Your partner and your BJD...

I really love that everybody's partners seem mostly supportive. I recently found bjd's and bought one. He's obviously horrified at the price and he thinks some of them are creepy but the ones I show him, that I like, the only things he dislikes is the wig or the eyes which as we all know is changeable. Especially since he's looking at company stock photos. He doesn't outright despise them though (except the price) as we also collect nendoroids, figmas and 1/8 pvc statues. I also imagine he will get into helping me design clothes for them at some point because regardless of what he says he does have a lot to say about what people wear and even buys me clothes way more than I buy me clothes. So we'll see.

 

I got my girlfriend of almost two years into this hobby, so, needless to say, she's very supportive. ^^ She owns one doll, and we often go outside together to take some photos of our dolls. We also sometimes spend our days giving our dolls new face-ups, and she helps me with sewing. She also has knitted my dolls numerous beanies and pairs of socks! ^^

 

I really love reading these!
My boyfriend (of 4 years) is extremely supportive of the hobby, although he's not always happy about how much I spend on them... but really I don't blame him! He's helped me buy 2 out of my 4 dolls, we both usually come up with half and it makes paying much easier on both of us! He likes my dolls personalities, and always comments on how cute they are. He's also accompanying me to my first doll meet this July! He also likes to pose them doing silly things, like picking each others noses, or I'll leave the room with them facing straight forward and come back seeing their heads turned all the way around and facing the wall. It's all fun, and I'm happy he's so supportive!

 

i was married for 5 years when i got my first doll, at first hubby thought the doll i was thinking of purchasing was 72 inches...which would creep the best of us out i'd assume, but when the package arrived and the misunderstanding was cleared up [72 cm, not inches] then you could see he was relieved. he's always been very supportive though ^.^

 

Oh boy! Well, my fiance doesn't quite understand all of the terms yet but when I explain what I'm doing or what this thing I need to buy is, he gets it but isn't excited about it.
When it comes to the dolls themselves, he thinks some of them look really cool. He's always jumping in to lend a hand when I'm struggling with something doll related. He was the one who unboxed my little Jade. I was sick in bed, he just came in to the bedroom holding her already out of her box. He's the one that helped with her restringing(we were doing it wrong, white knuckles and pinched fingers all around!) and he's going to help with her blushing. I think she's growing on him because he keeps saying how cute she is and he gave her his stuffed baby seal keychain to hold.

We're saving for another doll for Christmas and he's pretty excited about that. I think already having beloved characters helps a lot with that. The doll becomes that longtime "friend" roleplay character you've had, so naturally you form an attachment because it's like seeing them come to "life", so to speak.

 

My girlfriend (of almost five years now) was the one that got me into BJDs ....slowly mind you. She even posted on this very thread XD While at the time I was planning on waiting until I got a job to buy my first BJD I've managed to order two a few months later with my casual job

Once they arrive I'm sure both of our dolls will become an awesome joint interest of ours, if anything having two different kinds of dolls around will add to the variety of our photos and subsequent stories. In short: crazy doll shenanigans will ensue!

 

My BF also approves my dolly collection (: he even said that he'd gift me one when we get out of college

 

My boyfriend is supportive and very understanding. He's an odd person and he doesn't really think it's all that weird. He has $300+ items so he understands the money. He does find them a bit creepy but cool. He's a very honest person.

 

My boyfriend tends to roll his eyes and sigh when I go squee over my dolls, and then smile in the same way he smiles when our puppy does something half irritating and half cute. He paid half of my Shaun and is completely fine with me randomly presenting doll sized pants I just finished. He's also said that I could spend my money in many ways that would be indefinitely worse. So all in all, he doesn't love my dolls but is happy for me nonetheless.

 

I went to a doll meet up and took some pictures to show F. He asked some questions and then I left my Freya out where he could see her just to get him used to the idea.

 

My gf (of 5 years) was the one who really introduced me to the hobby... and now we have our own little doll family of five. XD
I think I can say she's pretty supportive. XD

 

My boyfriend was the one who introduced me into the doll hobby, actually, with his DC Queena and various other play line dolls. Now I have a doll I'm currently customizing as well as other non bjds. We're very supportive of each other and we just recently went to a doll meet together.

 

hmmm.. at first my husband was shocked with the price, but lately, he already accepted it ( HAVE TO ACCEPTED!! ) LOL
well now he help me take a picture with my dolls and the props
sometimes print me the backdrops , and arrange my diorama

well i can say he is very supportive this lately

 

My husband is very supportive (and encourages me), he bought me my first doll as he knew how much I wanted one so on my birthday he surprised me with a minifee shushu, he's bought me 2 dolls this year for my birthday (amongst other things) and has shown a real interest in dolls himself. He's bought a couple of heads to practice faceups, he bought himself an obitsu which arrived the other day and he's keen to get himself a dollfie dream and/or a larger obitsu (he got a 27cm). He's always sending me links to dolls and things he thinks I'll like, I can see him getting himself 2 or 3 dolls in the near future (I may even buy him one for his birthday). Our daughter also loves dolls she has been collecting all sorts of dolls for years, with all the different brands she has (MH,EAH, etc) she must have at least 200 dolls and recently bought herself a couple of hujoos and wants to move onto something bigger soon (I think she will likely sell her old dolls and buy a few BJD's).

 

My partner of 7 years ... tolerates them. I think it's mainly because of the price of them, so I don't mention their prices anymore. Saying that I never whinge whenever he spends £300+ on a guitar or movie figures/statues ... I'm hoping he will like the Minifee I've ordered as she will have big bosoms :p

 

I've never imagined my boyfriend would be so encouraging about my dolls. The price surprised him a lot, but I remember having a huge dilenma whether I should buy my first doll or not, and he said I should give it a try. Right now I only have a tiny doll, but he thinks she's really cute. He always does funny things with her wig, making her stand on 1 leg, and of course helping me a lot in photography, as I have no clue about it, and afterwards he's doing the photoshopping. :3 It makes me really happy! ^^

 

Happy news on this subject for me: my boyfriend is now in the doll hobby!
He had never heard of bjd until I showed him mine when we were first becoming friends. When we first started dating, he would go to lots of doll meets with me and tell me which of the girls he liked.
At a doll meetup in May, he instantly fell in love with a doll there and purchased her from Mandarake right on the spot.

Now he's already contemplating his second girl. It's amazing watching him enjoy this as much as I do!

 

Oh my husband is a sweetie.....he likes when I'm happy and dolls make me happy. He's so supportive

 

I am married with a daughter. When I started this hobby, my daughter is 2 years old. Initially, I thought to myself, will my husband like me collecting dolls because majority of BJD will cost around USD300 for the ones from Korea and Japan and even with the ones from China, I am looking at the budget of at least USD200. So, I told my husband about my interest and surprisingly, he agreed, he allowed me to collect dolls I feel touched because he told me that so long as I love this interest, he will support what I love We had mini doll exhibitions and gatherings every year and he helped me with my props and he gives opinion on the suitable type of prop to make for my dolls so that it matches the dress ups and theme that I had in mind~

 

My fiance is super supportive of it! He always listens to me talk about dolls, and he gives me his opinions on my project ideas. And... I'm not going to lie, he funds it, too. ^///^ But he doesn't mind one bit -- as long as I'm happy, he loves doing it.