How does your partner feel about your dolls?

He goes with me to doll shows and likes to talk to the vendors. The last one I was buying some doll clothes and a doll. I had forgotten to put paypal on my phone so I needed to use his. He heard the price and made a shocked look but still handed over his phone. I was surprised -so was the vendor. We asked. It turned out he thought I was buying a few knitted hats for hundreds of dollars. He didn't see the doll. I was amazed he was going to go along with it anyway. lol.

 

My husband really didn’t like the dolls at first and thought they were creepy, but he’s come around a bit and likes posing them sometimes. He’s proud of how much my sewing has improved since I starting sewing for them, and he lets me use his old clothes for fabric. Overall I’m spoiled in my relationship so I’d get what I wanted regardless, but I’m glad he’s come around to them more. He’s also offered to give them tattoos (he’s a tattoo artist) so maybe sometime I’ll let him!

 

Partner is apathetic about the dolls and figures themselves but they're fascinated by my sewing machine and sewing in general. They don't really have hobbies but most of our mutual friends do so it's not an alien mindset to them.

 

He may secretly think I have too many at this point but he’d never say anything overtly. Honestly I think I may have at least a few too many if I’m being honest.
I don’t really like to keep dolls in the bedroom usually. Occasionally I’ll bring one in and leave her in a stand on the mantel overnight if I want a first impression of something when I wake up, but that’s often when he is out of town anyway. That usually solves most any issue that might come up regarding dolls and sleep/nightmares etc. That’s probably more likely to affect me than it will him though because I often dream of my dolls and I don’t think he ever has. The atmospheric conditions here causes the stringed dolls to shift and move a lot in their poses but he’s mostly used to that and we are both a little amused by it. I think that coming across eyeless dolls when he’s not expecting it is the only thing that would still actually bother him. Some of my dolls and figures he likes much less than others but fortunately I have enough room to display those in a couple of different glass cabinets where he doesn’t really need to be directly looking at them very often.

 

He recently admitted to me that he thinks they are a bit creepy ^^ but nonetheless he said he‘s really impressed by the creative aspect around the hobby like face ups, sewing and such. And as long as they aren’t taking over our home and they stay at one place he has absolutely no problem with them.

 

Me and my girlfriend have been together since middle school, and I got into BJDs in 2016. The only times she's "upset" about my hobby is when I wont stop talking about it for hours straight, and even then it's just her asking if we can stop talking about dolls for a little bit. xD
She is very joking about it-- whenever I unstring my dolls she'll play with the parts (giving the hands high fives, etc). She clearly LIKES them, but I think it's because of how much I like them. She's very supportive, even though she's never LOVED dolls.

 

So I had an ex that was...bad situation - I won't get into too many specifics other than he's the reason I left the hobby for a while. He ruined it for me for a few years.

A few years back, I felt the urge to come back to the hobby again and I spoke to my husband about it, and talked all about the hobby and how I missed it - he encouraged me to get back into it. I went into my storage room and dug out the doll i had kept and showed it to him (with great hesitation) to see. Now? He's let me take over the largest closet in the house with my collection and lets me talk at him about the hobby and everything. He's very supportive.

 

When I first explained to him what they are he was kind of confused. He's used to them and doesn't mind them now as long as I'm financially responsible about it.

 

My husband is supportive. He doesn’t believe in stuff like dolls coming to life, so we’re good on that aspect. He’s installed lots of shelving in my doll room and our bedroom. His only request is that he doesn’t want too many in the living room; that’s fine. So the living room has my collector Integrity and Barbie dolls (about 20 dolls), the doll room has all my in-box Barbies, my Rainbow Highs and my Cabbage Patch Kids, and our bedroom has my Tonner dolls and my BJD’s, because those are the ones I actually play with. But ngl sometimes I feel like the house is getting a bit overrun with doll peeps