DH is growing a beard

[NickNemo]

It looks terrible, all big and bushy and ginger and Viking like!! Yuck! He knows my objections, but is putting them down to 'time of the month' and 'you'll get used to it, dear!'!

He still expects me to be hair free though.

Will IBU to stop all my daily/ weekly (waxing body, brazilian, shaving underarms, waxing face and eyebrows) hair removing routines in protest until he shaves his face? Mind, I am very hairy naturally.

Personally I love beards but that's my taste. If DH had said 'you'll get used to it dear' he'd be attacked with the clippers next time he fell asleep/got drunk. Very patronising of him.
Cease all personal hair removal forthwith and for the duration of hair-stilities

'hair-stilities'

YANBU to consider withdrawing all defuzzing of your own!

YANBU at all.

Dh has grown a moustache for november to raise money for cancer research, it is beyond hideous, I can't bear to look at him. I am counting the days until it comes off.

If it was a permanent fixture, he would be looking for somewhere else to live.

Do whatever it takes to get him to shave it off.

Midlife crisis. Its the only explanation.

It hits us all. Personally, I've been working through mine by posting on MN.

Refuse any physical contact for a couple of weeks - he will come round to the idea of shaving it off.

I made my dh grow a beard, mainly because I was bored and wanted to see what it would look like.

I think he looks better with it. He has had it about 4 months now, and has bought a beard trimmer and everything. But then, he never was good at shaving everyday, so he looks better this way.

Midlife crisis, my backside! He's just doing it because someone told him it looked macho! If I wanted macho, I would have married Arnie Schwarzenegger.

What is it with men and beards anyways!!

X posted Lola, you're lucky. Mine just looks like he's escaped from a zoo

Tell him "no shave-y, no sex-y".
Hate the look of them, let alone what they must feel like. Bleurgh.

NO NO NO!

No sex, surely? Or shaving/waxing from you until he relents.

Beard are unforgiveable.

Dh did this last winter, the full captain haddock beard, it was horrid.
He was just being lazy, leaves the house 5.30am and worked out that if he didn't shave it gave him 10 mins longer in bed.
He was made redundant and finally adnitted that the beard added 10-15 years, and looked like he had just given up.
So new year new job and no beard so far.

Beards and moustaches are cool. And manly.
Particularly ginger ones.

So YABVU.

Urgh my DH did this when working abroad once - turned up having not shaved for weeks, not even tidied it up.

It was vile, reminded me of the Twits.

i can't kiss dh when he hasn't shaved. Its like sandpaper on my face.

so i don't

and he shaves.

say to him - "it's your body darling and you are ofcoure allowed to do what you like.

however my face gets scratched when you come near me. So my body is telling me to keep away from yours.

as long as we are clear my sweet!"

Interesting ..... DH grew a beard a year or so ago, after growing a moustache for Charity (like yours verity - your husband, not your beard, I mean).

Much to my surprise, I really like it - makes him look macho and rugged. I think I might be having a mid-life crisis and am imagining he is someone else .

But, he says he is keeping it mainly because I like it so much. I'd hope he'd lsiten if I hated it ....

(I don't like it when it gets too straggly though - looks like it might have food in it. Yuk)

no no keep yourself defuzzed and beautiful and simply withdraw snog priveleges

If you really hate it you must INSIST that it is removed (or else no 'hows your father').
My DH has a beard. He used to always grow a 'holiday beard', and one day it just stayed! I campaigned to have it removed but by the time it was gone, everyone (including me) thought he looked a bit funny without it, so it returned. I really like him with a beard now (kind of a goatee really) but am very insistent that it is well trimmed (especially the moustache!).

DH has had a beard/goatee for the vast majority of our time together - I have to say I do like it, on him, and he does tidy it, trim it, shave round it and generally coiff it (sp?!). TBH I think he likes having it to maul with as the hair on top gets thinner! . My face is desensitised to the prickles now, I think groomed, cared for beards look fine!

HE EXPECTS you to be hair free!?

Beards rock though!

Yuk, images of hairy tangled sex.

Nothing wrong with a bit of 70s lovin

I asked DH to grow a beard to see what he looked like but he said it would be so patchy he'd get laughed at.

Funnily enough, after a discussion here a month or two ago I've started growing a beard. Now it's got past the itchy-as-hell stage I'm quite liking it

It is sooo scratchy when men have facial hair. I just keep pointing out how horrid it is and pull away when DH tries to kiss me. Also get friends and relatives to comment (or just laugh ) when they see him.

You could let your hair grow, but keeping yourself hair free and refusing to go near him will probably work best .

Snorbs - Would that be an up above beard or a down below one?