4 Essential Tips on How to Come Out as Trans to Your Partner!
Dr. Z discusses coming out to your partner. In her practice, she tends to see many people who are in a relationship and decide to transition. One of the biggest fears they face by coming out to their partners is losing or ending their relationship—which is a very realistic and normal fear to have.
In this video she'd like to share with you four important tips to think about prior to coming out to your partner, as it can hopefully help you with this process.
Tip number one: Do stop watching internet accounts of people coming out and losing their relationship or their partner—stop, just stop. First, acknowledge that every relationship is incredibly different. What others tell their accounts will only feed into your fear and magnify it to the point of paralyzing you.
Believe her when she says this: she sees relationships make it through transition all the time. Not every couple ends up breaking up—that's really important to acknowledge here. Many factors go into making relationship work, including the status of relationship prior to transition.
Watch to find out all 4 tips for coming out to your partner.
And if you are also planning to come out at your work, you will find this post helpful: Best Way to Come Out at Work as a Transgender Person.
