oh dear that was funny walkby!

MyExodus wrote:

Can't_Make_This_Up, I am with you!  There are moments that I just laugh at the absurdity of it all...the craziness. For crying out loud, his favorite movie is,"Mamma Mia" and he dreams of opening a bed and breakfast! I think sometimes that if I would tell people the whole truth, they might say,"You've been watching too much of the Lifetime Channel." Then I would reply,"I thought I signed up for the Hallmark Channel." So, I wrote two jokes for myself and when things get too much, I think of them and get a chuckle.

Some people get divorced because they want different things; my husband and I are divorcing because we want the same thing. WINK!

I lost 210 pound in 2021!!! (insert applause - how?) Well, first, I lost 40 pounds and then I got rid of my 180 pound husband.

You're not alone. I want off the crazy train.

OMG I haven’t been to this post since I started it in February but so many comments I have! You are cracking me up with ‘Mamma Mia’!!! My STBGX favorite movie is Grease - lol - and now I am pretty sure it’s about John Travolta in tight pants, not Olivia NJ.

I love that you mentioned the Lifetime Channel. I have been saying that after this I am writing a dark comedy for Lifetime about this whole sordid situation! Now I am thinking we do a little series of vignettes titled something like ‘For Real, Am I This Blind’ about these should-have-been obvious signs!

Take care.

Can't make this up:
Out of his Closet here: I am 68.  I divorced my now ex when I was 64.  We'd been married 32 years when he sprang his trans crap on me.  36 years of marriage at divorce; we'd been together 40 years. 

I haven't had "straight" sex in 3 yrs. He only gets turned on when femmed up and I find it so insulting to be told how gorgeous I am and how jealous he is that I am naturally large busted. (if he only really knew how much of a pia they are) One day I said, hey, how about I have them removed and we put them on you as a parting gift and he got ridiculously turned on and happy at the thought that might be possible.
Mine is different. He's spent years buying many thousands of dollars of tools, heavy machinery, etc trying to convince himself and everyone else he was a tough guy. It's why I married him. I wanted a protector. Little did I know that some of those expensive tools were to make sex toys for solo use out in his workshop. I find myself going back and forth between laughter that I married the big tall tough guy and now there's this big tall (6'4", 6'9 in heels over 300 lbs) person lumbering around our home in platform lace up boots and flowy skirts. The cats run away. I have to say it's hard to be kind sometimes, so I leave and go sit at the donut shop. I've gained 27 lbs in 4 months. This person can't perform as a male anymore and would do *anything* I asked to get what this person needs. You know what really makes me laugh til I cry is that I left a 20 yr relationship with a guy who cheated on me, and he didn't make me feel as badly as this "good man" that everyone thinks I'm married to. The irony does not escape me. 

Ok, maybe because my ex is also 6'4" and 300 pounds and had a "flowy" skirt, but I laughed out loud at the picture in my head of the cats scattering at the sight of him.  

I do understand.  I had a lot of sex with my husband in my "accommodation phase."   That sex resulted in lingering trauma.  But it also, ironically, had the effect over time of finally convincing me that I could not stay with him.  Three years from his disclosure to my leaving. 

  Too bad you and I can't get together for a glass of wine.  We would have a lot to say.  And could have a good laugh.  I'm sure it would do you good.