Who has spouses/partners that don't care if you spend time at DU?

[hang a left]

My husband hates it. I think that secretly he is jealous. Because I love DU so much. He does not share my views as a bleeding heart liberal. I think he actually takes the opposite side of an issue just to be argumentative. Don't get me wrong, he is a great man. He just doesn't share my passion. He doesn't care what else I do and funds all my interests but he is demanding that I stay away from "whiners underground."

[Beware the Beast Man]

1. My wife is a member.

Doesn't post a fraction of the stuff I do, though.

[qnr]

2. My wife is on DU all the time, she just isn't registered n/t

[CO Liberal]

3. My Wife Is Also a DU-er

Her name is "the Princess".

This is the DU member still known as CO Liberal.

[the Princess]

29. There you are honey!! LOL

I posted further down I didn't see this post! :)

[motely36]

4. My partner also spends time on DU

Actually he introduced it to me.

But I don't think he's registered or posts

[Pacifist Patriot]

5. My husband doesn't care as long as he's not looking to get some.

[Maat]

6. My hubby's been great, pretty much.

I feel your pain, though. Hubby was a good sport, and we went to a DU gathering on his birthday. I converted him. He's pretty darn interested in poltics now. But I have a time allowance, kinda. I have to show results studying.

Eh .. tell you need it to stay sane. Maybe you can set time limits or something. And time limits on discussing politics.

And we're not whiners - we figure out what we want to do in life by bouncing ideas off of very good listeners.

[gollygee]

7. My husband doesn't hang out at DU but he's very liberal

He doesn't care. I keep trying to talk him into registering at DU but he so far won't.

[tigereye]

21. same with mine

not enough time. He laughs at how addicted to DU I am, though.

[djeseru]

8. Doesn't bother my husband.

He likes the links I send him that I've found out here, plus DU helps us gage what liberal opinions are since we're out here in a sea of red, with very few liberal acquaintances.

[T Wolf]

9. Flip side - different motivation - same effect

My wife thinks this place is too extreme, though I think it is not extreme enough.

That aside, she is very anti-* and hates him with a passion. But, she dislikes conflict even more so her approach is to avoid "negative" things, like my rants.

She did not like a few LttE I wrote in the past because it "insulted" some of our neighbors, so I have stopped writing them. The bumper stickers and buttons came off last Thursday so we would not offend anyone. Etc.

Interesting "problem" coming up. We are having a group of people over for dinner tomorrow and I want to declare a politics-free zone. The reason is that there are some pukes in the crowd (her church group) and they are not shy about expressing their views. I am not allowed to respond because it might upset them. This has happened when we are out - I have been pretty good about keeping my mouth shut. But this is MY HOUSE and I do not feel I should have to shut up in my own home.

Wish me luck.

[havocmom]

10. Havocdad misses me sometimes, but figures it keeps me outta trouble

while he watches
football
basketball
baseball
movies with a lot of explosions
the 300 episodes of CSI on TV in any given week

:evilgrin:

[spatlese]

11. My boyfriend LOVEs the links I send him...

which I get from DU. He sure doesn't mind me hanging out here.

[hippiechick]

12. Spouse ? Oh, that's who that strange guy in my kitchen is ...

:silly: He's been there awhile now .. I was wondering.

Seriously, no spouse/partner here ... I don't think there's a man
alive who could tolerate me, and vice versa - on a long term basis.


:hippie:

[Midlodemocrat]

13. My husband doesn't care

if I hang out here. His job is too high stress/busy for him to hang out here much, but he knows that I am passionate about my beliefs, and he wants me to be happy.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

30. I have pretty much the same situation.

My husband is very busy. Part of the reason why I'm here so much is because he is not home. I think I'll be spending less time here once he has more time to relax and hang out with me. Toward the end of December he won't be so busy anymore.

[sybylla]

14. My hubby doesn't complain, but

That's because he brought me to DU - and because we have more than one computer online so we can both be here at the same time. Odd thing is, he's very political but I have nearly 10 times the posts that he does. I like the strong, silent type apparently.

[LynzM]

17. I could have written your post

LOL :)

[PleadTheFirst]

15. My wife is a DU lurker.

Loves the site, she just isn't very vocal. :)

[fishnfla]

16. Mrs Fishnfla is a believer, but too busy

She always says "what are our friends saying about it?" I show her all the good stuff. She really enjoyed the Elizabeth Edwards thread. The "sorry everyone" posts were mezmerizing to her, could not get off the damn 'puter

[liberalitch]

18. The Commie often reads over my shoulder....

he thinks the site is great.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

19. Eh

Mr. Moonbeam would be here himself if forums interested him at all. He totally agrees with liberalism as he is a big flaming liberal himself. He is always asking me "so what's going on on the board?" That's what he calls it, just "the board."

He loves to play very elaborate computer games and download music or like I said, he'd be here himself.

Good luck with your husband. Tell him this is actually a very elaborate recipe website.

On edit, it's not a problem with sharing the computer, since I have a computer, he has one and Little Moonbeam has one. They are all in the same room, the office, which we've deliberately furnished and decorated to be a very warm, comfortable room. We have a TV with a DVD player in the room, too, so we can watch movies, hang out. I do a lot of work from home, too.

Rambling, sorry.

[eataTREE]

20. It would never occur to my wife to object to my spending time here.

Or at any other internet site, for that matter.

As long as I'm not so glued to the computer that I neglect her or things that need doing, she lets me spend time doing the things I enjoy.

Which makes me a very happy (and lucky) man!

[skygazer]

22. Mine certainly doesn't care

I mostly spend my time here when he's at work but it wouldn't matter anyway. The once or twice he's "demanded" anything, I've simply looked at him and laughed - that seems to snap him back to reality.

Weekends when he's around, I generally gravitate here while he watches football or does outdoor work. He agrees with my views but has no interest in hunching over the computer conversing with people about them.

[Modem Butterfly]

23. My partner has no problem with it

He even signed up as a member back when I was a moderator. He hasn't posted in awhile, but maybe we can draw him out for Veteran's Day.

[Elidor]

24. Not me, that's for certain!

The little time I spend on DU is a subject with our therapist, and the object of guilt trips and ugly scenes. Some nights I'm afraid to even LOOK at the computer for fear I'll set her off. Even when she's asleep, she doesn't like me on here.

[pdx_prog]

25. My GF doesn't care...

I rarely get on from home.......I have "better" things to do..:)

[DrZeeLit]

26. My husband doesn't care. He loves all the info I print out for him...

... he just hates the computer and doesn't really want to learn how to use it.

I do spend a lot of time on the computer.
I was a bit focused on the election.
He was, too, but not on the computer.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

27. Skip doesn't care...He's also a member.

But he's more of a lurker these days. He thinks everyone is crazy, and well, he's right. hehehe
Duckie

[the Princess]

28. My hubby brought me here.

He was after me to join for a few years and now we have the most fun on here together.

Poopy on your hubby! LOL