Naleighna Kai's Literary Cafe Magazine January 2018 New Year, New You | Page 50

Hairstory Recently, on a national television talk show, a married couple of nine years were on and the topic was all about the fact that the husband was no longer attracted to his wife because she now wore her natural hair. When he married her, she wore weaves which eventually damaged her hair to the point she had to cut it all out. What was left behind was something that sent him running out of the door, then trudging back into the house to say, “If it’s a wig, take it off.” I posted the video on my page and my FB Friends had the opportunity to sound off. Shareta Caldwell-Rippatoe: This is what happens when you don’t show the person you are with the real You. Could be hair, make-up, or how you talk. Naleighna Kai: so you’re saying it’s okay for him to now not be attracted to his wife because she has to wear her natural hair since the weave has damaged it? He didn’t marry her hair, he married HER for better or worse. He didn’t warn her that not wearing weave is a deal breaker the way some men warn that if a woman goes over a certain weight he’s leaving her. Shareta Caldwell-Rippatoe: Whether it is right or wrong, I didn’t really think about it. He feels how he feels. I was only referring to how he had no idea how his wife looked without a weave. Nine years and she has never shown him her real hair! He was used to seeing her one way all the time and without warning, she switched it up. 50 | NKLC Magazine So when you don’t talk about these things or don’t show a person who you really are, you get this very shocked response. He obviously liked her to look a certain way. While he is saying she is beautiful, her new look is not something he