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What specific items or events trigger temptations for you and what strategies have you found to overcome those specific incidences?
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That's interesting. I and many others have used that same strategy to diffuse crossdressing temptations as they come. But I often wonder about something. There are crossdressers who actually look good, so I would suppose this doesn't work for them, especially if they crossdress before others and are praised for their appearance. I have and still do utilize your strategy, but I think there needs to be much more behind it, otherwise it's too easy to find ways around that, especially through our self-deception. If you crossdress alone, and you look good in the mirror (even if in reality you look hideous) then this strategy again can fail that way.
I think it may be better in the moment to remind ourselves of the deeper reasons we don't want to crossdress, the deeper reasons why we know crossdressing is harmful in our lives. Perhaps reflecting on the confusion it causes, the memories of out of control addiction, etc. No reason you can't use your strategy at the same time, but I don't want to rely on any strategy that simply boils down to me telling myself I won't appear well or it won't be pleasurable, because the reality is that it sometimes will be pleasurable (for the moment) or appear good. So we need to remind ourselves over and over why we made the decision to stop, remind ourselves how it truly makes us feel.
To end, your strategy works much better if you keep a beard. Then you will really have no chance of looking good.

Try it
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Keith, thank you for sharing about the change in your marriage! That is so encouraging. Crossdressing so easily becomes a replacement for intimacy with our wives, in many different ways. It gave me joy to read of this positive change you are now experiencing!
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I am tempted by a constant reminder that I am not anyone's match. There is no "other me" who knows me so well, we finish each other's sentences. I settled for my wife, whom I found on a Christian dating site. We love each other but have almost nothing in common. She will not dress any way I ask, but I have to dress the way she expects. So when I see something I like, my only other choice is to return to lusting after strangers ("soft porn"?) or wear the darn thing myself and take a selfie using an app that can make me look like a woman.
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I don't have disphoria toward my body. I have it toward the limited variety of clothes I'm confined to. Men tried hard in the '70s to make suits of different colors than black, but that faded out quickly. I don't necessarily want frilly or feminine; I just want different- not the same old boring, predictable standby. I would love to try clothes that men from other countries wear, but those are hard to get in the US.