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Hi, I'm G. My partner feels more like a dog, and I feel more like a cat. Meow
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Today, I'm going to try drinking from a dog bowl for the first time
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Kay, come get your water. You look so cute. I feel like we've really been judged
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throughout our relationship on a lot of different things, the way we live our life
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We have had death wishes against us. You know, people think we live a wild life
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but it's just normal to me. My sister Mia has sent us a letter
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to tell us how she feels about our relationship. When I learned of it, my eyes grew big
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and I fell silent, shocked, and alarmed. I'm Kay, and this is my partner, G
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People judge my relationship because I feel more like a dog and G feels more like a cat
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We basically, we met online. Yeah, and that was in 2008 during our senior year of high school
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These ones are these ones. I think ones. What do you think
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Furry or leather floppy? Well, I love the furry ones, you know
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Well, you made them both. I made them both. G sent me a friend request and I liked some pictures and was like, I like your hat
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So I guess I said something first. I started socially transitioning when I was 21, like changing my name and asking people
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to call me by different pronouns. but physically I started transitioning in 2018
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You thirsty K? You ready for some water? Today I'm gonna try drinking from a dog bowl
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for the first time. K, come get your water. That was really fun
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I definitely felt very doggy. I saw my reflection in the bowl, like I was unexpected
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Definitely made me feel more in touch with my dog identity. Definitely gonna be using the bowl again
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You look so cute. Hey pup. The first year we were together
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we bought a collar and leash. I guess that was kind of the first time
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that I started to feel sort of like a dog. I love taking photos of each other and together It really just helps me like be grounded in my element I feel like I always kind of been a cat From a young age I had a little cat who basically grew up with me
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Certain things about me are just very cat-like. We had dogs growing up and also cats, and I definitely felt more of an affinity with the dogs
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Once we got together, it came out of me more because certain qualities, like the way I feel devoted
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or want to be in service or just want to be near each other in this sort of companionship way
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Specifically, I identify as a black cat because a black cat is very misunderstood in society
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I'll bark or sort of growl or whimper, and she can sort of understand what I'm meaning in those moments
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I do wear a collar often. This collar in particular is an actual dog collar
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Mine says, K, my puppy love forever. And in the back says, if lost, return to G
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And mine just says, G, forever by your side, my love. My sister Mia has sent us a letter to tell us how she feels about our relationship
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And I'm nervous to read it. When we first got together, she was pretty hesitant
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Yeah, it wasn't like full on board support. I'm not really sure how she feels about the cat and dog personas
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It's not something I talk to her about. K and G, at the beginning of your relationship
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I remember you two being young and oh so in love. K, our mother said it was just a phase
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And even though I saw you happy, I think I believed that maybe you're dating G
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and moving out of state to be with G as soon as you both graduated high school was just a symptom of your rebel ways
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With you, I often process things in terms of trying to protect you, doing whatever I can to help you be safe and well
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Gee, it took a while for us to meet, but when we finally did, it didn't take long for me to discover
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that Kay had found someone special. I don't know if you know this, but I was suspicious of your introversion at first
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Over time, I've learned that it's part of your beauty and part of your reflective, observant, and sensitive ways
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Although I have an unwavering lens of love and support for y'all, I'd be lying if I didn't say
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that some of your changes have thrown me for a loop We started making adult films 12 years ago Sometimes being like in these personas is included in our adult content but not always When you started producing adult content I had
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mixed feelings. Nevertheless it has been interesting to see how that side of your
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life has evolved through your films which I have not seen but I'm proud of y'all for producing
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When I learned of it my eyes grew big and I fell silent, shocked, and alarmed. While it doesn't
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ever arise in my daily conversation, I'd likely feel a bit awkward if it did. I tend to click away
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if I see any risque imagery or footage on your socials, and that is pretty much my philosophy
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I feel like we've really been judged throughout our relationship on a lot of different things
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the way we live our life. You know, people think we live a wild life, but it's just normal to me
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People have judged us for just wanting to show something that people think should be private
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in the public. I feel like a lot of people have said things like
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why do you want to put that out there? Aren't you ashamed to show yourself in this way
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We do have people who will report our posts and who will be constantly hating on us
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but most of our network is very supportive of us. We have had death wishes against us
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That doesn't necessarily feel as much about the judgment, but there was a level of just like an intense hatred toward us like that was unwarranted
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Being judged by others has definitely motivated me to just be more of myself and put myself out
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there and like for every hater we have like more than one person showing us support. When people
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say hateful things about something they don't understand it is an expression of their own
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ignorance and fear. We're gonna go to the local dog park today to run around. When we've gone for
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walks, and that's like without the ears, without the mask, just the leash, we've definitely gotten
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people staring at us. I remember one time a family with a baby in a stroller like shielded their
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child's eyes from looking at us. People will ask like, can I get on the leash too? People will honk
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their horns. We usually just laugh Regarding the cat dog persona that is probably the least processed thing for me I don think I really understand it I don know much about it and tend not to want to see anything that would suggest sexy time with y
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As two creatives, I see your expression of yourselves and your love as part of the long unfolding of your relationship
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It is unique, like you both are, and as long as you are happy and feeling whole in who you are, I am happy for you
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Your resilience, forgiving natures, and commitment to caring for one another while honoring yourselves
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leads me to believe you both will stay together as long as you both desire
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which I'm under the impression is for the long haul. With love, Mia
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Yay. Good job. Thanks. It definitely made me feel emotional. It's really touching to, like, receive these words
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It's beautiful to reflect on, like, not just how, like, much we've grown, but, like, how much also she's grown
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I feel like really like touched, you know, she's so sweet and like it just felt good to be like seen and just like held
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I think our relationship works because we really complement each other. What I love most about G is how G is just creative and passionate
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There's a certain level of like confidence and just like determination that I just really respect
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what I love about Kay is I can be myself with you that you also just make other people feel
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comfortable to be themselves I think that that's a superpower for sure and you're a healer you help
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to heal me you help to heal the world that's so needed what I would say to people who judge our
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relationship is focus on your own self. If you're going to focus on me, then that's fine. You can be
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a hater. Like I welcome it, you know, but all I'm doing is spreading love. And I would just hope that
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you would do the same, like just try to spread love instead of being hateful
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and just be yourself because that's really it