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The wife partakes... the only thing keeping me sane is that I play better than she paints.

My SO does scrap booking so a five dollar piece of paper make my toys look cheap. This means we have equally expensive hobbys and she can't get at me about it.

My wife is somewhere between tolerate and encourages. She likes the hobby aspect and can appreciate a well-painted mini or a well made piece of terrain, but I think she'd get pretty pissed if I tried to play all day everyday.

I think she gets annoyed that I never finish projects, including minis sitting on the shelf that are supposed to be display pieces for her. :/

She tried to play back in 3rd edition and just didn't get it. I got her playing Space Hulk, though, so I'm slowly getting to her I think.

I pretty much have the ideal situation. My girl is the cashier at my FLGS! She hid a Space Hulk box for me, and when she has extra store credit she buys me guardsmen!

She likes for me to get out of the house. I go to school and work a lot. Sometimes she has to convince me to go play games on the weekend. She says it's good for me to get out.

Mine's like this exactly. If I haven't painted in awhile or gone to play a game she'll tell me to go do so. If I play too many video games I start getting lazy and she prefers this hobby to other things. She argues for me saying there are worse things guys can be into like strip clubs.

My wife plays with me.

She has Tyranids, Blood Angels, WoC, wants Dark Eldar, Skaven, plays Blood Bowl, B5 ACTA and various other wargames.

Her only line is historicals, especially WW1 and WW2, she doesn't like the idea of playing over the graves of actual people.

So aye other than that, anything.

Much like someone else that replied; my wife met me when I was not nerding it up. I've recently started back and since then the otaku jokes fly...until I start in on her handbag and shoe fetish. I have to say my hobby is much cheaper than her bag and shoe thing.... speaking of, christmas is coming soon and I'll have to buy her yearly Coach something or other...ugh, I hate shopping.

My wife used to call it my "shame" (as in shame workshop and my fevered hiding of it from most of my peers, associates etc), but would always commend me on my converting/painting effort and the 50'th little plastic man I'd shown her that evening!

However she was recently dragged into GW Hereford and came away telling me how stompa's are cute and that she wanted one. Is that an excuse to start Orks aswell?

She'd rather I sat and modelled than spent all my time shooting people on xbox live although she can feel left out when I occasionally spend a weekend playing games with friends (although she interrupted the last game of BB I played and proceeded to thrash my opponent, do a victory dance and waltz off).

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Her only line is historicals, especially WW1 and WW2, she doesn't like the idea of playing over the graves of actual people.

Yep understand that entirely, that's what keeps me sci-fi and fantasy, i know they are only games but it feels disrespectful.

My wifey has her own hobbies which take up significant time/resources, so she leaves me to my wargaming.

It's only occasionally I'll hear "Why is there a sniper in the Christmas village aiming at Santa?"

It was funnier the year I put a squad of Khorne Berzerkers assaulting the carolers, or the Sentinel behind the train station, or a Tyranid in the church, or...

Meh! We get our laughs where we can...and I personally hate the X-Mas display.

My SO is somewhere between tolerate and encourage. I was open about it from the start, kinda had to be since the work bench is currently in my bedroom. She doesnt quite understand the hobby. Thats most likely because i havent played in years, and im trying to get a whole army together to place. I do my work when she is doing her homework, so it doesnt really come between us.

She did recently follow me into a FLGS and discovered their cost, now she understands my hobby even less.

She tolerates it for now, but she's agreed to play one game with me if I'll watch Pride and Prejudice with her.

She WILL see the Emperor's light.

My girl likes "nerdy" things along the same line as me, mostly in the form of FPS video games and guns and funny internet stuff. She also used to play D&D, so she has no problems with me playing 40K, so long as I don't become obsessive I haven't tried to get her involved in it (yet), but i don't know if she'd be that into it.

When my GF moved in with me she immediately got really into the hobby. She's not interested in reading the literature or understanding it on any deep sense, but she enjoys the painting and the playing.

The galling thing is, she's been doing the hobby 7 months and she outstrips the painting skills of myself and everyone else who games with her by a mile. If she could just get a bit more confidence I am sure she could put in an entry for Golden Demon next year.

My girly "Likes to help me put little guys together"

Good thing I play Orks.

My girlfriend BARELY tolerates the hobby. Sometimes she feigns interest. Sometimes she yells that she's gonna "flush all my little men down the toilet!" I try and delude myself into thinking she will eventually come around and start playing. Maybe least space hulk, I've gotta get her foot in the door somewhere...She is a closet nerd. It's only a matter of time.

She encourages it because painting is better than playing Call of duty with EPIC surround sound. Yeah it's loud but I can totally hear when some one is running up behind me!!! She also painted the warboss and Nobs that came in the black reach set. I need her to finish so I can ebay them, they are that good.

Only 3% hate it? Man, I'm starting to think I have it rough...

Edit: Lol @ privateer! That's how it was with me... and she didn't come around. However, you can get along fine with some friendly ribbing about these kinds of things... at least that's how we get on, and I think we have a good relationship.

(It doesn't mean I don't wish she loved my toy soldiers a little more, though!)

I think that my case is somewhere between tolerates and encourages.

She thinks the hobby is rather odd but amusing and it does give me something to do in the same room while she is watching TV

My SO isn't real thrilled about the game. She's fine with me playing the game. What she's not real pleased about is the fact that the tribbles keep multiplying. Basically I'm required to have a case for every army at this point. I can't say that upsets me.

Wow... I'm depressed now... I really need to get a girlfriend...

my GF doesn't play (though she has tried, just doesn't like it) but she paints amazingly well, so she does my characters for me

She plays Blood Bowl though, and is also into roleplaying so we have a lot to share.
I'm lucky, because with one exception, everyone else I wargame/roleplay with has an other half who either barely tolerates or openly hates wargaming/roleplaying.

Methinks everyone who has a supportive other half should give them much appreciation, and help out our brethren who don't get so much support/encouragement!

My wife is tolerates, but borderline hates it. Well, I shoulden't say she hates the hobby, more like she hates the money, even if is a fraction of what we get, that goes toward it.

The game itself, and the hobby she seems on the fence. She has painted a few minis, and enjoyed it, but I don't think I'll ever get her into the game.

I never tried to hide it, but i honestly have no earthly idea how my GF/Fiance at the time (wife now) couldnt tell i was a major nerd. I had the computer with more games on it then school work (had a laptop for school tho).

warhammer books and figures all over my apt. Played WoW and everquest during my spare time...

All of a sudden after we had been engaged and living together for a month or so she just looks at me and goes. " Wow, you know, you are a huge nerd". I was like yup!!!

Now she encourages it. I talk to her before going crazy on purchases (like my 300$ army addition yesterday). She does Mary Kay tho so she is normally at meetings or seminars 1-2 weekends a month and every monday night so thats when i mainly play!

I belive mine SO hates my hobby, I never figures how my hound munched down the Defiler I had bought for my now deceased CSM chapter. Or why paint seems to disaper from time to time

Ever thought about storing your supplies and minis in cabinets kept shut by dial locks when you're not using it? Better yet, make each cabinet door our of plexiglass so she still has to look at them

My "Better Half" tolerates my gaming habits, but has yet to show any real interest in them!

Girlfriend loves when i paint, encourages me and shes amazing (: She supports me in the hobby

Anyone else select the 'I dont have a SO' option rather determinedly and angrily?

Haha

Mine tolerates in a strong sense of the word. As in, she thinks it's ridiculous that I play with 'action figures' (wut.) but she has no problem with it.

Well, she did threaten to take all my stuff and sell it when I texted her one day like: 'hey, so what do you do if your finger won't stop bleeding?'

Needless to say, discovering I needed 6 stitches in the hospital and had to stay there 6 hours while they figured out if I hit a nerve because of my 'action figures' doesn't endear her to the hobby. :p (If you were wondering, I was inneffectively using a pocket knife to hollow out little nooks in my dreadnoughts so I could magnetize the arms. Knife folded back on my finger, SHINK! Blood for the Blood God!)