Does your significant other mind poker?

[ricochet420]

Well, mostly she just says I need to get out of the house and "go" to a job. Poker is not a "respectable" profession. All that crapola. I married into a fairly conservative and religious family. Needless to say I am neither. All be it she sure hasn't complained about how the money spends. I haven't had a "real job" in about 3 years. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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she says It's ok if I play in my spare time as a hobby or whatever, but it's gonna be pretty EFFED to bring home 3-4x my "real job's" paycheck from a "hobby". I just don't get it. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[ricochet420]

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That really sucks.

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[XChamp]

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She understands it’s a hobby so she doesn’t mind, but wouldnt like me to play in all our free time so I limit my play.

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This is the option I wanted to choose.

[HSB]

She wants me to quit my job and do it professionally.

[Lawman]

She doesn't mind poker, just me playing it, when I should be spending quality time with her. My family think I am on a downward "gambling" spiral which will end with me losing my house (I've got some way to go yet as I still play 0.5/1 limit and even I am not that bad!).

[Trouthunter]

Losing you house at .50/1 does seem a little unlikely, doesn't it? My mom is worried about me, but I understands that I have a total investment of about $100.00 and all the other money was built from that. Even if I went flat busto on my entire bankroll, I'd only be down an actual $100.00.

M wife was very skeptical of the whole thing but figured we wouldn't be bankrupt if I lost the $100.00 (God knows I've blown more than that on stupider things than poker!!). After three weeks of playing, I showed her the balance in my account and she hasn't said a word since. I think if it really started dominating my life, she would not be cool with it, but I try to make sure I spend more time with her and my family than I do with the cards, and it works out.

[MrBlueNose]

My wife is fine with it. I even have my own office that I go to during the day to play, and also work on the affiliate side of things. I feel this makes things a lot better, and it also makes me more productive. I also have a schedule I stick to:

Mondays: Day Off.
Tuesday: Poker between 6am & 6pm. Night off.
Wednesday: Poker between 6am & 6pm. Night off.
Thursday: Poker between 6am & 2pm. Play at night.
Friday: Day off. I will either play from 8pm-3am tonight, or tomorrow.
Saturday: Same as Friday. I take one night off a week.
Sunday: Varies.

It's an easy schedule, doesn't mess with my time at home etc.

[danzasmack]

I'm surprised there was no:

"SHE MINDS WHAT I TELL HER TO MIND"
or
"OMG BAD BEAT MY WIFE LEFT ME BECAUSE I WAS IN A TOURNAMENT AND DROPPED THE BABY WHEN I LOST AA TO AA ALL IN ON LAST HAND WTF WINNER GOT 500FPP!!"
or my personal favorite
"She doesn't mind cuz then im in the chatroom a lot. I don't know, I'm getting pretty PO'd cuz she hasn't sent me a full body shot yet...we're pretty serious though"

[Hendricks433]

Im only 19 and dont have a gf or anything but my parents hate it. I was home 4 -tabling and my mom was like what are you doing? your playing 4 GAMES!! wich really isnt alot. And she keeps telling me I need a job with more integrity. But Im in college and it more than pays the bills quite easily.

[Fishy McDonk]

Why tell her?

Just say you work online and when she comes in the room while you're playing, hit your hotkey that brings up a spreadsheet.