My wife and I are both immigrants but from different places, and our daughter keeps asking why mommy and daddy make themselves look different for work, and we realized we're both code-switching our appearance but never talked about how that affects our marriage.
More people experience this than they realize.
Marriage suffers hidden disconnection when both partners perform assimilated beauty for survival without acknowledging the shared loss.
“Where Are You with Desirability and beauty standards across cultures?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.