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Just walked in on my husband standing stark naked in front of his mother

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Sportgh · 24/12/2017 13:17

Just walked in on my 34 year old husband brushing his hair having come out of the shower and his mother was standing there talking to him. He was STARK NAKED. That's so weird isn't it? I told him it was weird and said I wouldn't stand naked in front of my dad and he kind of conceded. I'm freaked out. AIBU?

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cathyclown · 24/12/2017 21:55

Was he tumescent in front of mother?

OMG you see where all this can lead.

It is just too weird for me anyway. Never would happen here ever. But that's life. Nordic people are far more comfortable with nakedness in the sauna and so on.

Interesting thread just the same. For the right reasons now!

Clitoria · 24/12/2017 21:57

So weird the competitive breeziness on this thread, I bet if any of you had actually see a man standing with his dick at his ma’s eye level during a chat you would think it was at best, WEIRD. Because it is.
(They’re not Finnish, they’re not sitting in a sauna, they’re not medical staff, they’re not whatever other excuses are being reached for)

Solina · 24/12/2017 21:58

This is so very british. A naked body is the most natural thing and I wouldnt think anything if I saw any of my family naked or if they saw me naked.
I am from a nordic country though and I do feel british people are weird when it comes to being naked.

It starts from so young here, back home small children are naked during summer at beach swimming which is normal and little girls would definitely not wear top half of a bikini as why would they need it when little boys dont wear it either? Its so weird and so very British!

Grammarist · 24/12/2017 22:05

Not competitive breezing as! I just can't see an issue. It's just a body. We all have them. No big deal.

expatinscotland · 24/12/2017 22:07

It's just a body! But okay, not British, but not German or Scandi and not a medic.

expatinscotland · 24/12/2017 22:11

Saying that, I had a medic ex-bf who was far more shy about nudity than I was, until he got his freak on Grin. He was a dirty ride.

Thekitten · 24/12/2017 22:30

I don't think it's weird at all.. some families don't have hang ups about nudity, probably a very healthy attitude to have! At 33 the only reason my mum hasn't seen me naked for the last several years is cause of the tattoo and piercings she'd disapprove of.
I also held a full on conversation with a lady in a Finnish hotel's showers, while she got undressed and walked into the sauna starkers.
Admittedly we're all women in these scenarios, but I don't think it's all that different between mothers and sons. The mother has seen everything of her son already, and if the son is comfortable with it then shrug I dunno about the other way cause although my dad deffo changed my nappies, he was never as comfortable walking in the nudd around us as my mum was and so we took our lead from him. If he was more comfortable, I'd probably shrug about nudity that way too.

ItsNachoCheese · 24/12/2017 22:35

Thats just wrong 😷

expatinscotland · 24/12/2017 22:42

'I also held a full on conversation with a lady in a Finnish hotel's showers, while she got undressed and walked into the sauna starkers. '

Who bloody wears clothes in a Finnish sauna?

FlashTheSloth · 24/12/2017 22:46

Why was his mum in his bedroom?

Why would it be his bedroom not bith of yours?

Bit odd this one.

DorisDangleberry · 24/12/2017 23:00

I guess it depends. Did he have a stonking erection? Or was his mum examining some sores on his bellend? Because either of those would be weird. Ortherwise it sounds like you are typically English, middle class and uptight.

Aeroflotgirl · 24/12/2017 23:52

It is bloody weird, this is not a sauna, or shower, or op dh rushing out of the shower to grab a towel. She might have seen him as a little boy, he's a man now, with a bit more to show. If that were my son, I would tell him to out something on. Same if it was a father and daughter. Bodies are natural real, but as well as being functional, genitsls are also sexual, it is just so innapropriate. It's not tge same was a nose, or a leg.

Thekitten · 25/12/2017 00:23

Expatinscotland - didn't really know how to explain but she was stripping off before going into the sauna that was part of the hotel. While I know you don't go into the showers or sauna with clothes on, I wasn't expecting her to start stripping while we were talking. Which is more the point I was getting at.
I can't really explain the room but there wasn't a proper changing area and the showers were shared with open cubicles. I thought she'd finish the conversation before getting undressed, but nope. My 22 year old self: Blush

RestingGrinchFace · 25/12/2017 00:26

Surely it's more weird how freaked out everyone is by this. People get baked in front of perfect strangers all the time at the gym and what not. Carrying on the conversation while getting dressed isn't that weird. Do none of you ever invite a family member that chat with you while taking a bath?

Aeroflotgirl · 25/12/2017 00:51

No I do nt resting, that's private to me. We keep telling children, our privates, are private, as Per the NSPCC campaign, yet we're OK with and perfectly natural to have our intimate parts of our body on show.

SandyY2K · 25/12/2017 00:59

Weird. Definitely.

LemonysSnicket · 25/12/2017 01:12

It’s his mum?
My mum applies my steroid cream to my back/arse when DP isn’t around. I have to be nude for that? She literally pushed me out of her vagina , she made the body you think it’s weird she can see.
If he was windmilling his penis I’d get your point but ... it’s not conservative, it’s not vile LTB incest ...

Aeroflotgirl · 25/12/2017 01:19

That is different Lemony, it's bloody weird for op dp to be talking to his mum in the buff, and shows a lack of boundaries between them. He told you it would be weird if you stood there talking to yiur dad in the buff.

MistressDeeCee · 25/12/2017 09:06

Maybe they don't have hang ups about nudity in their family. Not everyone does. UK is so strange to me - all forms of media go on about sex 24/7 in one form or another - then it's all prudishness about nudity?!

I'd not be worried unless there was weird conversation or touching.

Aeroflotgirl · 25/12/2017 12:18

The phrase, having Hang ups regarding nudity, implies that it is wrong to feel private about nudity, which is not right. Some people want to be private which is fine, some people are not which is also fine. But the scenario in the op is just weird.

Natsku · 25/12/2017 14:30

I thought she'd finish the conversation before getting undressed, but nope

Yeah that's not really going to cross the mind of the average Finnish women - why wait to finish the conversation when you can just carry on with it while getting undressed and save time? Grin

As to the OP - I am very chill with nudity, live in Finland where we all love our naked saunas, but once you get past childhood familial nudity is usually sex-segregated so a grown man being naked in front of his mum does seem weird to me. If it was his dad then I wouldn't think twice about it, or a women with her mum, but not when it's the opposite sex parent, that's rather out of the norm. But some families are just more relaxed about nudity, so while it would weird me out I'd try not to judge it.

Notevilstepmother · 25/12/2017 14:35

She wiped his bum, cleaned his vomit and pushed him out of her vagina.

This. And changed his nappies. Its his mum ffs.

Aeroflotgirl · 25/12/2017 15:06

Body hell hes a fully grown adult now, not a young child. If my adult ds did this, despite cleaning up his vomit, birthing him yadda yadda, I wou,d tell him to put something on.

Lazylouse · 25/12/2017 15:14

I don't understand why people expect the British to have Nordic attitudes to nudity. Surely in the UK it is pretty rare for adult sons to be nude in front of their parents.

Reddlion · 25/12/2017 15:19

Lol random

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