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Successful TV married couples have learned to look at each other as human beings first, as the married partner second and as members of society last. They want to make each other happy and have managed to do so regardless of the odds against them. Isn't this what love is all about; to make him or her happy? These GGs have a mature love for their husbands which doesn't diminish the minute he puts on a dress and a wig. These women know that it is still their husband under all that "stuff", even if he thinks that he is a "living doll" at the time. No one is fooling anyone even if they use a femme name for "hubbybelle". Does it really matter? The wife is simply doing her job, taking care of her man, so he can relax, express something very import- ant to him, and then get back to his everyday role as provider, protector, lover etc. When the femme- session is over the husband many times will take "wifie" out to dinner and dancing so both have a little "fling" and both feel better about it. Per- haps it isn't always as simple as I have pictured it to be, but why all the fuss by both husband and wife when a little effort here and there will bring them both happiness. "A" couples have faced the truth together and turned a problem into a way of life.
There are of course many "troubled" couples that just can't seem to reach any kind of a solution with or without outside help. I have met and worked with dozens of these so called "C", "D" and a few "Z" cases along the way and must agree with what Susanna says about wives hating it all and TVs dream- ing up all kinds of situations for the "girl within" But the vast majority of these marriages were in trouble long before the wife was told about TVism. If the marriage is on the rocks, so to speak, TVism certainly won't bring it together, but a good shot of honesty on both parts can't possibly make it any worse than it already is. The basic problems with bad TV marriages is ignorance, (sexual, and social), salfishness and immaturity with occasionally a re-
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