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My girlfriend plays a Chaos Daemon army herself. I didn't have to do much convincing, she was already into computer gaming, fantasy and heavy metal when we first met. There is a reason I quickly knew why I wouldn't ever let her go again.

My wife is also an artist, mainly oil painting, so i think she appreciates the artistic side of what i do. She doesn't think its cool in any way though and she calls GW 'nerdworld' and laughs at me when i get excited about new figures. So i figure thats tolerating but not strictly encouraging.

Don't have it. Forever alone...

Lone Wolf baby! Possibly 'till the day I die, but I won't marry anyone who has a problem with my hobby (i.e. and therefore me).

Gone from amusement to hatred to grudging acceptance

Encourages it when I haven't done it for a while, but most of the time it is tolerating. I have tried explaining the game to her, which just goes over her head, but she actively listens and makes an honest attempt at it.

The significant other has bought a couple of units of dark eldar and has started assembling them.
Much love was felt when she said "Eldar? they look stupid" "those ones (SM) look too brutish"

My girlfriend didn't understand why I would spend hours building and painting models only to have them sit on a table and do even more "nothing". Once she saw that I genuinely enjoy playing Warhammer though, she learned to tolerate it.
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my gf looked at me and said Eldar? I though girls collected those..........so needless to say I have no Eldar at the moment

My bf got me into 40k. Now I and my girlfriends spend more time on it than him and his mates.

I really do like how "They Tolerate it" comes out first..
My girlfriend encourages the hobby, she's not into it herself, but she does like arts & crafts so she understands where I'm coming from

My gf supports it for the most part. She writes books so its part of the whole "artistic mind" to her. She comments on my color scheme and helps give me ideas and I try to do the same with her writing.

Couldnt find a better girl even if a tried.

My wife likes that i have something to do that is artistic and keeps me out of trouble but I can't speak of it in any detail lest her eyes roll back into her head and she become instantly bored.

Me ex g/f use to love the painting part of it but got mad when I bought something new to paint.

Don't have a SO but the girl i'm courting think it's a very interesting hobby

My fiancee is somewhere between hates it and encourage it.

Because I'm only home at the weekends she tends to hate it when I dust of the paint and brushes and get ready. She wants (quite understandable) me to spend more time with her than painting. So I paint when she's asleep in the morning.

But then she can say "You haven't played in a while, shouldn't you fix a game?". I guess that she can't stand all that expensive plastic just gathering dust.

And for my last birthdays she's given me tanks. Mostly chimeras, but that's fine with me!
She allso have some ideas, and to be honest some of them is useable! But when I want her opinion on the second mini for the day she simply says "frakk of, I'm tired of seeing them".
And as others have said, building dioramas in the bookshelf, not appriciated. If I'm lucky she will just let them stand there during the week and nag about it every time we speak on the phone.

And well, I've tried to get her into it, so far with no luck. She says that the painting would kill her. She tried to paint a catachan I had laying around. Took me 2 months to gather the curage to repaint it. IMHO, guardsmen doesn't look all that good in golden trousers and silver jackets...

The guardsman still look terrible, after some major repainting...

I feel pretty lucky. Not only did my significant other attend Adepticon with me (we both had a great weekend). She has also went in as partners with me on starting our own gaming shop. We are starting on ebay, but hope to be in a retail location within the next year.

My missus is also into the hobby, and unfortunately she seems to be better than me :/

Originally she hated it as she thought it was a useless waste of money, but after i bought her a box of DE Wyches she loves the hobby and routinely enjoys bragging about beating me in her first ever game.....

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I'm very lucky that practically all my hobbies including 40k are shared by my partner. It's a lot of fun seeing as we get to do them together and understand each others passion for them.

My girlfriend thinks Trygons and Saurus Warriors are "cute".

Keeping.

After almost 10 years of marriage my wife honestly just lets me get on with it, she's happy i have a hobby tbh, she encourages my painting too which is ace.
she's tried painting things but i don't think its her thing.

a m8's ex wife did try taking up the hobby with him and painted a night gobbo army.
Pink cloaks with blue flowers i kid you not.
scaryest damn gobbo army i ever saw.

Wasn't sure how to answer this, of my "partners", one plays the same games, the other is into equally expensive stuff, the others are into an equally expensive but non-craft hobby, and one of them probably doesn't even know I care for it despite our relationship

The fiancee is an artist, so she doesn't mind my painting and gaming, though she does send the random dork comment my way

It is tolerated, as long as she is not neglected lol.

my SO hates the hobby as it's time away from her. plus it's money I'm not spending on her.

My SO is a fashionista chick lit lady and dont hold any interest of my hobby but she encourage it thinking its cute with the whole - i quote "nerdy boy".

My wife is a knitter and quilter and LOVES her I pad 2. EVerytime i spend money on warhammer she gets to spend money on yarn. She has alot of yarn.

Not only does my SO encourage it but I've turned her onto the painting side of 40k!! Shes just helped me with some swooping hawks and is now eyeing up some scourges!!!

She's a keeper alright

One time the encourages it and looks like she's really interested, and the other time she says something like ''those stupid dolls are all you think about/care about''.

Women are weird...

Me and her play 40k all the time. We both love it.