Jonathan, I wanted to say the same thing, but I hesitated; so, you beat me to it.  😁

When an adult child moves back in, it should be a given that he or she is acutely aware of house rules at the very least. Now, Steven and Janet may or may not have been naturists when he was growing up; but he knows now, as they said above, so unless there are extenuating circumstances they have not or cannot share with us, my outlook on it would be that he's just going to have to warm up to the new normal.  Who knows...after a couple of days he may decide to join in the comfort zone.  That would be nice. The worst that could happen is if they give up the lifestyle for the sake of keeping the peace. That would be sad.

I went back through this topic as it featured among the top ones displayed on the first page and thought about sharing this experience I did a while back and am doing again almost systematically.

It's always difficult to be among textiles in a place you feel you could be naked. One of those is when friends come home and they don't know you're a naturist. I decided that I would not let my joy and comfort of nudism hold me back anymore, as I don't feel I have anything to loose with friends and family. Following my experience last year in Spain (https://anaturistworld.com/blog/46363), I decided that I would therefore now ask friends and family is they're comfortable me being naked as I'm a naturist and am more comfortable naked. I did this a few weeks ago with friends who came home for a barbecue in a beautiful sunny day. I was wearing shorts and t-shirt when they arrived and as we moved next to the pool to have a drink, I found the courage to ask if they were OK for me being naked to enjoy the sun. They shrugged they shoulders, told they were sometimes going to the nude beach so naturism was OK for them. And voilà. Shorts and t-shirt disappeared and I could spend the whole day naked, while they remained clothed. We had a great time and talked about naturism and took note to find a weekend to go to the nude beach together

This simple question had three amazing effects:
1- To reinforce my courage to ask.
2- To be able to expand my naturism with friends who now know that I am naked when home.
3- To increase the number of naturist friends (although they did not get naked when at home, but that may come later).

So, we're more often that not only a question away from enjoying naturism with textile friends and family. It's awkward at the beginning and gorgeous in the end! Then being naked while others are clothed become natural up to a point you don't think about it anymore. Food for thought!

SamD50 said:

Jonathan, I wanted to say the same thing, but I hesitated; so, you beat me to it.  😁

When an adult child moves back in, it should be a given that he or she is acutely aware of house rules at the very least. Now, Steven and Janet may or may not have been naturists when he was growing up; but he knows now, as they said above, so unless there are extenuating circumstances they have not or cannot share with us, my outlook on it would be that he's just going to have to warm up to the new normal.  Who knows...after a couple of days he may decide to join in the comfort zone.  That would be nice. The worst that could happen is if they give up the lifestyle for the sake of keeping the peace. That would be sad.

Have not given up on the life style and he has accepted my being naked although I can not see him joining me any time soon.

Thanks for that update, S&J C; it's good news so far. In fact to my way of thinking, it's the best part. An individual's personal choice is always (should always be) their prerogative, with no undue pressure. But acceptance of your choice is something that bridges personalities and relationships and it has more meaning.

I’m nearly always nude when at home, I do have the benefit of living on my own so it’s a lot easier to be nude and free

Unfortuntely I wasn’t brought up in a nudist household, and haven’t been nude in front of family yet, I’m sure I will at some point they all know I’m very open about everything 

Happy to be nude amongst friends and neighbours, both my neighbours know I’m a naturist and have no problems with me being nude in the garden 

As for strangers absolutely no issues with being nude in front of them

I have nudist signs on my gate and front door so anyone who knocks can’t be surprised to find me naked, been nude whilst having tradesmen round and they have never been bothered and just chat as usual