My name is (or was) Christopher James. My wife and I married when we were eighteen; we had some family money and we moved to this beautiful country to farm and to raise our two boys, who came along in the first years of our marriage. We wanted a place we could manage and work ourselves and we chose to live in what many thought of as wilderness but which we regarded as blessed solitude. The nearest settlement was an hour's drive away but we were not lonely. Irma and I had each other. We taught the boys at home but when Peter was ten and Larry nine we realised that they needed to learn to mix with children of their own age so we sent them to boarding school. To our relief they thrived; they loved the holidays at home but they also enjoyed school.
Physically they took after Irma's family. I am only five foot nine and slim and Irma is similar but all the other members of her family are six foot or more and the men are massively muscular. By the time our boys were sixteen they loomed over their mother and me and could pick either of us up off the floor with ease.
I had a secret life, unknown to any of my family. I loved woman's clothes and longed to wear them. Sometimes, when my wife and the boys were asleep, I would take my wife's panties and stockings into our bathroom and try them on. I shuddered with pleasure as the nylons slid up my legs and I loved the feeling when I pulled my cock and balls between my legs and secured them with the silk and lace of a pair of pretty panties. I would admire my silhouette in the mirror in our bathroom and would run my hands over my titties, tweaking my nipples into life and then pushing down my panties and stimulating my cock to shoot my sperm. After a while I learnt to gather my sperm in my hand and savour its taste and texture, licking it up fervently. But I wanted more, far more.
I made a den for myself in one of the outhouses and filled it with man stuff: bits of old machinery, broken agricultural equipment and so on and no one was allowed in but me. In fact I was not tinkering with wood and metal but with silk and lace and satin. I bought lovely panties, bras, suspender belts, stockings, slips, shoes, dresses and makeup on the internet and this was my wardrobe and the land where I became a woman.
Obviously, I was very restricted as to how often I could spend time there, but there was one two -week period each year when the boys were at school and my wife went to visit her sister abroad. Then I transferred some of my favourite clothes to a spare bedroom and it became my room as a woman and for two blessed weeks I lived as the woman I knew I really was. Ordinarily, no one except the post man ever came near the farm and he left the mail in a box half a mile down the drive from the house. So, when I had taken my wife to the airport and walked back through my front door, I immediately ceased to be Christopher, the husband, the father of two boys, and became Chrissie, the lovely woman who lived alone and dreamed of strong men.
One day I was returning from the hen house, where I had collected the day's eggs. I saw a man approaching along the drive. He had clearly seen me and I thought that to run away would be more suspicious than to brazen it out. I prayed that my attention to make-up and to walking like the lady I knew myself to be would make me a believable woman. As he drew closer I realised he was an itinerant who had come the year before asking for work. I hadn't liked the look of him and had refused.
'Is Mr James at home, ma'am?' he asked.
'No, I said. He isn't. I'm his sister.'
'I thought I saw a resemblance but, my, you're much prettier than him,' he said.
'Can I do anything for you, little lady?' he asked with just a hint of a leer.
'No thank you, I said. My brother does the hiring.'
'It seems a shame for him to leave a pretty lady like you all on her own.' He said. 'It's not safe.' He moved towards me and I saw lust in his eyes. I was delighted and terrified. A man thought I was a woman and he wanted me in the crudest, most powerful way.
I said, 'Oh, I'm not alone. Both my nephews are home from college and they're in the house.'
He pulled up short. Whether he believed me I don't know but he was sufficiently uncertain to desist.
'You sure are a beautiful lady, if you don't mind my saying so, ma'am.'
I replied, 'I don't mind. Thank you for the compliment.'
I watched him walk away and after he had walked about a hundred yards he turned his head and winked at me.
That night I lay on my bed, pleasuring myself. I had bought my first dildo and as I lubed up my mancunt I thought of the rough man who had come and, as I pushed deeper inside myself and the dildo found my prostate and I let out a cry of delight, I imagined it was the long, thick cock of just such a vagrant, which was shooting his baby-batter into my pussy and impregnating my longing womb.
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After school the boys went to college and I continued to subsist on briefly snatched moments and my two weeks of delight each year. After college Peter travelled for a year and then both boys decided they wanted to live at home and develop the farm. This sounded to me like my doom. I should no longer be sure of any time when I could be myself for, certainly, I was Chrissie, not Christopher. I fell into the worst depression I have ever experienced and I could not tell anyone why. The boys took over the running of the farm because I became all but incapable of making decisions and they and their mother kept the show on the road. The boys' plans for development were put on hold. It must have been utterly frustrating for them.
My only successful decisions in two years were to grow my hair and, secretly, to begin a course of feminising tablets. My hair is strawberry blond with a natural wave to it. My wife's only comment as it started to frame my face with a soft curl was that she wished her hair was as attractive. She and I had ceased having sex years before; I had moved into a separate bedroom; we told ourselves we should sleep better like that; our marriage had become companionable, rather like brother and sister, except that we shared the parentage of our boys, who now were strapping men, each of them well over six feet tall and magnificently built.
The result of the tablets was that my breasts started to swell and become feminine with rosy nipples and a distinct aureole. My cock and balls had always been small to average and now they became rather smaller and easier to tuck away. I hid the changes with loose clothing, but, when my breasts enlarged to a C cup, I wore a restraining bodice below my shirt which looked like a sweat shirt to the casual observer.
I might have remained in this sexless and miserable limbo but, suddenly, when Peter was twenty- five and Larry twenty-four, like lightening from a clear sky, their mother died. She had been completely well except for worrying about my depression. She had a heart attack and she was no more. Of necessity I took over running the house, cooking and cleaning. It saved me, for in my mind I became the woman of the house, caring for my men who worked the farm. I let them make the decisions and I felt oddly happy.
A year after my wife died I decided to tell my boys I intended to live as a woman. I should keep my cock and balls but in all else I should be female.
They looked stunned, as though I had hit them over the head with a baseball bat.
I said, 'I know it's a shock but I hope in time you will be able to understand that the feeling that I am, and must be, a woman has been growing on me for many years. It was this, and the apparent impossibility of ever doing anything about it, which led to my breakdown. The only way I can avoid slipping back into that dark place is by becoming myself. I am now going to dress as me.'