When people get married, the general expectation is that you’re going to be together for the rest of your lives. (Hence the whole “’til death do us part'” bit.)
But some people may not be so keen on watching their significant other age and may try to encourage their spouse to seek out medical intervention to ensure that they remain looking as youthful as possible for their own selfish gain.
Those type of people probably shouldn’t get married.
Believe it or not, scientists haven’t found any sort of cure for aging yet.
We’re born, we live, we die. That’s the hard truth of it, but that’s also life.
There’s no magic pill we can swallow or Fountain Of Youth we can take a quick dip in to stop ourselves from growing old. (And no, that anti-aging necklace Melisandre wears in Game of Thrones isn’t real either.)
But that’s okay, right?
As long as we live long, happy, and healthy lives, who cares how wrinkly our faces will get? Each line tells a story. We physically become our own storybooks.
Plus elephants have wrinkles, and they’re one of the most gorgeous and loved animals out there.
In a perfect world, we would all find our soulmate who we could happily live out our lives with and grow old together.
This person would love to wake up beside our wrinkly faces everyday. They would tell us our smile lines are extra smiley and that our liver spots look divine. And we would to the same in return.
But this isn’t really a perfect world, is it?
One woman found that out the hard way when she asked her husband what’s been bothering him lately.
Posted on Reddit in the /relationship_advice subreddit, a 31-year-old woman revealed that her husband had been acting really strangely. She chalked it up to work stress, but eventually she became so bothered by his emotional distance (and him waking her up one night in tears) that she begged him to tell her what was wrong.
As it turns out, she was the problem. Or more specifically, her face.
“Would you ever consider getting Botox?” her husband of six months asked her.
Yes, you read that right. These people are newlyweds. Just six months ago, they were saying “I do” and now he’s saying, “I do, but I have a few suggestions.”
“In my mind, every time he looked at me, he was judging me and thinking I was some hideously wrinkled creature.”
Understandably, the woman was devastated after learning her new husband has been silently grappling with her looks, unsatisfied with her smile lines and wrinkles. She tried to forget about it but a few weeks later he brought up Botox again and admitted, “It [expletive] me up to see you laugh or smile.”
Well no worries there, she won’t be doing much of either anymore.
“After a moment of silence I told him I thought we have no choice but to divorce.”
She told her husband that when she looks at him, she sees perfection. So why doesn’t she deserve the same?
This poor woman had her entire world rocked and has likely developed some insecurities about herself that she didn’t have before. What’s worse than having someone you love and trust point out the things that they think are “wrong” with you?
It’s safe to say the honeymoon is definitely over.
The woman went on to write that if this is how her husband feels about her when she’s 31, their future together looks awfully grim.
Which is totally fair. She’s so young now – how will he feel when she’s actually aged? And also, we would love to know what he thinks will happen to him someday. Does he think he’s just immune from Father Time?
“I don’t want Botox. I’ve always wanted to age naturally and comfortably in my own skin.”
At the end of her post, the woman wrote about how she loves to laugh and smile, and about how she’s always been told her smile is her best attribute.
“I like myself too much to live the rest of my life constantly feeling under the microscope of my husband, the man who is supposed to love and protect me,” she wrote.
Reddit was unanimous in letting the woman know she deserves better.
“He needs to accept you as you are wrinkles or not,” one user commented. “Seeing your woman look at you and genuinely smile just for the sake of seeing you and being around you is generally the best feeling ever, what is this guy on?
“If you get Botox, what part of his face do you get to change?” another user asked, basically reading all our minds.
There’s been no update yet as to whether the couple actually went forward with a divorce.
But seriously, we can’t see a single reason for this woman to stay. Get out while you can and go find someone who appreciates you for you!
And maybe throw all his stuff in the garbage while you’re at it. Just an idea.
