How do I get the courage

Wonderful words Renee! ThNk you! 💋Lilly

The only reason I don't shave my body all the time is to keep my wife happy, and even then, if I really want to, why, it's my body. No-one else has any right whatsoever to say what you can or cannot do with your body, including the clothes you choose to wear.

It's not so much about finding courage, it's about recognising and standing up to the monsters under your bed - your fears.

Precautions are one thing, safeguarding the interests of others another, but fear paralyses. It has no place in the comparatively safe world that most of us Internet users inhabit.

Take a walk in the country en femme. Or through a busy town.

As long as your country or state has no laws against cross dressing, you'll not only be fine, but liberated.

You only have the one life.

Love Laura.

Thank you, Laura, your words are so inspiring. i believe in August I will get my ears pierced and in September get my eyebrows shaped.  Step by step, somewhere in there comes ‘the talk’ with my wife

Good luck with the talk, Bobbie.

My top tip is to be prepared for any outcome - don't expect the one you want, but don't settle for nothing either.

A marriage takes compromise to make it work.

I hope this helps.

Love Laura

Unfortunately, my marriage is not strong to begin with.  My wife has become a very different woman than the one i fell in love with, and i am not sure she is any happier with me especially since i left the chirch

Bobbie,

I hear you sister! Mine is similar. My wife got religion and eventually got her ministry credentials and now is ordained. Not exactly an open mind with LGBT and cross dressing. I wish I could have “the talk” with my wife but I fear a breakup will result. We are not a strong marriage either as I did not follow her to the church.

I wish you all the best in your talk!!!

Lilly

i am right there with you. I have been shaving my legs for months and no one has said anything if they have even noticed, not even my daughters

in our case it’s the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also not especially LGBTQ or crossdresser friendly .  She was raised in the Church but left for several years but returned and brought me with her.  I suspect the talk will be the straw that breaks the camels back.  i cannot go on suppressing what i am; this pretending to be someone i am not hs left me nearly suicidal when coupled with my struggle since my medical career was ended by my neuromuscular disorder

Bobby,

I hope for the best!!! You should be happy...

i am getting  help thru The VA and my counselor is very supportive of my crossdressing as well as other short te goals to provide reasons to keep going.  i hope that my wife will accept me as i am but either way i am what i am and i need to breathe.  This site has been not only an inspiration but quite literally a lifesaver 

Vegas honey. Mind your own business easy to do. Sounds like your upset. Vegas will eliminate that if you can take care of yourself. You do that and the blinds are open. You decide, you want to waste your life in a cave or do you respect yourself and make yourself a beautiful sissy that you are and want to be. It is easy if you get out of your way and stop acting, just be a feminine sissy you honey, talk to others like myself we like being this way. Peace.

A "nice" question for those of a religious persuasion is to ask where, exactly, the bible forbids cross dressing or female priests for that matter...

Welcome Tina!