When I went away to school, I took along several items which my sister had discarded and added several items of my own purchase. So I got my start in childhood as I suppose most of us do, for being a TV is fun and why waste a lot of years missing it.

Then came marriage. I was surprised to find my interest in wearing female attire myself continued after marriage. I had somehow supposed, I guess, that my feminine dressing was a pre-marriage substitute for feminine companionship.

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my wife likewise had not expected to find her husband inter- ested in sometimes wearing panties, bras and skirts. But with the help of a sensible psychiatrist (and there are such) we both were enlightened on the subject of transvestism and set out to explore what it might add to our lives. Luckily for both of us, my wife loves me and therefore was predis- posed to accept my liking for wearing dresses simply because that was a part of me. Then we both discovered that this acceptance on her part, opened the door to a closer togeth- erness in our relationship.

The next step which came quickly, was my wifes happy discovery that my adopting an element of womanliness myself was a sincere appreciation of the very thing my wife was, a woman, so her own opinion of herself went up. "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery", as the old proverb has it, so my wanting to imitate a woman led my wife to reasses upward her own position as a woman and to see and appreciate more the fortunate aspects of her own being as a human fe-

male. Finally she came to see how my "woman-side" is an largement of my own personality, making me more, not less, of a person.

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On my part, I realized how deeply transvestism was an innate part of me, as much as blue eyes or curiosity or my own particular IQ--but how if I'd gotten a woman who wasn't understanding she could have made a shambles of our marriage. So I appreciated and loved this understanding, companionable wife of mine more than ever. For all the se reasons plus the fact that on occasion we use my transvest ism in happy loveplay, this "strange condition" within me has enriched our relationship as man and wife and our life