Your partner and your BJD...

My boyfriend has been very good about the dolls. He doesn't quite get the appeal but he gets that they make me happy. Since he also has some expensive hobbies like re-enactements, he hasn't bugged me about the price. In fact he's even said that in our house I can have a doll/sewing room while he has an armory/room for his re-enactement stuff. On the amount of dolls, he said he's fine with me having one for each room!

 

Thus far my gf has been very supportive of my bjd obsession. It was her idea that I pick up a new hobby to keep my mind off of some hard personal issues I am currently working through. I know that she thinks the whole doll thing is at least a little bit weird because she has never liked dolls much, but she is 100% supportive of me. And when I asked her what she thinks about bjds she said she “likes them because they make me happy”. She has even offered to buy me some clothes and build me some furniture for my upcoming birthday.
I am very fortunate.

 

My husband is very supportive of my hobby eventhough he sometimes lovingly call me 'childish'. He likes the dolls and has actually bought two of them as a Christmas present for me, imagine that he even made lovely cards with pictures of the dolls since the dolls arrived after Christmas.

And btw he doesn't mind that there a piles of bjd clothing in the middle of the living room floor...

 

My husband is very supportive, very very supportive. He has purchased dolls for me as gifts, and regularly gives me doll-related items for major holidays. He knows the names of all my dolls and their sculpts, plus he tries to keep up with who I have planned and who I just really like. He's gotten to the point that I can give a list of outfits for a Christmas wishlist and he can guess what doll each outfit would be for with a 98% accuracy. Now that's love! He respects the money that goes into them as well as the effort, even if he himself never want a doll or finds them interest on their own. He has flatly said that he holds no interest beyond me and my dolls. He keeps track of my doll hobby enough that I can't sneak in even the smallest doll without him noticing, and some dolls couldn't get a new outfit without him going "hm." It's really very cute.

 

Ive recently entered a new relationship and im really happy with the way my SO responds to my hobbies Typically I keep to myself and keep my dolls secret... its only when im buying a new doll and im bursting at the seams with excitement that i bring them up lol. Since the hobby is a big part of my life i casually mentioned them at the beginning of the relationship and he instantly took on a "whatever makes you happy" approach. A few months later i mentied that my dolls were expensive.. that ive spent up to $900 on just one and he went "..WHYYY??" then that was it! I think he realized that this is my hobby and i support his.. now he doesnt even bat an eye but lets me ramble when im excited (like when i discovered KID Irene and christmas sales coming up!) So even though he takes no personal interest, he supports me and thats all i really need XD

 

Well, at first i didn't care if he liked it or not (been together for 3 years this october) then he realized the beauty in the dolls (i think i fell inlove with him once again when he said that) and though he likes cars and doesn't freak about dolls he agress that my dolls are beautiful and likes browsing them with me (he also agree's that Black Jude from dollmore is a pretty doll ^^ my biggest wish)
so he's interested, not a doll freak like me but healthy interest.

 

David is a bit creeped out by Shai and Tulipe, but he instantly started playing with Mori when I deboxed her x)
he also tags along on my photo excursions in the forest, and has ideas about it.
so I guess... he's a closet person. he'd never get one of his own, but he's definitely supportive of my hobby in different ways.

 

My partner doesn't particularly like dolls, but he doesn't mind them either. I show him pictures of BJD's every now and then and he even thinks some of them are pretty. ^-^

 

I'm single, not dating, no prospects. lol. But... while it would be great to find someone who actually liked my dolls... I don't really care if they do or not. However, should I get involved with anyone, they MUST at least be accepting. My "kids" were here first.

 

My boyfriend has been putting up with my growing interest pretty well and ever since I showed him Soom's Chrom Bane of Wood, he's been pouting that it was a limited edition doll because he wants him really badly now (we're probably going to work together to make a visually similar doll in the future, if we can find all the parts). He also likes stuff like the Maple Town toys that we both grew up with, so he's interested in some of the anthro dolls, as well. So I'm happy I can bombard him with links to dolls or heads I think he'd like!

 

I think that is so adorable. My boyfriend said he likes them but he is afraid to get one because where I live is very close minded. He is afraid of being called gay.

 

My girlfriend said my doll looks like a gremlin. Hahaha. I thought it was really funny. She likes how enthusiastic I am about it and thinks it's a cool hobby.

 

My hubby allows me to have them, but they're not allowed to be pointed at him. :p

 

My husband supports my hobby. He knows how much they mean to me and buys them for me when he can. He also gives me his opinion and feedback on the ones he likes and why. LOL

 

My boyfriend has a measure of indifference about them. He likes to listen to my best friend and I discuss dolls because he finds it fascinating to listen to, but doesn't seem to particularly care one way or another beyond that. He's generally very accepting of all my hobbies -- Gunpla, Zoids, Pokemon, etc. Dolls are no different to him, despite the price.

 

I'm just getting into the hobby, but my husband of a year actually thinks they're kind of neat, especially hot they're fully customizable. He's really supportive of me wanting to expand my artistry into learning to do face-ups. He's seen my friends dolls, and only reaction has pretty much been "Dear Jesus how do you carry him?!" (Her dolls are 70cm)

 

Nah, my bf thought if was pretty awesome. But all of my family hates BJD. As soon as they saw a bjd in a huge box they were like EEK!

 

My boyfriend, along with my family members that know about my new hobby, totally accept it as a part of who I am. They mostly understand because of the fact that I was into virtual communities for a long period of time and they kind of thing of it as a 3D version of that.

I asked my boyfriend recently what he thought about my doll and the hobby and he said he thinks of it as a creative outlook for myself and just finds it to be something I enjoy, so he enjoys it too. Funny thing is I think he loves Athena as much as I do. He likes moving her around, picking her up and setting her on his lap and stuff like that. It's really cute!

 

My husband is super supportive and is often the one who pushes me to make the purchases I am afraid financially to make. He usually helps me pick dolls and has even expressed an interest in owning a couple himself.

 

My husband loves my dolls. I use them to decorate for holidays, changing scenes and clothing, swapping out dolls. My husband always notices. Sometimes he will add something himself to see if I notice.