I dont want to give up on Naturism ,I love it. So I need help and prayer , for patience.

I too do not want to give up on naturism, in spite of a spouse who can't handle seeing me nude. Like you I'm not trying to force someone else into doing something they arn't comfortable with. One thing I'm doing is telling more people about my lifestyle, not because I want them to see me, but because I want them to know that in the right situation they could. This time of year it's a little hard for me to get any quality nude time, upper midwest, winter is not a good time of year for doing very many things nude. When the weather is warmer I can get by with a little more relaxed "dress code".
Well here I go again rambling on.

James: I was writing you an e-mail yesterday and got interupted, "poof" it was gone.

I posted the following on "netnude.com":

My wife thinks I'm being brainwashed everytime I start to read the latest issue of the "FigLeaf Forum"! She is not interested in being nude, unless she and I are alone, and she is interested in sex. She can't get over the nudity doesn't = sex thing. She, like me, was brought up in a fundamental christian home, and feels that nudity is wrong unless it's between a husband and wife. Although I also grew up in a fundamental christian home, I was always interested in nudity, and was nude whenever I was able. I now feel that nudity is a "christian liberty" that God has given me to enjoy. My wife doesn't understand that, but in the last few months she is starting to show signs of "stress cracks" in her views!!!

We have one child, a teenage girl, and my wife doesn't want me to be nude around her, so I respect her view, and will only be nude at home when our daughter is asleep in bed, or gone for the night at a friends house. I figure that if I am ever able to get my wife to join me, I will need to let her learn about it on her schedule, not mine, so I will not push her too hard, and will respect her views.

The bad thing about my wife not being interested is that the local landed club near Cleveland will have nothing to do with me, as a "married single" male. There is a non-landed club that has swims every other week in my area, but they are on Saturday nights, and that's a family night for us, so those are hard to get to.

Thats my story, and I'm sticking to it!

Rob

"It's a Jeep thing...you wouldn't understand!"

Rob,
Even though I don't have these issues, I can say I feel your frustration. I do have frustrations in life that drive me nutty, but, like you, try to take them in stride.

The problem now lies in that if (and can we hope, "when"?) your wife does decide that naturism is the way, your daughter will have already been programmed as a clothist and may have nothing to do with it, even if your wife joins you.



Boyd Allen
"May the Lord protect our nudity from the sight of those who will not benefit, and may he allow us to be seen by those who will."