What to do if your spouse hates knives?

Dunno what to say... My wife carries and goes to knife shows with me. She owns the only 2 axis lock BMs in the house.
 
I used to have a controlling spouse like that. Later got divorced and while I felt down about it for a while, realized that not only was it "for the best" but it really was the best thing that happened. :thumbup:

Most men really don't care how many shoes a woman buys for herself, but let a guy buy a knife, gun, circular saw, or whatever, and some women feel like they just need to control it.

I don't understand that, but to just to restate, I'm glad I'm no longer connected to that controlling beyotch.

And I am not saying you need to get a divorce, but you need to figure out what's going on when she feels a need to control your buying habits.

Are you current on your rent/mortgage? Your credit cards? Car note? Putting money away for a rainy day, and have food on the table? And not forgetting her birthday, anniversary, Valentine's Day?

If so you should be able to spend some money for yourself and not feel guilty about it.
 
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Can i ask for some of her background? social status maybe but upbringing? what region etc. and if you feel ok about it a little more about her than that, is she a foreigner, etc. and are the 2 of you from the same general upbringing or not.
 
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I have no idea what you're talking about. My girlfriend loves most of my knives, just bought a hatchet, and recommends that I only buy one gun a year... after I buy my Saiga 12 for Christmas, she says that doesn't count because it's so awesome.

Seriously, another vote for "How did you end up with her?".
 
you guys just need to talk without screaming and fighting , it never helps .
if normal talking wont work then I dont know what is gonna help you, sorry man.

Why she doesn't like knifes ?
 
My girlfriend was like that when we just met, maybe from all the hollywood movies :rolleyes: Just let her know that you are not gearing up for the next
world war! They're just tools. Try not to be all flashy around her with them and she will have to accept them in time ;):cool:
 
Give her some progesterone cream and tell her to chill out or get a divorce if that doesn't work. Men need to reclaim their balls. Course I'm joking about the divorce part... well... maybe... it's your call.
 
This situation is always familiar to me, if not most of us.
As long as there is a 'give & take' gesture for both parties as to how often do you buy your 'likes' and it doesn't hurt the 'common funds'. It's not a bad thing after all to acquire something after the 'needs & priorities' are taken cared of in the first place. What comes next are secondary and hobbies are one of them. Welcome to marriage my friend!
 
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I only have two fixed knives, and maybe 4 pocket knives and one hatchet. I can't tell you what a s... storm I received when the hatchet came in the mail. And today I received a 4 inch paring knife and that s.... storm became a f.... severe storm.
After our lovely marital fight, if you are not married don't do it, I attempted to explain to her there is nothing wrong with collecting a few knives. Didn't work. Any advice on how to convince someone that knife collecting is not the devil's hobby? You can throw in some wife jokes and/or grow some balls, but at the end give me and some of the other fed up husbands some advice.:mad:
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There's a lot of wisdom in this thread... here's my 2 cents >>>

I think a "F.... severe storm" over a single paring knife is merely a symptom, the real trick is to find the actual problem. (I am assuming the knife wasn't an "expensive" solution to a non-existant problem at a time when cash was tight) If you find the problem and fix it, the symptom goes away all by itself. If not, the problem and the symptom(s) are likely to get worse with time...

If you are unable to find and fix the problem, as an alternative, you should offer to only buy 1 knife for each pair of her shoes in your closet... and once you have done that, you can only buy a new knife when she buys a new pair of shoes... If your house is anything like mine, you'll never catch up! :D
 
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Alright, alright, "ex" is a string and not a character, but whatever...

$5 or a cookie to anyone who understood that. And I get to choose lol
 
My thinking is you have to get rid of the knives or the wife...There are more women out there and those new knives you have do hold their value. The woman not so much.
 
Davor said:
And today I received a 4 inch paring knife and that s.... storm became a f.... severe storm.
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...wait she freaked over even a paring knife?

...What the hell does she use to prepare food?

I realize judging from an internet post is total bollocks, but this almost sounds like it's not a matter of convinving a wife to tolerate a silly hobby, but of helping her deal with some sort of severe phobia.
 
Do what I do ---
Point at yourself and say "Knifemaker, I make and collect them"...then point at her and say "Homemaker, you wash them and set the table with them"....know the difference, hon."

Then make sure your escape path is clear.

Next week I get the last of my "You gotta sleep sometime, Buster" stitches out for saying that line too.:thumbup::D
 
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The bills are getting paid, but her concern the knives are useless. "Why do you need another knife when you have two in the kitchen drawer" Some of you also picked the right question, is it the knife or not paying more attention to her. Another s.... storm about 10 minutes revealed that knives were useless and that I should be buying something more useful for both of us. I think she is mad/afraid my knives are more important to me than her, especially when I spend considerable amounts of times browsing bladeforums and the internet for them.
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This sounds like a case of either you 2 didn't know each other as well as ya'll thought you did, or as in my case, the fatal "I know I can change him" syndrom. Neither will work in the long run unless you both are willing to really talk it out. Either agree to disagree and move on or really work it out, only 2 choices bro..
 
Just start cooking foods that are eaten with a knife every night and remove all the knives from the kitchen.

Steak knives, chef knives, butter knives. Everything. :D
 
Though funny in ways the part about the female being neglected or loved less than the knife is one of the exact reasons I now call her my ex. She would get so mad you would have thought I slept with her sister :)

I could be on the computer but if I was on BF then the S... storm would start. Everthing seemed to revolve around here not getting enough attention and she actually got the the point of hate for my hobby. Does she use the www.? myspace? facebook?
 
Just tell her to get over it, if not kick her to the curb. :thumbup:

With the junk they buy all the time I never put up with that crap for a second.

It's a form of control really, it won't stop there either if you don't tell her what's what now. ;)
 
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