A Dissapointing conversation

[Tattoo Bradley]

Keep your chin up buddy. A lot of guys on here (myself included) have had resistence from the Mrs. My story sounds a lot like yours. She made the statement "it would be like me wanting to wear a ballroom gown out and about..." Um, no. I explained to her it was not the same, and that I wouldn't be wearing a Prince Charlie and bowtie out and about. She's still not thrilled about the heavy kilting. (I can't full time due to safety reasons at work.) In fact, I think she would rather I forget all this "kilt nonsense" and go back to trousers. I've been known to get really into something and then lose interst as quickly as I found it. Sort of flashes in the pan so-to-speak. But, she knows how adiment I am about my heritage. So, if she hasn't figured it out yet, she will: the kilts are here to stay. After some jokes and negative comments, I simply told her that if she was going to act that way to just keep quiet. She agreed and requested me to not talk to her about the new tartan I found, or a "great" sporran I ran across. Fair enough. She'll come around. She always does. I can't speak for your fiance. But, this has worked me and my Mrs.

Oh, and she's known as "... married to the tattooed guy who wears the KILT..." I'm not sure what her displacement is on that.

[slohairt]

Dia Dhuit!

Ah, women...what can you do? She'll come around if it's that important to you. My wife was a bit sceptical at first, until she saw me wearing it casually. She did, however, grow tired about hearing about all things kilted some time ago!

P.S. Perhaps you could draw an analogy to the times when women first started wearing trousers. I'm sure many men didn't want to be out and about with their trousered wife!

[Captain]

After some jokes and negative comments, I simply told her that if she was going to act that way to just keep quiet.

I finally had to have this talk (quietly and in private) with my wife after shopping at Kohl's with her... Two very nice older ladies came up while we were checking out and asked very politely if I was coming from or going to some kind of performance. I told them no, that I'm just proud of being Scottish and Irish and that kilts are infinitely comfortable. They asked if I was cold, and we talked about them being cold in skirts and how it's the same for me, except I get the option of nice, knee-high wool (or in my case wool-blend) socks... All the while the wife keeps trying to interject snide remarks:

Me: "I wear kilts because I'm proud of my Scottish and Irish heritage and also because they're comfortable..."

Wife: "Oh he just wears them to stick out, he doesn't like being normal..."

Mostly I just ignored her (as did the two women) while we had our conversation... Later I asked her very nicely not to comment to other people about the kilt if she's not going to say something nice, especially if they are asking me about it... Luckily she agreed and even apologized...