Thanks for the tip Dawn, I have to say I'm still pretty chubby all over, but the rear end has quite a ways to go before it is, shall we say, hmmmm, "cute"? Lets put it this way, my skinny D commented not to long ago that she guess she got her big rear end and thighs from me...I think the poor kid is right.
I'm not going to wait for the inches, I'm working on it now, LOL. I do have a pair of Liz Claiborne lower waist jeans that I really like because they are surprisingly comfy. They are not as long as I'd like though...I know, I HATE "high waters"!
Don't know why I didnt compliment H, I did think it, obviously it was a huge mistake. I think you're probably right I was really down on myself and actually probably resented him, he does have a bod to die for. and I've always enjoyed looking at it. BIG BIG mistake not to let him know.
I guess probably a lot of it does come from the messages I got from my parents growing up, and certainly MIL steered me differently. H was actually getting kind of riled up this am, saying "she's never been right about anything yet, and you know that, so I'll never know why that's the advice you picked to listen to"
anyway, what a gift it might have been if anybody had ever said "put on some naughty undies and go after him and have fun doing it!" and "do it until he yells stop"...sure would have made life a lot more fun, and saved a lot of pain...not to mention time, lordy it's taken me 25 years to figure it out on my own.
Maybe I gave D a different message though, I actually gave her a couple of sexy nighties for her wedding shower....MIL was there, you should have heard her choke! ah, well