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"I work a second job to pay for her warmachine habit" isn't on the list, so I got close as I could.

My latest ex encouraged it. It was a bit nerve-racking when I first told her but it went over well.

Its helped me more than hurt me to tell chicks that I paint "little plastic dudes".
Don't ask me why. I'm completely baffled.

Funny how the Honey Do list tends to gravitate towards my game night . . .

She also does scrap booking and quilting. Interestingly enough, we actually share tools . . . .

My April knew absolutely nothing of the hobby before we met but now we play every week and she has an upstart little bug force of her own. I'm very proud, even if she can't paint yet.

The Strife used to paint figs and rpg (still threw dice before the boy was born), and has always been surrounded by friends who gamed, but has fallen out of it. She generally supports my plastic/metal crack habit.

Don't currently have one.

The ex was generally supportive...it got me out and about, it gave us extra excuses to go to the larger malls together (she'd get her stuff and I'd peruse the GW store), and she's an artist so she could relate to the painting.

Problem was, the FLGS met on Sundays, which got ugly during football season.

I am lucky that my wife also shares of love of expensive hobbies, she is a strong supporter of my love for plastic crack!! As a matter of fact she may start an army soon herself.

Does Hannah and her five sisters counts as a SO?

Rossko wrote:As a single guy on a Saturday morning, this thread is definitely one of the most depressing things I've read all morning.

Thanks guys .

That about says it all except now it's sunday arvo.

Unfortunately my girlfriend is one of the popular ones...

I may have to give it up :( :( (warhammer)

She hates nerds (looks down)

ಠ_ಠ

Yeah my old lady is pretty cool. She doesn't play or collect or anything but she is a painter. Occasionally she gets interested and asks to paint one of my "tiny monsters" so I tells her to pick her favorite one and go for it. She does a great job on them too and it's fun to paint together.

My wife is a World of Warcraft addict.The house has rooms filled with miniatures and miniature related stuff from many years hoarding.

I suppose it quite likely one of the reasons i am now divorced! Still both my children have followed me into the hobby so it cant be all bad! Just got to find a sane understanding women to put up with me!

For everytime she gets her hair and nails done.. I get a trip to the Hobby Store

The Missus is a good sport... if it makes me happy it makes her happy.

I asked her and she replied "doesn't mind it" so I assumed that was a "tolerates it."

Its a tradeoff.
no video games = 40K Ok


The modeling time she doesnt mind, but the all day apoc battles drive her nuts

My Girl doesn't mind I'm collecting "mini-soldiers" but really hates that I spend so much money on it.

Think I'd might go and bye here something pretty soon, perhaps she'll stop nagging a week or 2

Perhaps people can post pic's of there girl/boyfriends? Or is nobody interested

My wife is a gamer - mostly video games, but we met at a white wolf vampire larp, so she gets gaming.

She will play games every so often, generally as part of team - she likes pushing the models around and rolling dice, but the strategy part is not her thing, so as long as someone else tells her where to attack, she's happy.

She encourages me while I'm painting, and buys me models as gifts. Plus, she's currently cross-stitching me something game-related

Lady Thorne tolerates my gaming habit, understanding that I have a certain level of manic energy that focuses itself very well on detail-oriented tasks of which gaming in general and 40K specifically is full of: collecting, converting, designing, painting, displaying, etc. She appraises the occassional mini and makes color recommendations from time to time, is generally supportive without being involved.

If it wasn't gaming, she knows it would be baking, cooking, making chainmail, leatherworking, beekeeping, electronics, RC airplanes, making longbows and arrows, archery with said items, coloring hair, making jams and jellies, writing, Wing Chun, brewing mead, or any one of the hundreds of interests I happen to have from month to month. I've been into 40K solidly for a year now so I think she appreciates the consistency. Now I just have to keep it from taking over our living space...

EDIT: after viewing the results, I find it interesting that those of us with "tolerant" SO's and those without SO's are closely matched.

Lextheimpaler wrote:Mine calls them pew pews and shouts the words NERD often

Haha, I wondered where my mrs got to when I was at work! Aus seems like a long way though!

That is almost identical to what she says to me when she walks into my office at home and sees me on Dakka surrounded by IA books n' minis.

Also whenever a mysterious box appears on the doorstep addressed to me, she will pass it to me and ask if it is more warhammers! I have pointed out out the correct terms and names but warhammers covers it all appearently. She will then smirk as I grab said box off her and stomp off like the grumpy 13 year old I was 20 years ago!

Tolerate yes, mock definitely!

My wife started an Eldar army of her own today!

I am quite with the excitedness.

My girlfriend stops by the game room on Monday nights once in a while and is generally supportive of the hobby. I have a little office and if a Space Marine or paint brush strays into the living room he magically ends up back in the office...

There are total nuts who drag their sick kids to game night because their SO had to work the night shift and the little ones are just curled up on the floor feeling miserable for three hours. She can't believe this and is horrified by it (so am I), this is certainly not the majority, I play with many guys who have little ones and understandably they are usually taking care of family stuff and can't always play.

So as long as I don't put it higher than our family's health, I'm good

Not got one, only thirteen so no wife for me ^_^

She not only doesn't think it's weird, but she actively encourages me and even better, supports my hobby by paying for it.

She's an artist, and her family includes other hobbyists and collectors (model railway and kit models).

(She's the breadwinner - I'm the househubby).

In return, now and then, if she sees a model she likes, I have to get it "for her" assemble and paint it up for her.
(The last example being a valkyrie and skyshield landing pad - because they have moving parts and she likes models that DO stuff).

But she's not a gamer and never will be.
She also doesn't think much of several of the crowd I game with (but that's ok - neither do I. Very sheltered and "special" people, they are).

I voted "tolerate" even though the wife truly encourages the actual gaming and painting.

Its the mess that gets left after painting, or an all nighter with the boys that is what makes her think of throwing EVERYTHING away...

So overall its a tolerate.

It appears that the vast majority of the answers equate to shared interests and/or equality. Kinda the main ingredient in any significant relationship, I would assert.

My own SO has an artistic bent, one of the many reasons I was attracted to her in the first place. So, when I am painting my "man-Barbies" - as she so delicately puts it - she is generally working on some interesting landscaping piece.


Iechyd da!

I play, my ex plays most of my friends play... i am the token shegamer. its good for the boys to have a nerdy girl with them ^_^