Anyone's spouse/significant other vehemently opposed to you kilting?

[James Hood]

Has / does anyone have the experience of your spouse / significant other being vehemently opposed to your owning / wearing the kilt?

Just asking....

[TheBrus]

Mine has a problem with it. She says she doesn't like having attention attracted to ourselves. It has caused some disagreements in the past/present.

[george7]

My wife knew what she was getting in to. I knew her 10 years before we were married. I know one thing... happy wife, happy life.

[Mike in Dayton]

My now ex-wife did. She went ballistic when I was looking to get my first kilt. Divorce attorney took care of that problem.

Mike

[tulloch]

Oohhh, tough subject. What do you do if your spouse objects to that kilt / tattoo / boat / shotgun you absolutely have to get? My prior wife would have just put her foot down about kilts and I never would have developed this wonderful part of my life. I would not be playing pipes. I would have a great void in me. Might have led to a divorce. The first time I made her cry I was about to go out wearing my grandfather's tartan jacket. Fought. Tears. Only going to the library at school! Back in the closet for another decade & half. Outlived that part of my life. I would have - DID - accede to her needs. But if I had found a band ... taken up the pipes - well you can't play the pipes in pants.

[privypiper2002]

My wife was a highland dancer back in the day. The only issue she had was when I was going out to pipe a gig one night and as I was walking out in my highland finery she reached under my kilt and took hold of my... "complete attention" and stated, "Scotland is free, you are not! Put on some underpants." That was about the extent of my kilt wearing troubles.

[Geoff Withnell]

My wife was a highland dancer back in the day. The only issue she had was when I was going out to pipe a gig one night and as I was walking out in my highland finery she reached under my kilt and took hold of my... "complete attention" and stated, "Scotland is free, you are not! Put on some underpants." That was about the extent of my kilt wearing troubles.

Michele agrees. But people asking about it are probably the main issue she has with kilt wearing - "The Question". But I am a fortunate man, that she loves how I look.

[Dale Seago]

My ex-wife really disliked it, generally made disparaging remarks if I was about to wear it to anything but a Scottish event.

My girlfriend really likes me in a kilt, though lately she has been making a point of asking for a little "p@nts time" now and then. I'm fine with that.

[BuchananBiker]

My wife was a highland dancer back in the day. The only issue she had was when I was going out to pipe a gig one night and as I was walking out in my highland finery she reached under my kilt and took hold of my... "complete attention" and stated, "Scotland is free, you are not! Put on some underpants." That was about the extent of my kilt wearing troubles.

Ha ha ha ha, snort, ha ha!
Your wife is awesome. That's the funniest thing I've read in days.

[seanachie]

My wife is Chinese, born in El Paso but her mother was born in China and her paternal grandparents immigrated from China to grow produce along the Rio Grand. As a point of pride, not arrogance, she points out so many things that existed in China well before they were introduced in China. She read the article that a member either wrote or linked here some time ago that discussed tartan being discovered in western China that was 3,000 years old. So it has become a joke about tartan being more Sino than Celtic. Hence, no issues with the kilt and I have worn one all over China on vacation fall 2010.