Your partner and your BJD...

My boyfriend likes my doll He understands my hobby and he likes watch my Carina
But he has got one rule - doll can not be more important than he

 

I am very lucky, my partner is very supportive with my hobby :0) even if it seems to take sometimes a bit too much of my time :0)

 

My sig other accepts my hobby, but doesnt take part in it. He picks on my dolls alot and calls them gay.....But its okay. Lol

 

My partner actually recently got into dolls too! So I lucked out in that department. I've only previously been with one other girl who enjoyed dolls at all, much less wanted to be part of the hobby. It's my roommates I have to win over, and I've got one who's fallen in love with a doll recently. So soon, the whole house will give in!

 

My boyfriend is curious about them, though he does think some of my bigger ones are a tad "creepy" - but that doesn't exactly bother me. I used to think some BJDs were creepy, too!

 

My bf doesn't care. He knows I like them and he thinks I'm strange for liking them but he doesn't make me sell them or says he hates them. The only time he disaproves of them is when I try to buy stuff for them when I clearly need to buy stuff for myself. Which is understandable.

 

My husband lets me buy my dolls, and he lets me talk his ear off about them, but he doesn't care about them himself. He prefers not to be seen in pjblic with them, but he will hold one if I ask if he happens to be with me. But he holds them much the same way a husband holds a purse while his wife is putting on her coat. Like, no this thing isn't mine.

 

My husband is really supportive of my hobby. He even "encouraged" me to buy another bjd as the one I had looked lonely! That said, he does think two or three is enough. It's not a money thing, he just thinks a couple look more arty.

 

This is how I know I've found the right guy. An actual conversation from last night:
Me: "So there might be a BJD convention in the area sometime next year--"
BF interrupts: "Oh, we are totally going to that!"

I didn't even know what to say.... I've never had a sig other who supports the hobby. The guy I was with when I started the hobby tolerated it (barely) but called my dolls wastes of money. He said they "just sit there" and I don't "do anything with them."

 

Ive been with my boyfriend for about 5 years and began the BJD hobby about 4 years ago and he's always been really supportive. I'm really lucky actually because in the last year he's really gotten enthusiastic about them, researching a bit and even getting excited about going to a BJD section of a convention we went to while on holiday earlier this year :P plus, he just bought his first doll and since she arrived he has been posing her and dressing her up at least once a day, and in general just being happy to walk into the room and see her there ^^ So I would say he's very supportive with my hobby, just as I am with his other hobbies

 

It'll make 5 years at the end of this month with my boyfriend, but my first doll is a about the same age. I carried her head around for a while while I worked on her faceup, which I'm sure weirded him out, but he's mostly always been indifferent. I think he likes that they make me happy, hates the price, but tolerates them. He's getting me a doll for christmas and he knows how excited I am about it, although she's already arrived to him and he was a little alarmed that she was anatomically correct.

He's basically just very rational. He buys guitars, which are very expensive, and that's what he likes. So you like it, you invest, you enjoy. He just thinks I've bought a few too many...

 

The Other Guy is a little creeped out by dolls and thinks I'm weird for even having a doll.

Except the day I got a wig for my doll he looked at it critically and said "That's not really the look I pictured for her." Every once in a while he wanders past her and says "Really? That shirt?" or something to that effect. So I don't even know....

 

My boyfriend is not really for the hobby, but he also would never tell me he thinks it's a waste of time. His exact words are "It's a lot of money." which I brush off a lot of the time because he is really into TCG's so that actually is a really expensive hobby too He's already spent thousands of dollars on those cards and I have spent like $300 on my one doll so far which it will be a while before I can afford another one (stupid holidays ) so I find that he has no room to talk about what is "too expensive"

 

My boyfriend doesn't care either way. He specifically doesn’t like one of my dolls but he's bought some things for the other one. Money wise I spend more on my kimono hobby and sometimes he'll have an objection to me buying more. ^^; I think he's only fine with the doll hobby because it's not as expensive as the kimono hobby.

 

My boyfriend doesn't care. He makes jokes about them sometimes. He's not bothered by them at all. I don't think anybody I know (that matters to me) cares that I have them.

 

My boyfriend doesn't think much of my doll. He thinks it's a bit creepy but he accepts that it's my hobby and that it makes me happy to have dolls. :3

 

I'm lucky, I think! My fiancee is the one who actually got me into the whole BJD hobby. We fawn over dolls and cute doll clothes together. We both also make doll jewelry, though she's the only one who does sewing, so she makes clothes. It's fun to talk about ideas for jewelry or clothes together! Neither of us gets jealous about it, because we both understand each other and the hobby pretty well.

 

I have the luck that my boyfriend accepts my hobbies and even share. Although he's not really into BJDs, he admires and enjoys it as much as me, like taking pictures or dress our dolls.

 

My boyfriend doesn't mind... though he's scared to death of breaking mine XD. I think it's cause he knows I'm a little crybaby. He is pretty accepting... he's even getting me a souldoll zenith Kagel (my dream doll_ for Christmas. I told him not too but he said he'd do it anyway. Anything that makes me happy is fine. ANYTHING! Sometimes a boyfriend can me too supportive.

 

My husband is not a doll lover, but he supports my hobby. He loves taking photos for my dolls when we go travelling.