The Sweet Husband

Trying to make the SH feel better

Tonight Lisa Ling, Our America was about Transgender people.First it was young people, and I had to explain to the SH what it was.

The first few were about women that knew from birth they were men so at some point when they were over 21, they took testosterone and had surgery removing their breasts and became men without all the equipment.

The SH had a hard time with this mental picture and he was more along the lines of if you don't have it all, you aren't a man anyway, and besides that's the most fun part so what the hell are they doing?

The last segment was a 55 year old man that had always identified as a woman, he had been married for 30 plus years,so when he decided to have the surgery, the total surgery for him, and the hormones, his wife just became a lesbian and stayed with him.

I just kept quiet and waited.

First he says that is insane, he let them cut his * off. Then he says, if I ever lost my mind and decided I was a woman, you wouldn't stay married to me would you?

I said no, but at least your * would be cut off by someone you loved, not by a total stranger.

Now he says he's afraid to go to sleep,just because he brought it up, I might think he wanted to do that and would butcher him in his sleep.

I thought it might make him feel better so I told him that I had wanted to butcher him in his sleep many times and had never done it so why would I start now?

Apparently that didn't make him feel as much better as I thought it would.