What do you guys gota say about this...

Here's the truth. Your girlfriend is the normal*one. You (and we) are the freaks. We have the knife fetish. As far as the world is concerned, you are The Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons. Only with knives instead of comic books. Be thankful that she hang out with you at all.
 
Glock26 said:
Above all ladies and gents, i will keep on buying my knives and guns. Also will have them on me, i'm not a sheep. most important, my girlfriend was not in a threatening manner, she is just trying to tell me what she thinks, i disagree. I'm not like "Dr. Faggot" in hangover.
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Yup. That pretty much yells out "Mall Ninja" to normal folks. Rolling eyes and all.

Look. You either get used to it, or you buy a hut in rural Montana like the Unabomber. If you can't take society's heat you get out. Just being honest. If you're looking for a circle jerk, you can ignore my posts and look to other members responses.
 
Ah jeez, come on i get a sense what you're all talking about. I am totally fine in what my girlfriend believes in, heck i say she has some weird hobbies also, it's fine i stress compromising on a reasonable level.

For the ones telling me to break up, it is not that serious. I have my knives everywhere, not my guns they are mostly in the safe. She gets the point that i like having them on me also for work and play/everyday.
 
Yep, your girlfriend gets to be embarrassed by you sometimes, and sometimes you get to embarrass her. In the end, actions speak louder, and just look at your presents and think of why you give/receive them.

*peeks head out window*

Hey, sky ain't falling.
 
I have to admit, these thread are a guilty pleasure of mine.

OP: "My wife/GF doesn't like my guns/knives! What to I do?"
molonlabe2A: "Break up with her! Liberals are sheep!"
bladekook: "+1!"
INFIman: "Dump her! It will only get worse."
jr: "When I get a GF, she will have to carry a pink Delica! lol!!1!"
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OP: "Whoa, thanks for the replies, but I'm not gonna get divorced over CCW."

randomEdge: "My wife buys shoes!"

They just never get old. I'm glad there are so many!

My wife doesn't buy me things related to these hobbies because she knows I'm in a constant buy/sell cycle anyway. As she says, by the time she gives me the X Knife for Christmas that I've been talking about since Labor Day, I will have bought and sold two X Knives already.

Glock26, it sounds like you have your head on straight about it. My wife doesn't like to talk about our guns/knives with our leftist friends either (even though many of our liberal friends are gun/knife users anyway). You know what? That's fine. sheky is right: be discreet and it will be cool.

But I agree, would it really be so awkward for your GF to tell her friends "For him? Oh, I just got him a new pocketknife and a fancy flashlight." Seems like a legit thing to say. Tonight I am going to wrap 2 purses that I got my wife for Christmas. So what? I would tell my friends if they asked. I am not a purse enthusiast myself, but I think she will really like them.
 
Glock26 said:
Ah jeez, come on i get a sense what you're all talking about. I am totally fine in what my girlfriend believes in, heck i say she has some weird hobbies also, it's fine i stress compromising on a reasonable level.

For the ones telling me to break up, it is not that serious. I have my knives everywhere, not my guns they are mostly in the safe. She gets the point that i like having them on me also for work and play/everyday.
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Best of luck, then! You're a braver man than I.
 
Pete1977 said:
My girlfriend lets me buy whatever I want.
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Read what you just wrote - a girlfriend LETS you buy whatever you want - with your own money... Think about that one a minute...


pinhead said:
My advice is have a conservative wife and a liberal girlfriend - best of both worlds! ;)
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Thank you Tiger. ;) :eek:

I've been married for 26 years, and it's hard work for the both of us. Both have to learn to cut each other slack.
 
My take on this - don't break up with her merely because she felt out of place among her friends telling them that she bought you a knife for Christmas. Anyone would feel out of place in a group of people who expected one thing of them, and got another. It doesn't mean she doesn't love you, or respect your hobby of knives.

No couple will completely agree with everything the other does, the idea that you should "dump her and find another one" is silly. Obviously she cares enough about you, and even takes your knife hobby seriously enough to buy you one for Christmas in the first place. That doesn't sound like someone who doesn't accept you for who you are at all. That sounds like someone who cares, even if they themselves don't fully understand.
 
They just do not understand, the only time they do is when they ask me 'hun can i borrow your knife to cut open this?' And i give them a question looked face expression, then they say ' No not the big one.' Next is, if i'm in the woods camping and they see shady looking people, (thugs, gangsters, etc) Then they ask me if 'you got your gun' then i'm like ' rest assure, if things go south we will leave in a hurry, and i got my .357 insurance.

i want end this by saying, i think people just lose, or forget that this world we live in is not a safe place. realistically the majority of people are good but there will always be shady people. hence why some carry knives for whatever reason and/ or firearms.
 
My wife has bought me probably 30 knives in the last 10years.She even bought me a Boker Smatchet about 9 years ago.This Christmas she's getting me a stropbat with 3 different polishing compounds.What a wife she is!!!
 
I`m one of the fortunate ones....my wife is completely OK with my hobbies....one year when I had the flu and couldn`t make it to the NY Custom Knife Show, she called my friend Sam (who I always went to the show with) and (unknown to me), asked him to pick up a nice knife for me, as a birthday present. It doesn`t get much better than that....
 
2 years ago I got a gun for Xmas from my fiance. Last year I got a Tissot Ttouch Expert.

This year she wants to get me another gun safe, because she is pissed about how many guns there are laying around here that wont fit into my first one.

I say dump the liberal broad. They are not worth the hassle.
 
sodak said:
Read what you just wrote - a girlfriend LETS you buy whatever you want - with your own money... Think about that one a minute...
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yeah and I LET her buy what she wants. A relationship is a give and take affair. Decisions are mutual. Think about THAT for a minute. ;)

Perhaps I should have used a different word, I buy what I want when I want without any input or complaint on her part and I allow her that same consideration.

She is "letting" me buy a commercial fishing business too. with my own money ;)
 
Glock26 said:
Okay, here it goes. To illustrate, my girlfriend of three years goes to tell me that she and two of her close friends asked her "what did you get your boyfriend for christmas(pertaining to me)." And so, today my girlfriend said she was embarrassed to tell them because it sounded like i was "A ninja or something."

What do you guys say, my girlfriend was really embarrassed. She even said, no more knives okay!

Oh well, my girlfriend has liberal ideals. Against my ownership of firearms and knives. Whats your say ladies and gentleman, don't freight to share any similar stories. :confused::jerkit:
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I didn't read any of thread, but from reading these few lines you need to RUN:eek:




Just kidding:p, but I myself don't even want to be around someone with Liberal ideas...much less date them.
We all have differant views though, and I can respect that. I am glad I live in a place were I have never met a person that has anything against knives or Guns.
 
Tell her you think she should cut back on shoes or china or purses. Useful things that she has more than enough of that you think she could get by with one or two of. See if she sees it from your point of view then.
 
Dont sweat what she will or won't buy you. You can do the purchasing easy enough. At our house, we pretty much split up the "totally unnecesary treats" pretty even. I get a knife, she gets a purse, I get really nice work boots, she gets a bunch of wine. We only get about 1 treat per 2 months, so it works out. The last thing you gotta do is budget for both, and be up front about the cost. We have already established that there is no real need for either of our items, all that is left is the want and the cost.
 
Get rid of her, you can find better.

My girlfriend once asked; "What's more important, me or guns and knives?". She didn't like the answer I gave her.

You can replace some girl, you can't replace your dignity or a quality knife and gun collection.
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Mark my words if you stay in this relationship your going to come to regret it, put your chin strap on because its going to be a bumpy ride, and your nuts in a nice box that she won't be embarrassed to carry in her purse.
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I say dump the liberal broad. They are not worth the hassle.
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C'mon guys, you can't say such things. It's not up to you to decide if someone's significant other is the right one.
I can see where she's coming from. Women are usually less interested in gadgets. They often have other addictions (shoes, fashion...) that can drive us crazy.
I have around 100 knives and of course I can't really say that i need them all, so I can understand when my friend shakes her head (with a faint smile, it must be said) when she notices that I have a new one.
 
One of my best girl-friends (who is the girlfriend of my best friend) wasn't ever really around knives much. She wasn't "scared" of them, but didn't really see the fascination with them (I equated it with the 20+ pairs of jeans she owns and she kind of understood). I ended up dragging her boyfriend into the knife fascination and she became even more surrounded by them. :) One day she was at my apartment and was in my other room. I walk into the other room and catch her opening and closing all my different knives to which I responded "HAH!" She gave a little smile and said, "Sorry, it's just kind of fun to open and close them." I think her BF and I have converted her :D She doesn't even bat an eye when he and I sit on the couch and flip our blades.
 
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