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I have been married for more than four decades, and my lovely wife and I have had many wonderful experiences and memories.

When we were younger, we had lots of pool parties and attended other similar functions at other folks homes, and often the parties ended up with everyone undressed, usually nude.

On two separate occasions, similar events occurred that I still do not fully understand. First, one afternoon we had several couples swimming at our home. The pool had a 6 foot fence, and everyone was nude enjoying a sunny day, although one or two of the girls kept their bikini bottoms on. My wife was in her early twenties, and went inside to get dressed to go shopping for groceries for dinner. My college roommate and I went into the house and startled my wife who was in a black garter belt, stockings, heels and her bra. She let out a yell,and cowered, covering her pussy. Remember, she had been completely nude only ten minutes earlier outdoors. Later, I asked her why the reaction and she said she didn't mind being seen nude, but didn't like being seen undressed. Does that make sense?

Another time, we were getting ready for a wedding, staying at a friends home where everyone had gone skinnydipping the night before, and had relaxed watching TV later. She and I were getting dressed upstairs and our host and another friend came up and caught my wife walking from the bath at the end of the hall back to our bedroom. Again, she had on her stockings and heels and a white garter belt----a very normal and accepted outfit before pantyhose, and she freaked out, cowering in the hall covering her nakedness with her hands. Again, this is an attractive, shapely, married woman who has never been overly modest even before we got married. I still remember when we were dating, she would stay at my apartment and walk around my roommates and friends in a see-through baby doll at night, and even answered the door one Friday in the nude when she knew it was just the paperboy, who she thought was cute and was always taking peeks at her whenever he came to our apartment. She stayed behind the door but he got some good peeks. On another occasion, she was getting dressed to go out and she got a phone call. She came out in front of some of my friends wearing a towel, but it came to just below her crotch, and her garters and stockings were in clear sight. It was very sexy, and I am sure she didn't have anything else on.

On another occasion when one of her sisters was getting married in front of an old plantation house, all the ladies in the wedding party were getting dressed in the back bedroom. She called me to tell me that several of the boys who were children of guests had been seen peeking at them. She asked me to chase them away. Most were only 15 or a bit younger, but I remembered being curious then, too. One of the problems was that the bedroom and the bath were about 10 feet apart, and the undressed ladies were having to walk through this hall that had two sets of sliding glass doors without d****s on the opposite wall. A friend and I stood guard for a while, but the boys could still hide behind the cars and see the women walk from the bath to the bedroom and back. Most just wore their underwear, and the boys would not go away. My wife came out, in a white bra and bikini panties and whispered a suggestion to me. I walked out to where the boys were, and told them that they would get one free look, then had to go away. They agreed, and I went back and knocked on the bathroom door. My wife came out nude, faced the boys for maybe 30 seconds, and you could see her hands as she fought to keep them from covering her breasts and pussy, and how she sqeezed her thighs together, then she ran back in the bath and got dressed. Later, she told me she came standing in the doorway, seeing the boys expressions. We still talk about it and other adventures.

Given all that, why would she be so shy when partially dressed? Got any ideas?