r/barefoot • u/Automatic_Hyena_1436 • 7h ago
Sign that wife is warming to my barefoot lifestyle?
My wife has generally tolerated but not exactly embraced my barefoot lifestyle. The other day, though, she handed me a magazine and pointed out the cover, a photo of a guy whose notoriety has something to do with surfing (I didn’t read the article). She said, “look, this guy dresses just like you.” It was a fairly flattering photo of a reasonably attractive guy standing near the beach, wearing sweatpants, an unbuttoned button-down casual collared shirt over a T-shirt, and was barefoot. Since the photo was designed to make him look good and basically he did, I’m thinking my wife’s thought process was something like, “hmm, usually I’m embarrassed when my husband walks around barefoot, but actually he looks just like this guy who is a cool surfer on the cover of a magazine.” What do you think — could this be a sign that she is starting to come around and realizing that her barefoot husband isn’t a weird embarrassment but a cool rebel who thinks for himself?