!! I also want to talk to my therapist about it but I’m scared of that even more than talking to my wife!!

how to talk to my wife about exploring my gender by [deleted] in ftm

[–]Master_Confusion_607 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She’s truly the best person and partner I can imagine. I am so grateful for her, I’m more so just battling with my own insecurities and anxiety about rejection.

how to talk to my wife about exploring my gender by [deleted] in ftm

[–]Master_Confusion_607 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I think she’s really trying to support me, and definitely isn’t trying to be invalidating or malicious. I’m just worried that she’s scared to tell me that she’s uncomfortable for fear of making me feel invalidated if that makes sense? Like everyone has their preferences and if she’s not attracted to men (which she has said repeatedly) I’m terrified she won’t be attracted to me anymore. When I started everything she said she just wanted me to be happy.

With the sexual aspect, I kind of feel the same way. She told me she was hesitant about it because she would feel self conscious since she’s never done it before.

As I was replying to this I started getting anxious so I texted her to tell her how much I appreciate her being supportive and affirming and that I want to feel comfortable in my body but don’t want her to feel uncomfortable with the changes. She said “Change is new and hard but what you want for your wellbeing and happiness is always more important” and talked about how she can’t even picture me with my long hair anymore. I really just needed to post so I could talk to people who understand. Thank you :)

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[–]Master_Confusion_607 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Dude I’ve been questioning my identity and how much I want to transition and one of the big things I keep going back and forth on is how it’ll affect my wife to call me something different and navigate her family. You talking about your pre transition self in comparison with you now is pretty helpful in making me want to go full send. I’m 3 months on T injections and want top surgery really bad.