If I get a bald spot at the back I will reconsider. The family tradition, or physiology, or what-have-you, is to recede at the front but retain the crown. I have a widow’s peak.
It’s so weird. I realize that a widow’s peak is technically a form of balding, but at gut level I never see it as being within that category; it’s just proper guy-hair to me, an iconic sign of male adulthood like being a silverback among gorillas. Yet I’ve talked with guys who have widow’s peaks who consider themselves as having balded and are self-conscious about it, and I don’t get it, because to me it looks so absolutely normal and right that even having to have a name for it seems a bit much! Personally, I would trade my bald crown for a widow’s peak in a heartbeat.