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50 year old man with earring

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Razor X:

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--- Quote from: BUELLIGAN on July 11, 2015, 05:32:56 AM ---I'm 54, I've had my ear pierced since I was 14. Got my first tattoo when I was 40 now have 2 full sleeves
With more to come. You're never too old, if people don't like it........f**k 'em

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Damn right you're never too old. I would love to get a tattoo, but it's the $$$ that's stopping me. piercing is a lot cheaper. if I won the lottery the first thing I would do is get a tattoo. the wife might have something to say about that, tho. :*))

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If the lottery win is big enough, she might not care.   >:D

MunkyMunk:
My wife and I have made explicit over the years that we are each committed to our own personal exploration and growth as well as to each other's. We've seen each other go through brave periods of personal growth as well as embarrassing phases. We don't always agree with the other's choices, but we realize that to stagnate is to die a little.
Over the course of the 14 years we've been married, we've both become "different people," but because we've done it together, we haven't grown apart.
I thank the Gods that I've changed from the man she married and I'm so proud of the areas in which she's stretched and grown, both personally and professionally. We're both better partners and better parents than we used to be.
I've had my ears pierced since around 1984. Most of my upper body is tattooed. And now my head is shaved. And my wife rolls with it. She has given birth to three kids, which has caused its own changes to her body. We each love who the other was, is, and is becoming.
Of all the things you could be doing to your body, earrings are such a benign thing to get upset about.
Hang in there. Once she sees that you're still the guy she loves, she could come around.

paperclip:
Yeah, you are right MunkyMunk. Hopefully she's come to that point now, that its so trivial its not a big deal.
I mentioned earlier that she freaked out on me for piercing my right ear to match my left. this was 10 years ago when I turned 40. I was so upset at the time that I took the earring out of my left ear and didn't wear one for a long time. There was another reason I stopped wearing it but it's too long to go into here. Suffice it to say that we have both matured over the last 10 years.
I turned 50 last spring and started wearing an earring again in May. She never said anything about it. My boss at work (female mid 50s) suggested I wear earrings in both ears as it was more trendy.  she knows the history with my wife and agreed that I not do anything I wasn't comfortable with. I pierced my right ear in July and only wore it when my wife wasn't around which is difficult for healing purposes. To get around this little problem, I decided to wear the earring in only in my right ear so I was technically only wearing it in one ear( she was OK with one ear). the whole "gay ear, right ear" thing is so ancient history, so I wasn't worried. she saw the earring in the right ear while driving her to work one day and said "are you wearing 2 earrings?" and I said "no" because technically I wasn't--at that moment. she then said "it looks infected". it turned out that it was a few days later so I took it out of my right ear and started wearing it in my left ear again. No comment from the wife at all.
Now September I got bold and pierced my right ear again and again only wore the right ear around my wife and both when she was at work and i was at work.
she was in a good mood the other day and I felt like "this is the time" she won't be mad at me if I wear it in both ears, she's in too good of a mood. so I wore them in both ears when she got home from work. No comment. We went to two family functions over the weekend (Canada-Thanksgiving) and no one made a comment. no one at all. I was totally shocked and surprised.
so I'm happily wearing earrings in both ears at work and at home around my wife. I'm still a little nervous that she will comment about it, but she hasn't so far. so either she has matured a lot in the last 10 years or she really doesn't care. She's never said she liked it, just not commented at all...

MunkyMunk:
Marriage is a funny thing. Two people partnering and navigating all of life's challenges together, throughout all kinds of things. It's amazing. And every marriage and every couple has their things which challenge more than others. That is life.
My best to you both, paperclip. It's a journey.  O0

Aussie Sly Guy:
I'm 28 and I have 3 sleepers in my left lobe and 2 in my right helix.

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