This study is not only my research, but also my life story. I entered this research bearing indescribable fatigue. I needed release from this predicament, and by using self-narrative as a form of investigation into my life, I could uncover and capture this exhaustion as a way to make peace. The research attempts to bridge society and the military, and pull "fatigue" from the covers of culture, and open a space for dialogue. It is within this space that I share my life experience as a "sissy". I describe how "love" was driven far from my heart as I walked through life with "hate". How through my leaving and returning of home, as well as the family chosen between, I finally recognized my self-hatred as the root of this exhausting "love" and "hate". How by falling in love with myself, finally finding reconciliation.