My Return to Being Nude

Venturing back in time to when I was about 11 or 12 years old... A few years earlier, my brother, sister, and I moved in with my grandparents. This happened because my mom wasn't able to properly care for us and we were just days shy of becoming wards of the state. My grandmother saw the letter from the county, called my grandfather, and we left that day to live with them for the next six years. One day I stated snooping around my grandparents bedroom and discovered my grandfathers stash of adult magazines. As I looked through them, I noticed how relaxed the people in the photos looked being naked. I decided to see how comfortable it was and quickly discovered how comfortable I felt being naked. Every chance after that, I chose to be naked when I felt I could without being caught. My grandmother did catch me a couple of times but didn't get concerned or make a big deal about it, but I still didn't just run around the house naked. I kept it to myself as much as possible. When I was about 14, my grandmother was diagnosed with colon cancer. She beat it (not once, but twice and is still living today). My mother had gotten her life together and was now able to support us and we moved back in with her. I kept practicing nudism in my room whenever I could...which wasn't too often. As a young adult and on my own, I would occasionally be nude at home and sleeping nude all the time. When I did venture outside, it was under the blanket of darkness so no one would be able to see me. I found this to be not only exhilarating but also very refreshing. The feeling of the cool night time air against my skin was amazing! Over the next ten years, give or take, my living situation changed so I wasn't able to enjoy my nudity as much and quite often not at all. I had roommates who weren't into being naked and I didn't ask them if it was OK for me to be...I just didn't go there and abstained from being nude all together. Now I find myself in my mid-30s. I met the woman who became my first wife. Early on in the marriage we enjoyed occasionally being naked together at home, about once or twice a week. That lasted for about the first year and a half. Then quickly dwindled to virtually non-existent for her and only sleeping in the nude for me. After nine years, I came to realize how poisonous the marriage was to me. It was poisonous to me emotionally, mentally, and physically. I won't get into the emotional and mental aspects but the physical was primarily because in those nine years, I put on over 100 lbs (45+ kg). I decided to end the marriage and try to regain and restore who I was. Shortly after the divorce, I met the woman who would become my second wife. What a dramatic and refreshing change to encounter a woman who was honest, trustful, loving, and truly encouraging! Within about an hour and a half after we first met, it felt like we had known each other our entire lives! That is such an incredible feeling. When her children would be with their biological dad, she and I would sleep in the nude and occasionally hang around the house nude. On our honeymoon, we went camping. It was at a regular campground but inside our tent we were often naked and enjoying that freedom. We went camping a couple more times after that and did the same thing...be naked in our tent whenever possible. As the kids grew and they reached an age where they could decide for themselves if they wanted to spend their allotted weekends with their dad, they decided to not go. This changed our home nudist ventures, but I have no regrets about that. It was wonderful to have them home and watch them grow. Now both kids are off to college which gave me the opportunity to return to being a home nudist and I took advantage of it. Now, mind you, I didn't tell my wife that I was going to start up again and I just did it. The first time I stripped down to my birthday suit after work, she looked at me and asked what I was doing. I said that I was getting comfortable. The next several times I did it, she kind of laughed and shook her head, but I just kept on doing it. Now she sees it as something normal for me. The next two steps for me are: 1) to ease her into being comfortably naked and 2) finding places I can be outside and get naked. With her, I don't think I will have much of a problem once the weather warms up. She doesn't like the cold and gets chilled fairly easily...even when it's 72 degrees (22 C) in the house! Finding places to be naked, that's not going to be an easy task! We live in a very rural farming community with very few places to go with secluded areas. The nearest nudist resort, well, they're seasonal here in Minnesota and located about 3 and a half hours away at minimum! Since I love the comfort of being naked, I will have to enjoy it at home...for now.