That IS a great deal of progress. You shall have a private backyard and ability to sun and enjoy yourself without restriction or contempt.
She is getting better acceptance or more used to your nudity than before.
You’ll be able to meet at say an Abbyhouse Gardens, or some other activity, without feeling the need to sneak away. Making an honest non-secret naturist of you.
She might join you in a Jacuzzi experience, if you had one! I’m sure that that would lead to a more relaxed attitude.
In the early 90’s, I had a boss, a middle aged nurse, who one day while shooting the breeze around the office chuckled, “When he’s home, I just can’t keep clothes on my husband.” She thought it cute eccentric, but no big deal anymore, an entertaining story. He had worn her down to accepting it as too harmless to fight it, but, “oh no, not me.”
In the seventies, I went down to Baja Spa, a Jacuzzi style fiberglass hot tub manufacturer. I bought a second at a fraction of the price. It had a small bump in the wall, not perfect. They were glad to get rid of it. When it was filled with water, it was undetectable. I forgot where the flaw was.
I bought a heavy-duty pool heater, one that was designed for a 20x40 ft. pool, so that it would heat up quickly. That and a good 2 ½ hp pump, with filter, were all acquired at contractor rates through a friend. The plumbing was pretty simple, I go some help from the friend doing the gas hookup. That, with a few six-packs and a pickup truck and we carried the tub into the backyard. It just sat there exposed for a year, but was used nearly nightly, eventually, maybe a hundred naked friends. It was very easy to talk people into a hot tub, especially after the bars closed. That was a very social year.
After that, I bought a new house and we all moved it again. This time I buried it somewhat and sat volcanic rock around it, brick patio, etc. It went with the house 17 years later. I got more than my money’s worth the first year, especially since the cost was maybe 25 percent of just purchasing one.
I have seen more portable $3000, or $4000 tubs sell on Craig’s List for a grand or so. Then hire a crane and crew.
Mine was circular, 7ft. diameter and I arranged the jets perfectly for massaging different areas of the body say neck or lower spine. I also put them to make a sort of vortex spinning the water around. In the hot day, I’d place a rubber pool raft in it. The raft would rotate in the sun so that I could roticerate while sun bathing and the water kept me cool. The 625 gallons of water would heat up in about 40 minutes for a hot tub with the flick of a thermostat switch.
