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To tell your significant other or surprise

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Nickd:
So as I draw closer to going from a buzz cut to bald, the decision to either tell my wife or surprise her will have to be made. I did tell her that I was going to start buzzing my own hair before making that change.

My question to everyone is did you tell your significant other before you started shaving or did you go for the surprise effect? Either way what was the reaction that you received?

Cave Dweller:
I surprised her. For about two months or so, I had been telling my wife that I was thinking of shaving. She had been supportive and had said I should do it if it was what I wanted.

On the afternoon of January 1, 2013, while she was napping, I decided that it was time to do it, so I went into the bathroom, buzzed off the horseshoe and shaved down to smooth.

She was very surprised when I woke her up, but she liked it.

nick2401:
When I went sly the first time I was single. I was on a camping trip with my dad, so I go him to do the honours of buzzing and shaving my head. We didn't tell my mother and I made sure to be wearing a hat when I came home and only took it off after it had been a good 20 minutes to surprise her. She was a little shocked but said it was my hair. Now more then 7 months into being sly she mentioned the other day that it felt like I had alway been like this... and that is the best compliment I have heard yet.

kalva76:
When I finally decided to go sly, I chose a day when I had the house to myself so I could concentrate and not be bothered. I was pretty anxious, as I guess most are the first time they shave. So I buzzed my hair as low as I could, and then nervously went in with the razor. After the completion of the world's longest shave, thankfully blood free, I saw that it was a definite improvement, and a significant change. I then thought about the reaction I was going to get from my wife later that day. Ironically, when my wife and son came home, no one noticed for over an hour! Then after seeing it, she was fine with it. I say surprise them. Sometimes its harder for a significant other to visualize how good it will more than likely look.

mrzed:
I think my wife ad a suspicion that it was coming.  She did not complain too much about buzzing shorter and shorter, but would add, "You're not going to shave your head, are you".  Usually would respond, "Well, not for now". 

After a conversation which, to me, sounded like she was OK with it, I shaved my head in the shower the next morning.  Agreed. It was the longest head shave. Agreed. It was a pretty anxious moment.  Showing up at work was pretty anxious, too. 

Right after shaving my head, my wife had a trip to visit her sisters in Minneapolis.  The sisters RAVED about my shaved head for the whole 10 days that wife was there.  (Sent pictures daily).

She's been OK with it since.

Man, all this talk about shaving ... makes me want to go do it again.

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