50 Years Married To A Man Named Sissy

Death, Sex & Money

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Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Vickie Goodwin tried to raise her husband's self esteem early in their marriage. But when he started cross dressing publicly, she struggled to accept that it was part of who he was. Sign up for our newsletter at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter, and every Wednesday we'll send you podcast listening recommendations, listener letters from our inbox and updates from the show. Follow our show on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @deathsexmoney. Got a story to share? Email us any time at [email protected]. Support Death, Sex & Money today at deathsexmoney.org/donate.

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0:00.0	Where did the name Sissy come from?
0:02.0	Oh, the name Sissy.
0:04.0	Well, I was in Laramie one day,
0:07.0	and this lady called me a Sissy,
0:09.0	and I was really offended.
0:11.0	She just walked by you and spat that out. She just she says you look like
0:16.0	sissy and I thought you know I I guess I am and if I took the name myself it took some of the sting off when people called me that.
0:26.0	I owned it.
0:28.0	Here I am, this is what I am and deal with it.
0:31.0	This is death, sex and money.
0:37.0	Do you still love me?
0:38.0	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.
0:41.0	You're killing me tonight.
0:42.0	I need to talk about more please money
0:45.2	can't buy happiness I'm Anna Sale. Sissy Goodwin lives with his wife Vicky in Douglas, Wyoming.
0:58.0	It's a city of about 6,000 people that's also home to the Wyoming State Fair and the world's largest
1:03.6	jackalope. Vicky and Sissy have called Douglas home for most of their lives.
1:08.8	I always feel like there's a kind of a long rubber band that pulls us back to Douglas.
1:16.0	What's it like here?
1:18.0	Kind of cliqueish.
1:20.0	Clickish, what do you mean?
1:22.0	Oh, if you weren't born and raised here and had three generations, you're an outsider.
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