My wife and I have been trying to figure out how to navigate my gender transition together and we're realizing we have completely different ideas about what changes to my body mean for our relationship and our future. We both want to support each other but we're not even using the same language to talk about identity and physical authenticity.
More people experience this than they realize.
Partners are discovering fundamental differences in how they understand the relationship between physical form and authentic selfhood during transition.
“Where Are You with Body as identity — physical self-concept?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.