I am married to my wife. Which is to say that I see her every day. So how does it happen that I'm not able to notice when she gets a haircut, but when we go to a parent teacher conference at my daughter's school (as we did today) the teacher compliments my wife right away on her "new haircut"? I am fortunate to be married to someone who doesn't take such things against me.
We thoroughly enjoyed our conversation with our daughter's teacher, by the way. I have nothing but positive associations with schools, whereas my wife looks back at her early childhood schooling with much pain. My wife used to be very anxious when it came to parent conferences--it took some time for me to understand the deep-seated impact of her past experiences. Happily, my daughter has led the way forward with one sparkling conference after another, and mom and dad are all smiles. Of course, noticing new haircuts also helps.
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