Why should I even try to stop?

Someone wanted inspiration to stop pulling.

Here some (from someone who has been pull-free for 17 months)  (at 28/2/98)

It is wonderful to wear your hair ANY way you want. You can walk in the wind without worrying, actually loving it You don’t hate yourself every time you look in the mirror. You don’t hate yourself (full stop)

You can have your hair permed, cut, have a blow wave, and really treat yourself at the hairdresser, without wondering what she is thinking, and worrying that she ‘will see’.

Your husband and kids can touch your hair without you snapping at them.

You can swim whenever you want, without having to make stupid excuses everytime.

You believe people when they tell you that they love you.

You can love yourself.

There are just so much more – it is really wonderful!

I can just encourage all to really do anything and everything to become pull free.   It is really worth it!

Just wanted to add that I notice that I like not seeing any hair on the floor these days. I like not having to vacuum and pick up my hair off the carpet or seeing it on my kids clothes or the bathroom floor or on a cup or on my teeth etc.. etc..

My own personal situation is that my hair is much thinner than it was many years ago. But for the first time in a year I do not have to darken in the bald spots. With the use of hair coloring for the gray my head looks full. I don't have black under my finger nails for the first time in forever, and I was able to let someone braid my hair last week because I have come far enough now to not be afraid that people will see a bald spot.

I'm growing my hair back simply so that in six months I can swim, I can go in the rain, I can have wind through my hair, I can make out with ppl (and other *stuff* :P!), I can get up and go, wash 'n go, I can go to a salon, I can stay overnight at ppls houses, I can have ppl stay over at my house,I can meet net.friends, I can worry about stuff other than my hair, and stop being late places cause I was fixing my hair, and Ican spend the time doing homework or running errands instead of fixing my hair, and I can cut down on hairspray costs! That's why

Because I would love to wear mascara and have beautiful eyes again. Because I would love to look my husband right in the eyes during intimate times and not be afraid he is looking at my bald eyes..because I would love to wear contacts again and not be afraid that people are looking at my eyes and wondering why I don't have any eyelashes...