Wife approval factor?

You're not married yet, so it's too soon to judge if you're lucky or not. My girlfriends and mother all loved my gear too. It's different with the wife, because she feels you're spending HER money. Money was never an issue with mom and girlfriends, because my money was my money. When you're married, even keeping seperate accounts, the wife will still feel as though it's HER money. A woman's economical perspective after marriage is: What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine.

My wife and I have a great agreement. The front wall of the living room which is both audio and video is mine. The garage and backyard are also mine. EVERYTHING else is hers. This also excludes certain male anatomical parts. Unlike some friends of mine, I don't have to ask if I can borrow mine.

Steve

I say who cares!!!!! If she doesn't like what she sees, put her outside in the dog house with Brutus. She'll come around quick enough.

i have a childhood friend who's wife made him put his rig in the spare beedroom where it sat until i bought it 3 years later.

he also has a brand new harley that he asks permission to ride & 99% of the time she say's no way hose unless she is invited.

oh, i cant forget the paycheck deal,he cashes his check & promptly hands over 100% of it every week & has to ask for small amounts of it back while she spends copious amounts of cash lounging in tanning salons & gettin her nails done.

god i just want to smack him in the head sometimes & tell him to grow a set!

every time i ask him if he wants to get on his bike & go on a run with a few of us im reminded of the sam kinnison bit from years ago.

(husband)honey some of the guys are takin theirs & i wanted to know if i can take mine.

(wife) no way little mister you got work to do.

(husband) i cant go,SHE'S GOT MY DICK!

My wife participates in all of our audio choices, and encourages me--the obsessive one--to swap out/upgrade whatever I think is appropriate. This might seem to be a trivial issue until you consider that she is also the primary breadwinner between us. I paint and write full-time, but don't make much money from it. Yet she has no attachment to the money as hers, mine or even ours. We have no debt, and that's really her only concern.

I have not had a day job in four years. It doesn't matter if I don't work for a week, go skiing, or stay up all night writing. She only wants to know that I'm enjoying myself as much as she is. The first book I wrote was about making a spectacular marriage. Guess who inspired me? No, I'm not making this up. And no, she does not have a sister.