>Well, my girlfriend does get a bit annoyed at times. We live in
>different cities for 8 months of the year, so for the most part I have
>free reign. Thing is, the 4 months we're together, we're at her house,
>so she rules. Generally it works out as I have a large workshop to do
>with as I wish at work. So I do my building during the day. When I move
>there full time, we're going to need a large house...in addition to all
>my electronics and computer and the usual, she has numerous sewing
>machines, a quilting machine setup (which I will one day build a PIC
>add-on to), stores of fabric, toys, puzzles, and many many clothes.
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>She is fairly tolerant of what I do. Most of the time she is somewhat
>interested in my projects, especially when she stands to benefit from
>them. I help her out with her stuff, and she helps me out with mine on
>occasion. We will need a huge house one day though...because we are both
>gatherers :)
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>Josh
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>William Chops Westfield wrote:
>> How well does your partner put up with you using the house as a workshop,
>> bits of electronic components getting trodden round the building
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>> Of course, this requires a large house...  Can't wait for the kids to
>> move out!
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>Oh, I'm well aware. I've been trained well living in "her" house for 4
>months of the year. That's why I have made it clear I need a room of my
>own that she can't clean or rearrange or move about. Whether that
>happens or not remains to be seen :)
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>Andy Kunz wrote:
>> What nobody has apparently explained to you yet, Josh, is that even if it
>> were "your" house, it would be "her" house if she lived there, and you'd
>> still have to live by her rules.
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>How well does your partner put up with you using the house as a workshop,
>bits of electronic components getting trodden round the building, asking
>her/him to RRF in the middle of the night because they are taking up too
>much space in bed ;-)
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>All those late nights spend debugging code instead of sitting down with your
>hot chocolate and watching a good film, coming to bed muttering about
>interrupts, stack overflows and "whose stupid idea was it to use page
>banking".
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>My ex-wife was terrible, she had no patience with my tinkering. Stuff would
>get mysteriously tidied away never to be seen again. Chips would look like
>they'd been trodden on, tools would be used to open cans etc.
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>Current girlfriend is wonderful. She pays for my hobbies (I stay at home and
>look after a child with ADHD), rarely complains, totally ignores me when I
>start talking about electronic stuff and its only when she steps on
>something sharp that I really get it in the neck.
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>How do your partners cope ? ;-)
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>Dom
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