Your partner and your BJD...

I've been with my significant other for 5 years now and we're engaged to be married next summer. I'd spoken up here and there about wanting to shell my beloved muse into a doll, but only wistfully with no real intent to go after it due to the fact that I was in college full time 3 hours from home and after that stuck in a low-end retail job that couldn't even allow me to pay my student loans. He thought it would be a neat idea, if a bit creepy. He dislikes dolls generally, but will admit to finding BJDs fascinating and really quite impressive with the amount of customization and things people do with them (especially after showing him some extremely well done Sephiroth and Dante cosplays, haha).

I'm not really sure what it was last year that got me nosing around again in what was meant to be just window shopping and daydreams. I'd gotten a better job and was paying my bills and I came across my grail doll. The hubby-to-be placated, soothed and listened to my upset rambling as best he could when she was out of my reach. Going to Otakon I couldn't get the wish out my head head as BJDs were everywhere. As the grail got away, I started to save after we talking it out.

He was very supportive, knowing it had been a dream of mine to shell my girl into a tangible form for me to handle and a few months later the first part of her came home. Shortly, not even a month, after Iplehouse stated their move and pulled a sale up and I flailed around until I managed to get her other half home. And now, two months from then, I have the grail head sculpt coming home blank to be custom painted and perhaps even better than the limited face-up was to me as a separate expression.

Through it all, he encouraged me to either make up my mind and take the plunge or don't (I wiffled a LOT because of cost and knowing he and some friends would be the only ones to know I had the dolls, my family would never let me hear the end of it when I have such hefty loans I could be putting that extra earned money towards despite me always making my payments on time or early) and went so far as to give me aid in each one of them to bring them home. He was also there to help me go through the vast many companies and their sculpts to find the right one and the right body. He is also aware and involved in helping me select the sculpt that will be her significant other someday down the line, which happens to be his character, even if the doll is more than likely going to be mine. He frequently points out things he likes and doesn't like for either when I'm idly browsing and loves the photography I've started to do with them. It makes him happy to see me trying to find my inspiration for my art again and he knows how important and close to me my muse is and will always be, so he continues being very supportive and bugs me about when I'll bring them out.

Long post is long, sorry >,>;

Reader's Digest Version: My fiancee, despite thinking at times they're a little creepy due to disliking dolls in general, is very supportive of my hobby so long as I go about it responsibly.

 

My boyfriend isn't a fan of the price, but other than that he's very supportive. As long as he isn't spending the money he's ok with the hobby. I talk to him a lot about different dolls and comparing molds, and figuring out which one has more of the look I'm trying to find. He doesn't really get it, but when you spend about 50$ a video game, he doesn't really have much room to complain.

 

My husband is really supportive. I don't want to say he tolerates my hobby, but I don't think he really "likes" it either. He doesn't dislike it though. It's a strange combination. Mostly he's happy that I have something that makes me so happy. So he's happy cuz I'm happy and probably happier that I very rarely buy new dolls (have had my first and only for about 3 years and am just now paying for a second doll on layaway) so I don't spend all of our spending money on MY hobby. He gets just as much to spend on what he wants.

 

I'm really happy to have a supportive boyfriend (together for 4 years, would be married if we weren't in college and broke lol). I just started researching BJDs about 6 months ago and purchased one. He thinks they're a little weird (I was even creeped out by them at first), but his main complaint is that the males are too feminine haha. I just tell him that super manly dolls look strange to me (no offense if you like super manly BJDs, of course), and that I like them to be more delicate and beautiful because they're works of art to me. I'm glad he supports me getting male dolls, they're the main ones that I'm interested in. He's slowly helping me plan a face-up for my DS Saint, even. I think if your significant other really loves you, they will be interested and support you no matter what

 

my partner is very bemused by my hobby, especially since he is trying to make me more girly (not that I was a tomboy, but certainly goth). He doesn't like that they're so expensive, but he does appreciate the art involved with them. He also feels they bring me closer to him, in a way, since they're part of that whole girly thing he likes.

 

My boyfriend is very supportive. I've been into dolls and had them since '05. He listens when I talk about them and doesn't complain. He even lets them sit in our living room out where anyone who walked into our apt could see. Though, don't ask him what their names are..he couldn't tell you lol ^.^

 

My boyfriend don't mine my doll and sometime he giving me tips how to dress my doll.

 

My Husband is very understanding of my hobbies. He even encourages me to get doll stuff because he knows how happy it makes me. He enjoys seeing what I come up with from time to time, and takes interest when I start putting a new one together. I'm glad that he doesn't see them as creepy or anything... much.

 

I wouldn't say my guy is the most supportive when it comes to my doll habit, he think they're a bit weird, but that's mainly because there was a bad first impression... he first discovered my hobby when we ran into some of my doll friends on an outing, let's just say he wasn't that prepared for it xD
Don't actually think he's actually seen my dolls yet tbh... he'd probably be creeped out and stay well far away, can't see him bein a doll person though xD

So verdict, he's a bit creeped out but will accept that I love them to bits (pun intended)

 

My boyfriend used to be creeped out by dolls. He didn't like the glass eyes, but after a while I think he got used to it. He still thinks some of the dolls are creepy, but he doesn't tell me not to buy them, and is supportive of me purchasing them.

 

I just got married and moved in with my husband, but he doesn't really bat an eye at the dolls. He likes that I sometimes make things to sell for them (none of his hobbies are really "self-sustaining" as he calls it). He's unlikely to touch them or play with them of his own accord, but he doesn't mind my having them, and when I told him I was going to buy another he was pretty supportive. After all, he just dropped $2k on a new gaming desktop, so my little dolly purchases pale in comparison.

 

I've been with my boyfriend for about 5 years and started collecting dolls about 2 years ago He's pretty supportive he even bought me a littlefee for christmas He's a little surprised about how expensive some of them are , but he has his own hobbies (like helicopters) that he spends plenty of money on Over all he likes that I can customize them and likes looking at pictures with me sometimes. So he's pretty cool with it.

 

My girlfriend is actually creeped out by my boy. She's gotten less and less afraid of him as time goes on, and we both joke about it sometimes. She makes fun of me for how much dolls cost and I tease her by saying that Mem is always excited to see her or similar things like that.

 

He paid for 1/4 of her so I'm sure he doesn't mind ;P

 

My boyfriend and I are actually splitting the cost/ownership of a dollfie dream :3 But he doesn't spend as much time looking at dollfie related things online as I do. He also finds regular, non animetic dolls somewhat creepy (not all of them but some) so he doesn't completely accept the whole community, perse. But I think that's more of a personal preference thing.

 

My boyfriend and I have been together nearly four years now, and while I've been into BJDs a little over a year, I only recently (like, a little more than a month) became really serious about them. He "geeks" out on me all the time about MTG (which I also play) and I return the favor with BJDs. He has an interest in them, which he's admitted. He's helped me buy one and he wants to give me my first boy (and first SD) for Christmas this year. He even has ideas for dolls. I think it's safe to say he approves and accepts. xD

 

My boyfriend actually gave me the loan to buy my first doll for my birthday gift (I would NOT let him spend $200 on me!), but just like me, he'd never seen one. I don't know, he asks how Marcus is going and whether I enjoy him or not but "doesn't understand them". Fair enough, I think I'd be more confused if he did understand my fascination with resin dolls.... but he's supportive!

 

my boyfriend tolerates my dolls since i tolerate his hobbies

 

My husband is kind of mixed on it.

He doesn't get the dolls - or rather, he doesn't understand the appeal of such an expensive collection. He totally gets the creative outlet side of them.

He's pretty supportive all in all. He has his own hobbies so he is happy for me to have something that I am excited about and that I enjoy. He is like that with all my hobbies, and even though I don't always understand his, they make him happy. So all in all he doesn't mind the dolls, doesn't think they are creepy, etc. But he does have some concern that dolls are so much money.

 

My boyfriend does not like dolls, but he likes that I have them because he knows that I adore. But he does not like the price hahaha