There's a lot to get used to when you first start riding. The saddle issues are the most obvious. First, it hurts, like a muscle you haven't used in a while. You get sore and it feels like a bruise on the part of your ass you never think about, until you get back on the bike the second day.
Keep riding. Your ass will not be damaged by this, the same way your quads are not damaged after a run. Do you ever get that? You haven't run in months and you think, "I'll go for a short run. It's time I got back into it." And so you run and the next two days you wake up to sore quads. It's the same for your butt and cycling. It's OK.
Now, if you do this for weeks, for hours at times, the next saddle issue to pop up is rarely discussed out loud. There are reasons for this; I'm not going into detail here, but there are chamois creams made for these issues. It's like a right of passage. It's OK, people! Embrace it. Master this last hurdle and you will never turn back.
