"I recently came out as nonbinary. But there’s one thing that’s eating away at me: I’m AFAB and my partner is a cis man...I can’t shake this deep, deep fear that in the pit of his heart, he still sees me as a woman. Part of the reason I feel this way is that he identifies as straight. I have no doubts that he’s still attracted to me as I shift my gender presentation, but there’s a small part of me that can’t reconcile the idea of him being straight, but dating me, a person who is not a woman. Like, make it make sense? What is the best way for me to have a conversation about ways he can treat me differently so I feel my gender presentation is being truly understood?" — Mx.Understood, they/them