Does your partner approve of your hobbies?

My gf tries to be understanding, but occasionally she flies off the handle a bit and talks about how one day she'll smash it to pieces. On the one hand she gets that it's how I relax, and is a bit of a social element too, but she also feels that I care more about my pc than I do about her. Not true, obviously, I just don't like watching TV about fat people getting thin. She doesn't want to try gaming (despite her 43yr old brother just getting into gaming and loving it) so gaming together is out of the question, sadly.
 
Devrij said:
She doesn't want to try gaming (despite her 43yr old brother just getting into gaming and loving it) so gaming together is out of the question, sadly.
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My girlfriend isn't interested in gaming either, but we had fun playing the lego games together. Need to find something new we can try.
 
Haggisman said:
While you're at work and she's out and about?
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My wife looks after the children during that time, apart from Friday when both children are at nursery.

I'm not saying her job of looking after the kids isn't important, it is. My point is only that a lot of her week is still leisure time in my book, kids or not. She is also welcome to go and do her own thing at weekends while I look after the kids, but just because I allocate 2 hrs every Sunday to 9 holes of golf, it seems to be a problem.
 
yer_averagejoe said:
My girlfriend isn't interested in gaming either, but we had fun playing the lego games together. Need to find something new we can try.
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I do have Lego LOTR so might give that a go. I think she gets put off by the complexity of the controls in most games and gives up. 1st person games also make her feel ill, probably because she swings the camera all over the place lol.
 
My girlfriend doesn't care in the slightest about my gaming or car restoration. She does have a minor whinge when I leave car parts allover the dining room for three days but that is more about the mess than the hobby itself.
 
I wouldn't date someone who doesn't like my hobbies
It just wouldn't work.
I like someone who can play halo coop with
Who likes animals
Who ideally likes photography... Ironically my gf got me into it but now she doesn't do it.
I find this one tough as you can easily whittle away a whole weekend with a camera

I really think I'm starting to enjoy coop games more than single player but never really liked Internet gaming
 
krooton said:
Thing is most guys seems to have something to occupy their free time with, whereas of the women I know, there seems to be a 60/40 split of those who have no discernible hobby, and those who do.

Shopping, going out, and watching awful TV shows are not hobbies, yet seem to be the main ways many modern women spend their free time.

#everydaysexism?
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All of my female friends have just as many hobbies as my male friends. Writing, running websites, singing, playing in bands, political activism, travelling, video games...

Maybe my friends are unusual though. :)
 
My gf doesn't really have anything to occupy her free time with
Its getting a bit worrying tbh

I'm as happy out with my camera as I am fiddling around with my pc or on photoshop

But my partner has nothing of her own. (she likes horses but horse riding is just a big money whole) I'm growing worried that she will loose motivation completely if she doesn't find her self
 
It's funny how they find being into all things gadgety geeky and in my case I get a bit of light hearted micky taking from her, unless I'm fixing something for her or building a spreadsheet to make her life easier of course.

She also hasn't even been in my car since I got it supercharged, no interest whatsoever, and got positively uppity when she showed me a coat that cost over a grand and I just went "Are you kidding it won't keep me any warmer in the car with the roof down, and do you know how many exhaust bits I could get for a grand?"
 
Football is overrated anyway. ^ :p

We game together, although not that often anymore. Go dog walking together. Otherwise she's on the sofa and I'm at the PC.

She wanted to put the PC in another room not long ago to which I said "But we'd never see each other!".
 
krooton said:
Thing is most guys seems to have something to occupy their free time with, whereas of the women I know, there seems to be a 60/40 split of those who have no discernible hobby, and those who do.

Shopping, going out, and watching awful TV shows are not hobbies, yet seem to be the main ways many modern women spend their free time.

#everydaysexism?
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Haggisman said:
Nah, I agree - my GF doesn't seem to have any real "interests". There are things she does to pass the time - as you say, watching rubbish TV, going out, shopping, but nothing she seems to have an active passion for.
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Got to agree with these points. My girlfriend of ten years has very few hobbies to speak of, unless you count candy crush and watching tv on her laptop. I've tried to encourage her to take up a sport or something but all to no avail.
 
I agree with the fact most women don't do anything in particular other than watch TV and shop. Most girls are very stereo typical with it.

The most unattractive quality other than being fat and lazy in my opinion is having no interests, it makes a person very dull and also usually means they are rather needy/clingy as they don't understand the importance of your own space and time to complete interests. They often fill the void wit children, also giving them an excuse to become fat and lazy... and thus the hell of married life.
 
I first met Mrs Dimple in 1972 and she knew I was a working musician and football was important to me. 42 years on and she has never said a word about my gigging or football and she knows they come first.
She also doesn't mind me sitting at my PC all evening because it keeps me away from the main TV and we are still in the same room.
 
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