I also see transitioning as having a beginning and an end. At first I called it a 'journey' with some ill-defined destination, but now it's a fairly well-defined trip with most of the details already worked out. It's just a matter of turning the crank.
I know where I'm going, and when I get there, my transition will have been completed. It won't take long. I've been on a tear for 10 months and estimate about another year to wrap it up. Living full-time in my natural gender changes the equation. When I wake up in the morning and my first thought is not about my gender, I'll know I have arrived.
I've already moved beyond many of my CD friends who seem to have found a stable sweet spot in their cross gender expression, and have trouble relating to me except as another CD. They are nice people, I'll always be a friend to them, but the cross dressing life is not where I'm at anymore. It makes me smile to watch the giddy glee my CD friends feel when an opportunity arises to get out en femme. I know what that was like so I don't fault them, but it's in my rear view mirror now. Ahead lies a different kind of happiness.
My DW and I see ourselves as a same-sex couple wanting to reach out to others like us, as well as to cisgender singles and couples that don't see us as anything but normal people who are fun to be around.
Clara
I know where I'm going, and when I get there, my transition will have been completed. It won't take long. I've been on a tear for 10 months and estimate about another year to wrap it up. Living full-time in my natural gender changes the equation. When I wake up in the morning and my first thought is not about my gender, I'll know I have arrived.
I've already moved beyond many of my CD friends who seem to have found a stable sweet spot in their cross gender expression, and have trouble relating to me except as another CD. They are nice people, I'll always be a friend to them, but the cross dressing life is not where I'm at anymore. It makes me smile to watch the giddy glee my CD friends feel when an opportunity arises to get out en femme. I know what that was like so I don't fault them, but it's in my rear view mirror now. Ahead lies a different kind of happiness.
My DW and I see ourselves as a same-sex couple wanting to reach out to others like us, as well as to cisgender singles and couples that don't see us as anything but normal people who are fun to be around.
Clara