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Welcome to Transition Together. My name is Cathy; I am 47, married for 23 years and a mother to two wonderful teenage sons. I live in New Brunswick, Canada work full time and up to a little under two years ago lived a standard life.
In September 2022, my spouse of 21 years told me they were experiencing gender dysphoria. At first, I was in shock. My personality required me to do research, understand what this term meant and find other people who had experienced the same thing and came out the other side as happy couples. I found it difficult to see myself in the other stories I saw online. Many blogs and resources were focused on younger people, parents of people with gender dysphoria or of course the person transitioning themselves.
I decided to start this blog for a few reasons.
- To help other people going through something similar not feel alone. A couple months ago I saw a video on TikTok by @transwifelife that inspired me to tell my own story. I knew I wanted to help bring normalcy to the feelings and experiences involved with loving someone who is transitioning.
- To educate those who are interested in being educated. No, I’m not a doctor or therapist, but I am someone who does research and loves to learn about what is going on around me; and boy have I learnt a lot in the last couple years!
- Lastly to help myself; journaling is important, but I struggle to stick with it. I think it’s because there doesn’t seem to be a purpose or goal. I’m optimistic that getting my thoughts out will be therapeutic for me, while hopefully helping others.
- You will see our posts go back and forth between my spouse and me. We hope this provides a different perspective to the same situation as we work through the challenges of marriage and parenting while we maneuver this big change in our lives.
2 responses to “Loving Someone with Gender Dysphoria”
Love this, and with greater than 80% marriage survivability when one transitions. I think that it is important for y’all that decide to try and stay to work it out. Is so valuable 💜
Thank you Britley. Staying together is our plan!