The Box in the Closet: A Wife's Difficult Journey as Her Husband Becomes a Woman

by Jayne Doxtater for The Vancouver Observer
It began with the discovery of the box. Hidden, but not that hidden in the closet of my husband was a box I had never seen before. We had been married for 7 years and I had never felt such an inclination to want to look through something of his. It was as if it was some mysterious item that one would find in a dark cave in some foreign land. The ‘curse of the mummies,’ I thought and then told myself I’d been watching too many movies. I put down the laundry and knelt on the floor. I lay his laundry next to me and slid the box out of the closet. I opened it.

The first thing I saw was stockings and lots of them. That wasn’t new for him or me as we had been playing around sexually with garter belts and stockings. But there was more. Synthetic breasts, bras, high heel shoes. I saw red and every other shade of anger and hurt. Was he having an affair?  Read the rest of this story on The Vancouver Observer