Adding: I forgot to elaborate on my short post from yesterday (which is very much related to my most recent post right above): I took on the manly role myself growing up with my mother, couldn’t relate to other girls (didn’t feel like I was one of them). I didn’t fee comfortable with being female, wished I wasn’t, never felt like being pregnant and giving birth (a totally female thing), never entertained such thoughts with any positive sentiment, never was a girly girl, etc.

anita