Get an impartial view on your home nudity

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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I’m a “naturist,” or nudist, like other people who have written you. When I’m at home I’m always clothing-free with the sun streaming through my windows. I pretend I live in the tropics. My new living-room and dining room-curtains start halfway down the big windows, to allow in the light.

I love that I can walk around naked in the daytime — just my head and shoulders showing while still basking in the light — without upsetting my new neighbours.

My fussbudget sister was over one night recently to help me with some odd jobs. When she came in she told me, “Those half-drapes aren’t enough, bro!” So we did an experiment and she walked around inside while I was outside looking in. I couldn’t see anything but her head and shoulders above the half curtains from outside. Does she feel like she has to lie to protect me?

— Unashamed, Fort Richmond

Dear Unashamed: Friends and relatives have been known to lie when they’re embarrassed about close ones doing things they think unseemly and that could get them in trouble.

So, invite a friend over who doesn’t disapprove of nudism, and repeat the experiment. Believe me, you really don’t want the neighbours seeing you naked through your front windows.

Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I like to lie in bed and hum songs while reading magazines. I also kick my legs in bed when I’m asleep. My husband hates all this stuff.

He didn’t complain about my bedtime habits when we were dating or exhausted young marrieds, with more kids coming along every year or so!

Now we have a houseful of growing kids who often wake us or jump in with us when they’re restless, can’t sleep or are scared. Please help me talk to my husband!

— Tired Wife and Mom, St. James

Dear Tired: The best news? You can likely control your kicking problem. Part of it may very likely be restless legs syndrome (a.k.a. Willis–Ekbom disease), so see your doctor because there’s a medication you can take for it. And wouldn’t it be great not to have you rocking the boat with your kicking?

As for the humming and magazines habits, do that with the kids after supper. Then maybe later, your husband would like to hold you and make love with you, when the kids are happily settled in their own beds.

P.S.: My own mom Cynthia had lots of kids. She used to get up in the middle of the night to eat a tasty snack and read magazines, then she’d go back to bed after enjoying some precious privacy. Take a tip from Cyn!

Please send your questions and comments to lovecoach@hotmail.com or Miss Lonelyhearts c/o the Winnipeg Free Press, 1355 Mountain Ave., Winnipeg, MB, R2X 3B6.

Maureen Scurfield
Advice columnist

Maureen Scurfield writes the Miss Lonelyhearts advice column.

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