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Falling out with your dolls? (Un-bonding!)

Dec 26, 2013

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    1. I'm having problems bonding with my newest doll, Melissa... I hope I'll be able to get over it by fixing her eyebrows, otherwise I'll just have to change her character.
       
      #41 Bluescent, Apr 24, 2014
    2. I fell in love with a 20cm Elfdoll Hana Devil, but after losing his pillow and shoe while shopping for things for such a small doll, I became too afraid to take him anywhere for fear of losing things again. Luckily for me, the craft store I frequent knew me, so they found the pillow and shoe and held onto it until I came back there to get something, but after that, I kind of let him sit. The poor thing got dusty due to me getting my first SD and realizing that I love SDs and larger dolls.

      I eventually put him up for sale, and he went to a tiny doll lover who had over 92 tinies at the time, and the last pics I saw of him she was spoiling him. I'm glad I was able to sell her a grail doll, and I was able to find out (the hard way) that I love large BJDs best!

      Now I'm saving for a 72cm body for one of my MNM heads, and will hopefully be putting yet another SD on layaway! :)

      Ryu
       
      #42 Ryuichi Sakuma 13, Oct 29, 2014
    3. I've had a couple dolls that I bought with a specific character in mind. I will adore the sculpt and the doll, but the frustration and the money loss makes me "un-bond" with them. I usually just get to the point where I just sell them...
       
      #43 ToniaHowardxoxo, Oct 30, 2014
    4. All my dolls are characters from my stories so I need them to shell those characters. I've a couple that I am wondering about changing (mainly the bodies - I switch those out all the time) because I'm not sure they are the best fit for the characters. As for bonding, people can bond w/anything - fact. Bond w/cars, w/pets, w/art, w/places.... I have several dolls I've bonded w/as the doll as well as the character, while others are purely utilitarian (they shell the character). I need them however (to do my stories). So, it is complicated. I have yet to 'unbond' w/one of my dolls that I really love.
       
      #44 Teleri, Oct 30, 2014
    5. This is interesting!

      I have had dolls that I do not bond with, and I have dolls that I bond with to an extreme.. but I think I have only had two that I fall in and out of bonding with.

      For some reason I am feeling this way with my Fairyland's (MNF and LTF)I think its because they're so off from what I was hoping they'd be.. I feel that that is why I keep going in and out of attachment. It's like I love their sculpts, but not their styles and face-ups. It's the only way I can explain it !:pout:
       
      #45 Jet-Stream-Jumper, Oct 30, 2014
    6. I don't really bond with them as such. I either have time for a certain doll or I don't and if I find that the latter is more than the former then I sell them on! I'm truly heartless, oh well :)
       
      #46 beatnik, Oct 30, 2014
    7. Unbonding definitely happens. When it does, the dolls go into their boxes for a while until I miss them again. :)
       
      #47 Euphie, Oct 30, 2014
    8. I'm having problems trying to stay connected to the dolls I have ordered due to the very long waits for them to arrive. There are a lot of choices out there and I find that I begin to get interested in another company.

      Recently a weird thing happened to me with my LeekeWorld Mabel. I never liked her default face up because it was so pale and washed out looking to me. So I wiped it off and gave her a new one which turned out ok. But it changed her personality too much for me and sort of freaked me out. She had been a sweet, vulnerable young teen who went to a more confident, cheerleader type with her new face up. So off it came! Now she's faceless but I'm going to redo her makeup to give her more of her original innocent look - but with more color than her default face. It was a very strange realization!
       
      #48 Pony, Oct 30, 2014
    9. At first I didn't think that it was possible to 'un-bond' with a doll.. But now I'm coming to find that it is actually very possible. And it's a rather sad thing too, especially when you start out with all these plans for that doll, then those plans don't happen... My poor girl has been stuck just sitting there for a while, as I don't give her the attention that she deserves, and I feel really bad for doing so.
       
      #49 Kyavi, Oct 31, 2014
    10. I have collected and loved dolls for a LONG time. Decades. So yes my tastes have changed and my wants have changed as new ones have hit the market. There are many I will never part with, but sadly way too many that don't mean that much to me now. My attention has moved to more recent ones that for me are just so much more special.
       
      #50 Lee Turner, Oct 31, 2014
    11. I definitely get the un-bonding issue. Before I purchase a doll i have to visualise a character for them so that when they arrive they have a name, look and a story to build on. I do get bored with my dolls if I don't interact with them for a while, and regularly change their poses and clothes to keep my interest. I have recently sold on my first ever bjd as my tastes have evolved and I am a little surprised that I don't miss him. I bought my grail doll a few months ago and when she arrived to my amazement I couldn't bond at all with her. I think I had coveted her afar for too long and when she arrived I couldn't get excited. She doesn't match the rest in my collection and stands out. I sent her away for a face-up thinking that when she came back I would feel differently but I don't and she will sadly be sold on. I have learnt that I am better with just a few bjd which constantly evolve. I can work with a few characters but get overwhelmed when i cant give them all the attention I would like. Unless I sell an older one in place of a new sculpt I think my collection will remain fairly static now.
       
      #51 Saraht, Oct 31, 2014
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