Support for Partners: Trans Couple Guidance & Tips
Dr. Z shares tips for partners of trans-identified individuals (seventh and final video in series covering five most common phases partners go through).
In this final video—well, she doubts it will be her final video, but some of you will have questions and there will probably be additional videos apart from the series on how to navigate relationships, what you can do as partners, what partners can do for you—she wanted to share some tips, some things she's seen that tend to work.
For starters, she wants to say: she sees a lot of relationships making it. She sees a lot of relationships surviving (so to say) transition. And then she sees relationships that don't make it.
Relationships she sees tend not to make it through gender transition don't make it for two primary reasons: (1) they genuinely realize "you know what, this is just not something that's going to work out for me—I'm really not attracted to your new gender expression/gender identity, and it's really important for me in terms of the person I have to be with," or (2) they're missing an essential formula—what she calls the essential formula to make sure relationship can survive: traction + time.
Watch to find out the essential formula and tips to help your relationship survive.
