Our hobby to our wife

[johnyrotten]

44 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

They also understand that trying to run a man's life is the surest way to make one who's worth having start looking for a way out.

Absolutely 💯 %. I'm far too bull headed to put up with that kinda thing, and as I get older, I don't have the energy for it. I'm grateful my wife isn't that way. 

[slusher]

There a a woman out there but finding one is harder in todays world..

[Bugatti Fan]

It's one thing having someone who either hates of dislikes your hobby.  You know where you stand with them and can react accordingly. Eventually !    Just surprises me though how many let themselves get drawn into a situation like that in the first place.     Love is blind etc.  ??

As for passive disinterest, that's a difficult one as you just don't know what is going on in their minds.   Better that than outright animosity towards what you do I suppose.

Ace' s last post pretty much is right on the button with regard to having someone who has their own sense of security, their own creative interests and not needing  through their own insecurity  to be a look at me prima donna!

 

Edited May 7 by Bugatti Fan

[bobss396]

My girlfriend supports my modeling. She asks to see what I'm working on.

She helps me sell at shows and sees models on the contest tables. By now she knows what is good and what is not.

I could have used this support 30 years ago.

[bobss396]

On 5/6/2025 at 2:56 AM, Bugatti Fan said:

Marry any woman who dislikes your hobby no matter what interest you have is signing up to a life of misery.

This is what I started to realize. I'd tell her that me and the models are one combined unit. I am the models, the models are me.

Some women don't like to see the husband having fun. My brother's wife is also one of those.

Being largely single again and living mostly with just the cat for daily company, I am very content. 

[Radretireddad]

My wife of 36 years last month makes no effort to appreciate the value of anything that isn’t absolutely practical, so I do get the predictable eye roll whenever I mention that I’m in need of something hobby related. She does know she can incentivize me to do things for her family by bribing me with a trip to the hobby shop. Before I retired and still had some spending money, my stash grew by two to three kits a month with her okay. These days I’m quite content to build what I have on hand (around 150 or so kits) and have only bought one or two kits since the first of the year. Radretiredmom’s only nonnegotiable is no stinking up the house with paint or chemicals so it’s strictly acrylics for me which I’ve actually come to prefer. She usually has no problem with my occasional requests for paint and supplies.

[bamadon]

She has hers and I have mine.  Neither objects to the other so it works out just fine.