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I’ve never seen my partners whole face
I’ve known my partner for 6 years now and he’s never shaved in that time; he’s always rocked a full comfy beard and stash, only trimming every week or so.
I remember (early on) when I discovered the shape of his upper lip because he accidentally trimmed his mustache too short, and I was somehow shocked to discover he had such a cute upper lip
I don’t think about it that often but I truly can’t imagine his face without 50%+ of it covered in hair, kinda spooks me sometimes when I do think about it (but not in any serious way, I love the man, probably still if he’d have no face at all)
(Sometimes I really wanna use an image generator to find out what his face looks like under there but it feels highly invasive and also fuck AI)
Dinner is butternut squash and feta cheese, I think I’ll blend it for a sauce or a soup
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Fyi, if the business survives (which based on the facts that were outted by the part time optional unmasking saga seems unlikely), and you're ever out that way, it is actually a really cool spot. It always has been- I've been during all of the last 3 regimes. I get that some people are bummed out by being asked to mask, but they'll provide one at the door and it's not that big of a deal (imo) (which I think makes it even crazier the way the whole story blew up).
Liz Lemon threatens to cut them all so they'll all have chins and then they pan around and every man in the room has the weakest chin you've ever seen.
I was expecting a long-distance catfishing scenario where the guy just points the camera at his forehead during video calls and makes weird excuses for it. I was relieved! Lol
IDK why but my dumb brain was expecting this man to be angling himself to a profile view only at all times. One side profile or the other, no head on views of face allowed 😂😂😂 it's definitely Friday
I was expecting a mask, lol. ( doesn't help I read a romance book recently where one of the characters was attacked by a dog in his face as a kid and now wears a mask to hide)
My husband did this once and my daughter cried inconsolably. He’s very handsome both ways but he just didn’t “look like dada.” She really hated when I wore makeup when she was smaller as well because it made me look different. 😂
When my daughter was about 3 I dyed my blonde hair deep red. When she saw me she just stared and stared and stared. Didn’t really phase her, she grew up to be a pretty stoic lady.
Lol, out of the mouths of babes! I can't recall if I said anything, but my reaction was not positive and my dad never shaved it off again, so I assume the memory was etched in the dark parts of his psyche too.
My dad did the opposite and tried out a mustache (in the year our lord 1994) and I cried when I saw him. We have one (1) JC Penney picture as proof. I would have been four or five? lol
This is my husband! I've seen photos with "naked face" and even with the beard, people have thought he was way younger than me. If he ever shaved, I'm convinced people will think he's my child.
We're in our 40's. I've warned him if he shaves without my knowledge he should be prepared to be stabbed, and my defense will be I thought it was a home invasion from a stranger.
Look at pics of him from his high school/college years before he had a beard. It would obviously not be the same now, but you'll be able to see the facial structure.
He’s been bearded since a teenager I think but I did see an old passport photo of him once with the beard really short and he kinda looked like a Russian spy
Y'know how they advise bearded parents to, if they need to shave, to do it in front of their very young children to help ease the transition for the kid? Otherwise they might not know that's really their dad.
My dad shaved his beard once when I was a child, and I still remember how much i hated it - my dad had a beard! Similarly, my husband occasionally shaves his face (usually in summer to let the sun reach his skin!), and my children, while more used to it than I was, still don't like it, and honestly, I'm not a fan either.
My dad used to have either a mustache or full beard all the time when I was a kid. At some point when I was older he started shaving and has been clean shaven since, but I was so used to him having a beard and/or mustache that I still think of him with one, and I have to like, actually look at him to remind my brain that he doesn't have it anymore. I think he's gone without it now longer than he had it in my lifetime, but my brain still clings to the image of him with facial hair.
Same! My dad has a goatee he regularly wears because he's self conscious of his cleft chin. He also has very dark hair. Periodically he would shave it all off and every time I'd be SO confused lol
Would have been smart for my dad to do that! I was watching cartoons after a hard day of coloring and math at school and here walks in this man saying my name and asking if I like his face! I kicked him in the balls as hard as I could and ran away 😂
I got in trouble but I’m impressed 5 year old me had the cojones to kick a man I thought I didn’t know that barged into the house
I made this suggestion because my dad had a full beard and shaved it off when I was 4. I apparently burst into tears screaming "that's not my daddy, where is my daddy??" loudly enough that the neighbors knocked on the door 😬
My dad had a big stache and apparently when I was like 2, he shaved it for some reason, and I cried every time I looked at him. He grew it back and never cut it off again.
man... the only warning was the immediate chemical burn in the eyes when she had done her perm in the kitchen. I was 5, I walked in and straight up told her that her head looked like a curly basketball.
We still laugh at my daughter's reaction to her Dad shaving when she was 3, he surprised her with it. She was absolutely disgusted and screamed, "YOU LOOK WEIRRRRRD!!!" 🥴 To be fair, he really did LOL!
I remember having a mental breakdown as a kid after seeing my mom with curly hair for the first time. In my defense, she had pin straight, waist length, black hair and those curls created their own shadowy zip code.
We were on a family camping trip with my dad. I must have been 6 or so. My dad decided to use the bathroom on our way out with my siblings and I waiting out in the car. Little did we know, he shaved off his beard and mustache.
He came walking back to the car and started to come in and we all started screaming. We didn't know who he was. He had to calm us down. He learned after that.
My dad died when I was 39. He had a full bushy beard my entire life, I've never seen him any other way. On the rare occasion I see pics from his childhood/early adulthood, it's hard to process that it's the same person!
My dad had long hair when I was very young. He got it cut short when he joined the army. One of my earliest memories was hiding from him, not believing it was really him.
I still remember the moment I saw my dad without a beard for the first time, I must have been 2-3 years old. I cried because it scared me so much 😂 Ironically he looked so much better and younger without a beard or with only a mustache.
We’re on year 12 and never seen my husband shaved. I saw pictures of him in his younger years shaved and told him I’d have a lawyer on retainer if he ever did.
My husband shaved his beard "just to see". We both endured it but he pointed out once it grew back that I got irritated with him waaay faster without the beard 😅
My dad always had a beard. Sometimes it was a big ZZ Top thing, sometimes it was trimmed, but it was mostly always there. On a couple of occasions, he threw caution to the wind and took it off and my mum always reacted badly: "Oh Stephen! Put it back on! I'm going to have to move to a hotel for a couple of weeks!".
One day, my dad came to pick us up from school and he was naked faced. He sat us down that afternoon and told us that he and mum were getting a divorce. Obviously, it was totally unrelated to his face, but I was convinced that she'd finally snapped over his beard shaving.
Met my partner with a beard, he surprised me one day with a shaven face. Omg I was being so dramatic. When I realized how ridiculous I was being I took a picture of my mid-crying face just to remind myself. He was even more handsome without it.
It takes me actual days to feel like all is right in the world when my partner shaves his face and cuts his hair (he used to have to for work so every few months) & I outright stop talking to my best male friend when he shaves until it grows back (we text basically everyday but I will actively avoid seeing pictures now that we're states apart). I don't like dramatic change 😭😭
My husband also shaved his beard when I was about 3 months pp. Our infant CRIED because who was this strange person??? He hasn’t shaved it off since, over a decade ago 😂
I saw an episode of a hospital show where the patient had this thick beard for years. While he was under anesthesia, his friends shaved his beard and he had a bunch of really bad tattoos.
Hopefully that's just a ludicrous story line cooked up for tv
There's an episode of The Great where a noble petitions the Emperor to keep his beard because he's afraid if his wife sees him without it, she'll never sleep with him again. And indeed his face is covered with pustules.
That doesn't stop one of the main characters from sleeping with him.
Lol, I love that!! My partner doesn't grow a thick beard, but he looks soooo different when he shaves!! And I kinda like it. He looks sleek & mysterious.
Now, he's thinking of cutting his hair short, and he has literally these long gorgeous prince curls that form beautiful ringlets. Trying to get him to learn to care for his curls before he shaves it in frustration omg 😭
Omg my guy of 6 years has a glorious beard too and now that you mention it I've never seen him beardless. New fear unlocked. I don't wanna picture it 🥸🤐
“I would shave off half of my father’s face” created a very different, albeit disturbing, image in my head until I realized that you weren’t saying you’d shave off his face but shave off his beard. 😬🤣
My husband shaved for the first time during Covid lockdown. He was still cute, but the beard came back. It was fun.
And if you want a real trippy thought, my grandfather was in the war and a shell went off in his face. He was blinded (no eyes) and had so much reconstructive surgery. So he never saw his wife, kids, or anyone. And we truly don’t know what he looked like. We only saw after the plastic surgery. There are no pictures of him from before so we just kinda guess if we might look like him or not.
I was quite unhappy when I saw my husband’s shaven face for the first time. We’d been married 5 years. My MIL died before I met him, but she’d told her daughters never to marry a man with a beard without having seen him clean shaven. It’s good advice.
Not me, but several years ago my usually bushy-faced husband shaved all his facial hair off on a whim and our dog couldn't stop staring at him. He wasn't worried or scared, just completely fascinated that's what his "dad" looked like without fur
Girl, my husband fully shaved for the first time after we had been dating a year. If he wasn’t in my bathroom when it happened I wouldn’t have recognized him. He went from being an Adonis of a man to looking like a young Rick Moranis in “Honey I Shrunk the Kids” it was upsetting. How did this man hide from me the fact that he has zero chin?
So, lesson learned, maybe you don’t actually want to know.
This whole god damn fucking thread is absolutely wild to lesbian me, all these women here who have no idea what the men they are married to look like under their beards. Absolutely fuck all, wild, just wild. How about no.
Bisexual, I agree. Like, you haven't ever been curious? You're telling me the first time you saw your partner shaved was when he was your HUSBAND? The concept of not being able to immediately recognize your spouse is freaky asf
isn't it kinda fucked up? you're basically telling him you think his real face is ugly? for me it's the same if my partner said he doesn't want to see my face without makeup
If my husband shaves his beard all the way off he is a dead ringer for his sister. And I mean she has mistaken photos of him for herself before. So this is a trim only, no full shave household.
I’ve never seen my husband without a beard. I’ve seen pics of it from his time in the navy but that was ~50lbs ago. He said he won’t even consider shaving the beard until he’s confident there’s only 1 chin under it
My Dad shaved his facial hair once 25 years ago when I was 4 or 5 and apparently I cried so bad he never did it again, I don’t remember what it looks like.
My ex-husband always had a full beard and I’d never seen his face either. We had been together for about 5 years and one day he came home fully shaved.
He scared me so bad I peed a little. I thought someone had broken in to our house and I started attacking the poor bastard.
I've been with my husband for ten years, married for eight, and I have never seen him clean-shaven. He trimmed his beard fairly short one time for a costume a couple years into marriage, and I was like NOPE ABSOLUTELY NOT GROW IT BACK. Not that he was unattractive; it just freaked out my brain.
My first boyfriend had a full beard and I was shocked when one day he shaved it all off. I couldn't believe how gorgeous he was like Dang I have been dating THAT this whole time? Woo wee!
I’ve seen pics of my boyfriend clean shaven when he was like 22 and he’s very cute but he doesn’t think he is. He is very cute with a beard too. I’ll take it.
I have never seen my husband’s chin and we’ve been together for 24 years - he’s always had a full beard or goatee. Now that you mention it, I am kind of curious…
Oh same! Together 12 years. I've seen photos of him from before he was able to grow a beard so I can kind of imagine what he'd look like without it. Luckily I love beards so I'm happy either way.
I asked my Dad to grow a beard as a kid and did. Last week he shaved it off for the first time in about 30 years for surgery. Such a strange sight at first, but the beard is already coming back.
My husband said he'd shave one day to surprise me but years came and went, never saw it. Finally eight years in we watched one of those videos where men surprise their partners after shaving and he did it within a day or two. Keep waiting, maybe one day lol
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