GFs and wives? My mother was the one who gave me a hard time. When I was 17 I purchased a used Krell KSA-80b with everything that I had saved up from little jobs. She didn't flinch at the cost but she sure was upset about the size of that amp:
"My goodness, where on earth are you going to put that honker of a thing!? Why you'd break the coffee table! What if it leaves marks on your dresser? You can't just leave that on the floor, it looks slopy!"