Hi Felicity
Why do we all find it so difficult to accept?(I include myself in the "we").Deafness I mean. After all, when we finally decide to do something about our hearing loss the reaction from partners, friends etc is usually "Hooray!At long last he's realised!" (Or at least it was in my case).
Even though I know that wearing a hearing aid does not give me back the hearing I once had, the sight of a BTE hearing aid in my right ear gives other people (who don't know me) a bit of clue that I might be deaf/hard of hearing.
Oh, and at last I feel justified at having the subtitles on when we (my partner and I) watch TV!!
Ian