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Husband is not happy with the way I dress?

Alright so here is the deal. My husband looked at me a couple days ago and said 'You know honey you never dress up anymore. Your always in your riding clothes, it would be nice if you would wear something else.'

Okay so this is rather true I'm riding instructor, this is how I make money for our family. Now when we first got together I was riding instructor part time and I worked in a professional office full time. I made decent money and I spent a lot of that money on myself, my wardrobe for work, manicures pedicures all that kind of stuff. So when my husband and I bought a house moved out of the city into the country. I was given the option by him to either continue working a full time professional job or become a full time riding instructor, he really didn't want me doing both. So I chose riding instructor. Which meant cut backs no more expensive hair treatments no more mani pedis every 3 weeks. I think in some ways I perhaps embraced my country life a little too much.

Now I shower and I always wear clean clothes, but I don't have my nails done and I have really wild curly hair that instead of styling is always in a braid. (If not it gets tangled in everything and I walk around with half a head full of hay all day!) He use to find my riding clothes 'adorable' now I think he's a little sick of seeing them. I ride 7 days a week and I give lessons out of my home and at the local barn 5-6 days a week. When he's getting ready for work I'm already up dressed normally have already warmed up my horses and have fed our animals (in my riding clothes). So this is pretty much what he sees me in. I hate the idea of my husband being disappointed in the way I look. But I'm not sure what I can do to fix this, I mean I'm leaving for work at the same time he is and this is what I have to wear to work. Does anyone have any ideas? For my hair I still have to be able to put my helmet on and if it is down it becomes a rather wild mess. I look young enough as it is I don't need to be running around a professional barn with wild hair, I don't think the barn manager would be all that Pleased with me if I did!

I would really appreciate some insights in how I can solve this problem!

Update:

I shower every day after I'm done with lessons and have put all the animals to bed. Normally I then change into yoga pants and a tank because I do light yoga at night. My husband however does not get home until I am already in bed, now I was wearing cute little boxer t-shirt combos. Which I buy out of VS and love but after he said what he did I ran to town and spent about 3 hours picking out the sexiest yet still comfortable sleepwear I could find. He seems pleased with this but I don't know how to get around the riding clothes issue.

Oh and we go on a date night about every two weeks and I always make sure I look really nice. I think the issue is more he was use to seeing me in skirts an dress pants really nice very professional clothes nearly everyday for 5 years. And now well he sees me in mainly riding clothes.

Update 2:

Our house is pretty isolated with lots of trees maybe i could stay up late tonight and pull a Lady Godiva, our weather has been very warm lately for winter. Still would be could but maybe worth it. Perhaps that would help associate me riding with something sexy.

Update 3:

My husband works 4 10 hour days often works overtime. He leaves our home at 2pm we have an hour together before he leaves. I make him breakfast and we have a sit down meal together. He gets home late at night while I'm just about a sleep. We talk and will watch a movie (I normally fall asleep during). On my husbands three days off. One day I am home all day, the other two I only do lessons out of my home normally I'm done just as he's starting to wake up. We go riding together on his days off after he is up and about. It's our time to spend together just doing what we both love. We spend a lot of our free time together. I think you might be misunderstanding the circumstances of what is actually going. Maybe for four days a week we don't see much of each other there is really not much either of us can do about it.

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  • 8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    If you want your man to keep his eyes on you, you better step up!

  • 8 years ago

    You have a scheduling/marriage problem not a wardrobe problem. You see him briefly each morning and are in bed already when he gets home. With that pretty much what you wear is the only thing there is any time for. I think you need to change up your schedule(s) so you have several hours together most days not several minutes. If that means going back to office work then so be it.

    This isn't about work or clothes this is about your marriage.

    I would submit to you that you have let your marriage slip to the point where what you wear is the focus. That is not healthy. You both need to work together to find a solution that works better for a marriage because clearly riding 7 days a week and date once every 2 weeks isn't cutting it.

    You know how they say it's not about the cap on the toothpaste or the socks on the floor?

    Well it's not about what your wearing either.

  • 8 years ago

    when your instructing job is over and all the animals are fed and down for the evening, go home and put on a nice dress or top and comb or brush your hair and either eat together like this or sit with him in the evening with him and talk and then watch tv or play a board game.

    Then offer him the chance to take off all of your clothes.

    All he wants is to not see you wearing the same clothes all the time.

    Do not be lazy, give him a chance to see you wearing something different.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    you look like an exceedingly suitable woman, so i will comprehend your husband being jealous approximately you going out in an extremely short semi-see with the aid of costume, seamed tights n heels, it extremely is an exceedingly attractive, purely approximately tarty, outfit. Plus you're going out with yet another guy as his date to an journey that sounds like many different adult men would be there, so I anticipate you will get a lot of fellows interest. i think of those are the excuses your husband is disillusioned, so we are able to all see his element. even with the incontrovertible fact that, if he became into chuffed so you might circulate which includes your buddy, who sounds like purely a protracted term buddy, and he became into chuffed once you purchased the costume, then i will work out why you at present sense he's being slightly infantile and exhibiting a loss of have confidence. in case you do no longer placed on the costume then every time you circulate out in some thing hes no longer chuffed approximately, then this could be an argument. as quickly as he's acquainted with you had a reliable time and not something befell he would be advantageous and recover from his insecurities. So my suggestion... placed on THE costume! teach your self off because of the fact the attractive woman you're, delight in the attention, then come abode to hubby and have loving intercourse with him and tell him how lots you like him!

  • 8 years ago

    My Fiancee says the same thing to me, I think you're right you might have embraced country living, because it's relaxed and not soo stuffy, very easy to do. But I think you need to explain to him that you aren't in a professional field anymore, and you don't have the money to be spending it on that. But I will agree that every once in a while is nice, it's something refreshing for your husband and at the same time it makes you feel sexier to dress up. Always does with me.

    Source(s): Best Of Luck :)
  • 8 years ago

    You need to do something to sex up these horse riding clothes. Not when you're going to work obviously, but if you can somehow make him associate these outfits with something sexy, he will never see them the same. You could try something like the link in the source or put your own twist on it with what you've got.

  • fizixx
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    I like the idea of dressing up now and then. Get all fixed up and even if you stay home and eat in, maybe it will spice things up some.

    He has to be understanding of this situation, it's not like you can magically change clothes at the drop of a hat.

    Aside from dressing UP now and then, he has to meet you half way and be understanding of the situation and lifestyle......that's fair.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Dress up on date night. And, oh, have regular date nights! :)

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