Well, I've had the same problem but in reverse. My wife's son has fallen onhard times. He's in his 40s and works in the building trades. An electrician licensed for residental only and the market fell out three years ago. So eventually he lost his mortage and needed a place to stay.
We have a modest, ranch style home with a detached garage and a crawl space. Four bedrooms, but one is now the computer room. So he completely redid a bedroom for himself and has found ways to to store stuff. Because of my poor health problems he's done all the work by himself needed to move in. He shovels the driveway in the winter, mowed the lawn when needed and does the yard work my wife wants done. Since I can no longer do any of this type of work around the house I leave it t the two of them.
But he's is very...restricted in his view of things. When he see's me in a kilt he calls it a skirt and sounds very negative when he says it.
This is someone who will NOT watch any TV or movies in black and white. It has to be in color. He doesn't understand why evryone doesn't like the same things he like to watch for TV or movies or eat the same foods he likes or drink the same drinks he likes. He is a gung-ho man's man with something to prove all the time. And he brought his big German Shephard with him, so now we have three big dogs in a modest sized house and backyard. Actually the dog isn't that much of a problem, he gets along with our Golden Retreiver and out elderly, female lab.
It's just that I don't know when he'll be home and when he'll stay for dinner and when he'll hang around the house during the day. He's going to school and does "side jobs" for cash.
He's known about my skirt and kilt wearing since my wife and I were married, 25 years ago. But it was never really out in the open until he moved out after high school. So he wasn't adjusted to it on a regular basis.
Every year I curtail skirts and kilts during the winter, because of my health problems. Getting an added chill on my lower body only adds to the problem of my recurring bronchitis and pmeumonia problems. I usually wait until a few warm days and break out a kilt first, around now, and then add my skirts later.
But this year I find myself totally reluctant to begin my spring/summe/fall MIS-MIK tradition. Our town and the general area we live in in IS NOT male skirt friendly to begin with. And my step-son being here just make it harder for me to emotionally gear myself up right now.
I now that most of you wlll just say "go ahead and do it" but that takes a lot of personal courage for me. It always has. Nothing bad has ever happened over my kilts or skirts. It's just my personal paranoia I carry with me from wy back in my childhood. It's really hard to deal with at times.
I know there's no real solution here, except whatever I can come with. I hope to resolve this soon so I can begin skirting again.
DALederle
