Not the most pressing issue of our times, but need advice on how to win my wonderful wife over to accept a beard.

Not going there but someone will. Ha!

Lol

I lost that battle during the first half

Not to helpful, but it's best to have one when you first meet.

grow it out, as she fusses and fumes, just nod your head and say I'm gonna shave it one of these days


if she keeps it up


let her know, honey didn't want to bring it up, but I been getting some unwanted attention from some ole gal, and she mentioned she hated a man with a hairy face.


didn't really want to bring it up, but truth be known I love you and only you and just figured this was the easiest way to get rid of that skank.


then go take her into the bedroom and get your beard moistened.

What can she do about it?,...shave it while you sleep?

Dictate to her the fact that a man whose wife is not in constant state of "brazilian" isn't really asking, so much as informing.

Unless she is consistantly in a state of "brazilian", then shave, smile, and STFU.

Lmao

2legit2quit, Thanks for the advice. My wife assumes that you are not married. (No comment)

Im glad my wife doesnt want to grow a beard.

Oh, i get it. Well, get her Mr Ts phone number.

Accept that there will be consequences and just grow one.
What is she going to do, Take away your birthday??
For better and, or worse.

Grow it and she'll come around when it changes from scruffy to fluffy.

Grow a set.

Then grow your beard, in that order.

You could convert to islam and tell her the beard is a requirement.

My wife likes me to wear a mustache. A beard is a bonus for her. I do not like any facial hair.

If I had my way my face would be baby butt smooth. I only shave on the weekend.

The way she looks at me & lingers with that twinkle in her eye makes it all worth it for me. So, I consider the 'stache to be a small concession.

Amazing question! First grow a set and then grow a beard!

Is this a serious fuggin' question?

1) Take off her skinny jeans. Men should not wear women's pants.

2) Now that you have room in your pant choice, grow a set.

3) Once your balls drop and you go through puberty, the beard won't be a problem.

Tips: Keep it neat and trim it weekly. Avoid this:



Because men should not wear women's jeans.

Put it on Tom Selleck?

no matter what the other dufas's say i understand your problem. 50 years married and she still gives me crap about my beard. loves my mustache but says the beard makes me look old! i just look t her and ask if she remembers the 50's. kinda shuts her up.

I doubt your wife will like you having another girlfriend, even if you are gay.

If you have to ask your wife if you should grow a beard then you shouldn’t grow a beard and y’all should both start dating other men.....

Take away her checkbook and credit cards. She'll come right around.

I would think its the same argument if she gives you any back talk about shaving her privates if that's what you prefer.

Wait until you've been married at least 10 years. You won't worry about a beard bothering her and she will ignore you anyway. My Wife gave up on hounding me about 5 years in. Just keep it trimmed short for awhile and it will be a minor thing. Then just stop trimming it. It will go unnoticed until you hit Robertson lengths.

My ex-wife was opposed to my growing a beard.

I told her, "Why can't I have one? You do!"

Just do it. Its growing on its own anyway.......you are not having to do anything special.

Grow out your hair too. Damn waste of money keeping your ears lowered all the time.

What, you're too lazy to cut your own hair?

My friend tells me I cultivate on my face what grows wild on his rear end.

Just start a couple of months in advance with the negotiations.

I do that and it works like a charm!

Here's how:

When with your wife, ether out or watching TV, and when you spot a guy with a beard like the ZZ Top guy, turn to her and say "Honey, I think I'll grow a beard like that!" Don't say anything else. Just let it sink in.

Then when you see a Duck Dynasty commercial with all the Robertson's ask her "Which beard do you prefer?"

The next time you see a homeless guy with his beard down to his chest, tell her you want a beard just a bit longer than that guy's...

Keep it up until you hear the magic words... "If you are going to have a beard, it better be short and well trimmed!"

Mission accomplished!

Grew my beard at age 18 and have worn it pretty much continuously since then. I had a full beard when I got married so it has never been an issue with the wife.

I really don't get the new Bin Laden beard trend. I understand it if you are growing it to hide ugly, but otherwise, shave. Women don't really want sasquatch rootin' around in their crotch.

She will get used to it

Overton Window for beards?

I wonder how many guys would accept when their wife comes up to announce they won't be "shaving anything any longer"...

Hmmm?

Backroads,

That was classic, thanks for the laugh!

Good argument too!

I use to grow a beard for deer season. Shaved it off when the season was over. One year wife said just leave it on. Had a beard now for 35 years.

She likely thinks she wouldn't look good with a beard. It's not very feminine.

Where is the damned "like" button?

This^^^. WTH is it with the freaking muzzy/ISIS look.

I heard it several times, and took her to task... She folded long before I complained.

Tell her to break up with her boyfriend if she doesn't like his beard.

If you have a wonderful wife, you already won. Enjoy. Forget the small stuff.

Oh, yeah. Women complain how they have to shave their pits and legs for "us". BS.

I could really GAS, but she still shaves.

Glad I read a few posts ahead before posting my first thought, I hate being repetitious.

Did you marry a woman who refuses to shave her legs and pits? I know I didn't.

But if you did, you had it coming.

My wife told me that if I quit shaving, she would too. I wasn't up for that challenge.

Nah. Had to break my wife from shaving every damn thing. Some things are just better that way.

TMI......

Thanks guys I appreciate your recommendations! Contrary to what my question may lead some to believe my male anatomy is intact, I served in the United States Marine Corps; and would like to win my wife of more than 25 years' acceptance of this thing. Some of your suggestions should help. At least my Lab seems to like it!

In all honesty, Keep it trimmed to about 3 or 4 guard at first. Keep it clean and neat. Use a beard wax/oil as it gets longer. Biggest complaint was that it would "smell" at th eend of the day. Wash it and care for it she'll get over it.

Some women appreciate the "Womb Broom"

"Beards and how do I get my wife to accept one"


If she is over forty then wrap it around a Mastercard, if she is under forty stick it to an Iphone.

Go ahead and complete the hipster look by wearing a man bun and a flannel shirt too. Or if it's the biker trash look you want, find a good neck tattoo artist. Or if it's the Muslim look you want, don't stop short of your glory, wear a turban to complement it.

Grow you beard. If she demands you to shave it, tell her you will decide her hairstyle from now on...just to be fair.

Same here.
My sister was a Spanish exchange student. Lived in Spain for several years. Said the worst thing was they only bathe twice a week, and only prostitutes shave anything. She HATED not being able to shave her pits and legs.

Compromise.

Grow a Sam Elliott cookie duster! Women love that!

This^^^^

Revoke the op's man card....

Desertranger,

My lady says that my full beard is SOFT, feels good against her skin AND she says that I look like an Old Testament prophet.


My GUESS is that she'll get used to it.

yours, satx

Make a deal, you quit shaving your face and she gets to stop shaving her legs.

Dunno if i should post this, but here goes. A long time ago a wife came into the machine shop at quitting time and told her husband to get the chips out of his beard because it really tore up her legs. He nearly had to quit over that one.

Hardest part of growing a beard is getting past the wino look stage.

It's the Magic Carpet... just ask if she wants a ride.

As for the "Bin Laden look" I should probably take great offense to comments like that but in the end, it only shows your ignorance, arrogance, and bigotry. I grow my beard in the colder months because I trap and having a chapped face sucks. I shave in March for the warmer months and keep only a goatee neatly cropped. It wasn't so many years ago that growing a beard was simply what men did, and only boys had a clean face. It was an aristocratic society that decided men should be clean shaven and dress like pompous little boys. A clean face was merely a holdover from that. The more contemporary days of people associating beards with a "lower class of men" are coming to an end thank goodness.

Never thought to ask mine.

I'm calling BS on a beards keeping anybody warm. Beards are temperature neutral.

You don't. Spend your energy on something that matters.

@TimberRunner,

I didn't say WARM, I said keeps my face from getting Chapped. Call BS all you want. At 0400 in the morning with it's below freezing and the wind is ripping, my face gets chapped. Beard prevents that.

Tell her if I want your opinion I'll give it to you, now STFU.

Probably a good idea to have your overnight bag in the truck first.

Lots of users/ internet friends giving ya advice. This guys friends helped him out with his beard also. https://youtu.be/q03hNtdzNl8

This^^^. I dont lick legs and armpits.

Grow your beard and enjoy it young man, we work our asses off for our women, watch out for and protect them, would take a damn bullet and die for them, we certainly dont care what clothes, shoes they wear, or how they cut their hair or what purse to carry.

Seems pretty simple to me, my face = my choice.

I think some guys want the SOCOM look. See it alot, hat with the subdued US flag, tactical pants and boots.

Not saying all or the OP are like that, I think a lot of dudes just do what is trendy.

Worn a beard for the last 40 or so winters. When its zero and the wind is blowing my beard sure feels warmer. Keeps the wind off my lower face. On days like today, I wouldn't be without it.

I'd grow a beard just for convenience if not for the fact that radiation killed about a 3rd of it many years ago. I don't care to look like I got the mange.

But this old gray beard ain't like the beard I used to have. Once it turns gray it's about like 12 lb test monofilament. A razor used to just wipe it off back when it had some color. Now I have to scratch at it until I'm bleedin' from 8 different places.

Shaving didn't used to suck. It does now.

Oh I'm married alright, for 20 years in January (gulp)

but my wife says I'm barely married (bigger gulp)

Should have just said “Copy Tanner”

Is she going for the bearded lady act?


Or does she wear the pants and you can’t wipe your own azz without permission?

I like this!

One time at work a lady made a comment that my beard was getting a bit shaggy - my response : winter coat. A bunch of other women standing around started laughing out loud. Never heard another comment again.

I've had a beard for nearly 41 years. My bride TOLD me she preferred the beard to my stubble, even shortly after shaving. Said it was much less scratchy.That might work.

Pound it out like it was the first time you guys got really kinky. Get a little drunk and just tear it up for all your worth, keeping her pleasure in mind. When you are both lying in a pool of sweat panting, basking in the glory, look over and tell her, " The beard stays". She will not argue.

Mustache rides can be quite compelling.

Yeah, they are not too bad. Some are better than others though.

With my wives and girlfriends, there was no problem. In 1986 I got chicken pox as an adult. My face looked like the craters of the moon, and I could not shave for 9 weeks. The beard has never come off. When it all started, I'd just met my first wife, Satan. She never complained about it. Wife 2.0 AKA KYHillChick has never seen me without it.

Just grow a pair and start letting it grow. If she doesn't like it, she'll run off with the mailman or something and you can get a new one that likes the beard. Just remember, she would have anyway. The beard was just an excuse.

Been married to the same woman for almost 47 years and never had a problem with her caring the least bit whether I grew a beard or not. The only thing she's ever said was that she didn't much like the looks of goatees. I used to start growing a full beard in the Fall and shave it all off in the Spring but since retiring I quit shaving altogether and have kept a full beard year-round.

Mine's mostly all white now with a little red mixed in. I always have a some laughs because of my beard with little kids especially around Christmas time. I get a kick out of watching them watching me thinking I'm Santa Clause or could be. They really can do some serious kissing up too.

I've had kids that were acting rowdy and disobeying their parents/grandparents in stores all of a sudden see me and their jaws drop and immediately straighten up and start being good.

One cute little toddler of around two or three years old saw me in Cracker Barrel gift shop went and got a little tricycle and dragged it over to show me and started jabbering in baby talk and pointing at the trike. I really couldn't understand what all she was saying but I think she was letting me know that that tricycle was what she wanted for Christmas.

A young Downs Syndrome girl probably somewhere in her teens with an older woman I assume was her mother grandparent or a guardian holding her hand walking across a grocery store parking lot spotted me sitting in my car. She immediately started grinning real big and tugging at the woman who was holding her hand pointing at me and waving all excited.

You never know what the future might hold but barring any unforeseeable circumstances that would require me to shave it all off I figure I'll most likely be buried with a full beard still intact.

How does she get you to accept a new hairstyle or colour? I am guessing she just does it, doesn't care about your opinion, asks you later.

I would follow her lead.

Grow the thing and ignore her, when she bitches about it more than you can ignore bring up something you hate that she does.

Really simple.

don't shave for a few days.

put your head between her thighs.

rub around a lot until she is brush burned badly.

then splain to her hew a nice beard, treated with hair softner would just give her a nice tickle while you were "yodeling in the canyon".

I've had mine for 50 years ---- no complaints.

Interesting photo album Root!



Everyone remembers you pretending to be your wife Karen here on the board a few years back (BossLady), but wasn't aware you actually dress up in her clothes! lol

Apparently your wife Karen is the one doing the "yodeling" in the "man" canyon.

Sick phfucugger.

Not sure why you would post this claiming to be someone it's not. You can right click on the image and Google search it. Comes up as a Walmart photo.