His Daughter’s Been Suffering From Hair Loss Caused By Medical Issues, So He Allowed Her To Shave Her Head, And His Ex-Wife’s Furious
This 40-year-old man has been divorced for 10 years because he and his ex-wife could simply never get along.
However, they share a 15-year-old daughter, who has been battling medical issues and suffering from hair loss as a result.
“My daughter is supposed to be going to the doctor next month. She will be going through a lot of tests to find out the cause of this,” he said.
However, in the meantime, she’s been losing “huge amounts” of hair, and he claimed that it is extremely noticeable.
So, as you can imagine, his daughter has been devastated, and he’s been trying to support her during this tough time.
But, after she returned home from school yesterday, she came to him with a perhaps shocking request– she wanted to cut all of her hair off. Her reasoning was that she was sick and tired of her hair just falling out on its own.
After hearing his daughter out, he agreed to let her do that, too. So, he called his friend– who is a licensed cosmetologist– and they went over to his house to shave his daughter’s head.
Well, after his ex-wife found out, she was furious at him and texted him the following morning.
“I can’t believe you let her cut her hair. You know how mean kids at school can be,” his ex wrote.
Dasha Petrenko – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
At that point, he replied by asking whether any of the kids at school had been giving their daughter a problem. This forced his ex-wife to admit that no one had been bullying the teen.
Nonetheless, his ex still claimed that kids could be “cruel,” so their daughter “could” get bullied. Then, she continued to berate him for letting their daughter “go out like that.”
He didn’t appreciate that, either, which is why he told his wife that he’d be happy to buy their daughter some wigs if her shaved head was that bothersome.
He also pointed out how it was his daughter’s idea to cut her hair. After all, she was sick of stressing herself out over all the hair loss.
Well, his ex-wife still wouldn’t back down and told him that he could have stopped the teen. On top of that, his ex said that they had Easter family portraits coming up in one month and was upset that family members would see the photos with their daughter’s shaved head.
“So I responded, ‘It seems like you care more about the photos than your daughter’s happiness. She looks beautiful regardless of whether she has hair or not. What if our daughter heard you say that stuff?” he recalled.
After that, he just decided to ignore his ex-wife’s text messages. Still, with his ex so bent out of shape over this, he’s now wondering if allowing his daughter to shave her head was really the wrong thing to do.
Do you think he did the right thing by supporting his daughter’s decision? Does it sound like his ex-wife’s priorities are out of order? How would you have handled this situation?
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