My wife has alway had a thing about her hair. She doesn't want anyone (me or the kids) to touch it. And she spends like nearly hour fooling with it each morning. Honestly, I can't tell any difference between her spending fifteen minutes on it and 60 minutes on it. Some mornings she take two showers if after blow drying it, it doesn't look just right, so she'll get in the shower again, get it all wet and start over.

Now I think she is really losing it. On Saturday we were going to the pool. The kids and I were ready, but she was in the bathroom with her water spray bottles, hair spray, and her blow dryer fixing her hair just right. She did this for an extra fifteen minutes just before we left. We were going to the pool! Her hair was just going to get wet in ten minutes! Even though she didn't fully submerge her head, her hair got wet from the kids' splashing.

When we got home, she showered and started the hair routine all over again.

My sister is like that with her hair, too....she'll spend forever on getting it to look "just right"...:dunno:

I might have been a little like that, waaaaaaay back in high school or something, but now I normally pull it back, or when we're going out I just leave it down...

It's just not something I have the patience for!

:blink: SOUNDS A LITTLE OCD TO ME :screwy:

JUST KIDDING.

Yikes. I have a BIL like that.....:blink: His hair always has to be "just so".

Yeah - if I have to do anything with my hair, it's too long. In fact, it's 1/4" right now. Time for a trim.

If I had my way, I'd shave it all off!

Geez, I'm just happy to get out the door with my hair brushed!

why dontcha? Ty used to have a SHORT buzz cut...he decided it was just easier to shave it clean....

Bald is SEXY!! :thumbsup: :eyebrows:

I aim to please, and my wife doesn't think my head will look good shaved. "Too many lumps," is how she puts it.

Well, considering I've been knocked unconscious several times, there are a lot of lumps on my head. :D

:hammer: no way you didn't just say that. i may have been overly obsessed with my hair in high school/college, but i don't think so anymore. mostly i just wear hats because i hate fixing my hair!!! :hug: i still love you bunches tho

I was going to say that about the hats....but I didn't know if it was only when you were here on vacation! :lol:

No one else has addressed this, but I will.Sounds like she has a MAJOR vanity issue. Such vanity can and will impede her spiritual develoopment and something needs to be done. have you talked to her about it? God tells us to humble ourselves and spending hours in fromt of a mirror is in direct defiance of His intentions for us. We are not supposed to be that concerned with our physical appearances. Please intervene and encourage your wife to get spiritual counselling or help to break her of this thing. such vanity is not a good thing for us to carry with us on our road to salvation...

When I first married my husband he was kind of like that. It was so bad we were looking at a furniture store one day and the sales man noticed him looking in almost every mirror we walked by. As he has grown spiritually, the behavior has lessened considerably.

and on the flip side string.....

i don't think christians should look like slobs all day every day either. sometimes we SHOULD put a little more effort in to ourselves. i agree with you about being humble. but i think that sometimes christians go to the other extreme and look like homely slobs! whether we like it or not, we live in a world FULL of vanity. if we walk into that world and expect some of "those people" to hear what we have to say about Christ, then we are sadly fooling ourselves. unfortantely, because they are human...and NOT christian.... they have been taught by the world to judge a book by it's COVER. so if we look like a slob all the time, i don't think the world would take a second out of their busy sinful lives to recognize how different christians really are.


it's EVERYTHING to do with the ATTITUDE. take school for example: i like to dress "younger" when i go to school. since i am 31 yrs. old, i am the "old mommy in the back" sometimes. but i feel that god has blessed me with a life full of experiences and i like to share those experiences sometimes. i have found acceptance easily there, by the younger students, and i know it's because i show by my attitude and dress that i want to understand their world better and come to where THEY are in life and then walk them to the Cross from there.

plus....it does help with depression when you take some time to do yourself up a little. :thumbsup:

ok...done preaching now :amen:

I never once said to go around looking like a slob. But spending hours and hours in front of a mirror and refusing to let your babies or even your husband touch your hair is an entirely different thing....You went to the opposite extreme and totally missed my point.... :doh:

NOPE. DIDN'T MISS IT. JUST ADDING TO IT.....WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION....LOL. :D I AGREE WITH ALL THAT YOU SAID. I'M NOT DEBATING WITH YOU AT ALL. JUST GIVING THE FLIP SIDE OF THE EXTREME AND SHOWING A MORE POSITIVE SOLUTION.

IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE GETTING DONE UP ALL THE TIME ANYWAY, SUCH AS HIS WIFE, THEN MAYBE IT'S AN ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT THAT NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE SO THAT YOU ARE DOING IT FOR THE RIGHT REASONS.