How to explain what I feel?

Paula G · Post by **Paula G** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 12:10 pm

Thinking about this I have given up smoking - no I became a non smoker - and every year I give up drinking for around a month, giving up drinking for a period is harder than becoming a non smoker was, at least in part because I know I am temporarily denying myself something I want, by becoming a non smoler I released my self from needing to smoke. With my cross dressing I have tried to stop, and now know I can't, I think I am comming to terms with it being part of me, I could as well try to give up breathing.

So,,, a good stream that has made at least me think.

Wendae · Post by **Wendae** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 2:20 pm

Now that I am approaching 70 and a diabetic(among other ailments) I'm tired of giving up small pleasures. I quit smoking over 10 rears ago (still miss it) Quit drinking several times as well as dressing. No more. I'm not gonna deny myself any more. SKOAL!

Absaroka · Post by **Absaroka** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 7:44 am

Paula I like how you described it as not giving up smoking, but becoming a non smoker.

When something becomes a big problem, then we are not really giving it up, we are freeing ourselves from it. A social drinker gives up drinking, an alcoholic allows themselves not to drink.

Dressing is not something I feel the need to free myself from.