Well, darn. I clicked on this piece which was labeled “How To See Bald As Beautiful” in the hope that I might get some tips on how to encourage my husband to stop with the comb-over and accept his beautiful head.

He really looks wonderful when his hair is natural, but my thinking that and telling him so doesn’t work. He says it’s okay for me to like it, but he doesn’t like his baldness and he’ll continue to do the comb-over until he changes his attitude. We’ve been married nearly twenty years and at this point my hopes aren’t real high.

He has been doing it since his twenties, so when I fell for him ten years later my eyes were wide open. I guess I thought he’d become more comfortable over time, but he hasn’t. When I lost my own yard-long hair two years ago to chemotherapy, I hoped he might do the “solidarity in baldness” thing and cut off the comb-over, but he didn’t.

To me, comb-overs scream,”I’m delusional!” and at best make the men who employ them look vain and foolish, regardless of how very un-vain or un-foolish they may be in every other area of their lives.

Ideas? Anyone?

excellent advice both, though my own p.o.v. might be the exception. I’m a male, and probably more self-conscious about appearance than most. But along the lines of Daniel’s comment that: “All you can reasonably expect is that your husband does the best he can with what he’s got, by staying in prime physical shape and otherwise trying to look good.” I would like to know if my partner had some objection to how I was coming across. As long as it’s coming from a place of love (and hopefully with a good amount of tact and timing) I wouldn’t mind her suggesting something like hair implants, esp. if she thought I was the type of person who’d consider it.
Again, it would come down to timing - maybe if we were both cuddling or blissfully relaxed; or maybe when there’d be an ad on the TV or Magazine - that could be a good time as well.
It’s tricky, and probably not for everybody - but I’d want to know (especially since I’d probably be sensitive enough to pick up that there was something slightly turning her off).