I hope this sounds full on pissed off and not whiney.

I've been out and living as a woman since 2004, and have been treated by the normals (Muggles) amazingly well, though in the last year, it has been getting more and more difficult to pass well.

I've been helping my 66 year old, little brother with converting his van to an RV because I spent 32 years as an Electrician. I'm retired, and would love to be done with all that. He and his French wife are amazingly high strung and illogically crisis oriented. Listening to the two of them interact is a trial of megalithic proportions. AND, he tries to do everything the cheap way and has not one ounce of mechanical ability, though he thinks he does.

Yesterday, I was assisting them with the installation of a small, propane fueled, electric furnace, that to me is as simple as putting in a TV. We put it together, to "bench test" and it would not work. The issue is the air flow switch through the burner unit (5 blinks) and we eventually decided to not open up the unit to avoid, voiding the warranty, the unit is made in the UK. I was becoming disabused of the situation, and he found out that the unit was used when he bought it through Ebay.

After toiling with various aspects of this project for over a weeks elapsed time, I am sick of it. Then his wife and I are talking and she says I have the sleeping habits of a man (!!!!). I felt insulted and devalued and wonder why I abandoned my policy of not seeing relatives? Without saying anything, I said that I was tired and going on to take a nap.

Someone kick me. I brought this on myself and am feeling quite hurt.