Character Study Steve Baker in The Good Wife

Steve Baker

My wife, Barbara, has a friend named Audrey who sells candles using a ladies’ day get together as a means.  They have a theme for the month.  She, Audrey, was called away at the last moment and my wife agreed to host the party at our house in her place.  Barbara is enthused about the candles and likes them so she didn’t want a month to go by without the party being held.

I have to get ready to go out to meet some friends of mine and this candle party is kind of getting in the way of that.  My friends expect me to be impeccably attired when we meet  They accept me no matter how I dress, although they can be quite critical if what I’m wearing isn’t up to par or, worse, doesn’t match in color or style to what they think.

I discovered an affinity for women’s’ clothes a few years back.  At first I wore silky underwear and that became more and more feminine as I became more comfortable with the notion of wearing it until, finally, I have a full array of women’s clothes that look pretty good on me, even if I say so myself.  A further advantage is that I can wear many of Barbara’s clothes.

Barbara has a more difficult time with it than she lets on.  She found out about my proclivity about a year ago when I was trying on a pair of her panty hose and she accidentally saw me in them.  I admitted my situation to her and asked that she not be too awfully critical of me but try to understand and work with me to keep it in the mix and not let it overwhelm either of us.  She agreed.

There has been a lot of family therapy since then.  We have two daughters, one grown and on her own and the other at Wellesley College in her second year.  Both of them are have expressed little or no concern about me; the younger one even supports me in my cross dressing.  She refers to me as Mom.

To further complicate the situation, I am an accountant for one of the more prestigious firms in the city.  I have a low profile in that I don’t do a lot of client relationship kinds of things but do more of the “grunt” work behind the scenes to keep companies in favorable tax situations.  My recommendation are usually made to the client by one of the partners so there is little or no public exposure for me.  This plays nicely into my situation.

I did some research on the internet about cross dressing and the best explanation  I have follows:

“Russell O’Connor has always felt trapped between male and female, but he finds freedom in dressing as a woman.

What follows can be found on: http://www.rolereboot.org/life/details/2013-02-living-between-male-and-female