New Family: now naked!

[emmabovary]

In the Big News Department: JM is taking me to meet his parents in June.

Of course I'm kind of nervous about this--I really really really want them to like me--but JM assures me they already like me. (I think they love their son so much that they would love anyone he loves.) But you know, it's his parents.I'm really curious to see how he

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[morganaus]

Well, that was an unexpected curve ball, ha! That makes them way more interesting, in my opinion, and it also seems like they are more accepting on some level. Just a few days ago, I was reminiscing on how family all kissed each other on the mouth and my mom walked around nude--full bush and all--all the time. It was just natural, and I'm glad to have experienced that. It gave me a good template for how I want to live my life--free and accepting. Now if only my poor body image would cooperate and just accept my pooch...:\

[emmabovary]

I'm quite intrigued about the nudism thing. They don't practice this anymore--they are quite old now--but this subject is one I go back to again and again with JM. It just seems so....bohemian! (His parents were anything but hippies--dad was a dentist, mom was a math professor. Not your prototypical nudists, at least in my mind.)

Remember when you participated in that "nude in"? I do!

I told JM that I wouldn't be opposed to going to a nude beach post-tummy tuck. In fact I think it would be a terrific exercise in body-positivity. But he now has had a couple of bad melanomas (see: growing up naked in a hot climate) and cannot be in the sun. Oh well. He can just watch me, I guess. ;-)

[morganaus]

Interesting, that's so...European. I would also consider it bohemian, but I think in a lot of Europe, that's just how it is. Look at the beaches in some of these countries and it's all body types, with zero self consciousness. Bliss.

Ha, which one?! I do. ;) It was very liberating, even though I was self conscious of my pooch. But there were so many body types there, it was freeing. No airbrushing, there!

I would probably not go to a nude beach, due to my family history (on both sides) of fatal melanoma--and my proclivity to burn to a crisp--but I would certainly people watch. I would do other things nude (again), if I could be protected from the elements.

I say do it, and flaunt that bod. Life is short, tempus fugit, gather ye rosebuds, etc!

[jette]

As a Finn I'm always weirded out by the thought that you'd have to be nude on purpose.

I can't remember how old your bf is, but he's so cute that your thing gives me hope.

[emmabovary]

He's not that young but he looks young. (Uses good skincare products. They do make a difference.)

I will always be grateful to your advice: "Date like a man." This was crucial to my reconstruction last year, seriously. One of my best friend's husband just up and left her after 30 years of marriage. Their kids are launched and they were setting up their retirement plans when he announced he no longer had feelings for her. I spend a lot of time with her right now because she's on the ledge. When she is ready to start going out, I'm going to share that piece of wisdom with her. She deserves to feel fierce and sexy.