A question for the Married or living together couples

[Royal Morphz]

As most know me and my better half married last November, but have been together 3 years now. She has put up with my obsession that is snake keeping for about as long lol. The question now, to what extent do your better halves help with the snakes and the daily chores? Liza does come and check on her select favorites and she will fill up and water bowls that are empty also. She is more hesitant to mess with the ones that have either struck or bitten me which is fine. I keep most of the sub adults and babies on paper and when its time to clean she doesn't want any part of it lol. Now this isn't to complain as I know this is my hobby and she does help out alot. I just wanted to hear how your situations differ from mine. Thanks in advance.

[monk90222]

My wife is deathly afraid of snakes. She doesn't help one bit. Actually she hasn't been in the snake room in like 3 years.

[Haydenphoto]

Im not even touching this

[cinderbird]

my boyfriend is almost phobic of snakes. He understands that I love them but they are 100% my animals and I do all the daily maintenance associated with them. I'll talk to him about them sometimes, or mention if something interesting happened or if everyone ate or didnt but he doesn't really care at all and I understand that.

Thats why i come here to get my daily dose of OMG TALK ABOUT SNAKES. (secretly i'm hoping he'll come around). He did actually help edit my entire book about snakes (Keeping Ball Pythons) and thats.. a lot of pictures of ball pythons that he went through, but he did it for me, not because he cares about the snakes at all.

Oh, and he stood up to our landlord about my snakes too. They're on the lease and there was an issue with the LL and his religion and the snakes (after we moved in) perhaps i'll make another post about that, but he stood up for my snakes because I love them and they make me happy, so he wants them around by default.

[Pinky]

Well my Fiance use to be scared of my snakes but a few months go she decided to hold one of my female normals..needless to say i am no longer the "owner" of that particular female lol..but she still refuses to handle any of my larger ones..she likes the smaller one and thats it..she even gets mad when i feed cause she doesnt want her to grow haha..but when it comes to feeding or cleaning I'm still on my own.

[snakecharmer3638]

My wife and I have been together for over fifteen years and I have had several different types of snakes over the years. In that time she has never cleaned a cage and really does not interact with them. But there are advantages to this because she does not really know how many snakes I have. We currently only have the four Ball Pythons and my son has a Corn snake and the other day when someone asked how many snakes we had she said seven... So I figure I can bring a couple more into the house since she already thinks they are there.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

I am married to someone who is not into animals period, snakes and rodents even less, he has come a long way and now handles snakes (2 of them are "his") and he even has "his" Cresties, when it comes to care though it is on me, I do it all this is MY hobby and I consider this MY responsability.

My husband has been very supportive, even let me take over the room that was supposed to be his so I could have a large reptile room so I really cannot complain quite the contrary, he wants me do to what makes me happy however that is where the support ends (which is already great), he works long hours so I would not expect him to help me either but I know that if I needed help he would try is best.

Anyway this is my thing and I am not expecting or wanting him to help me just like if he goes fishing (that is his hobby) he does not expect me to help (cleaning the boat, preparing the tackle box, cleaning the fish etc), I could but I am not into that at all.

We each do our own thing, respect and understand each other interest and the time we dedicate to our passion.

[Denial]

Me and sarah have been together for 7 years now and we are not married yet but we moved out together when we were 16 and she actually bought me a ball python for a fathers day present and she didnt know it was going to turn into an obsession. But she is very supportive of every reptile I want except the venomous snakes. Most of the time I clean cages by myself but she asks everyday if I need help cleaning and sometimes if I dont feel good or something and want to get done faster we will clean together

[Patrick Long]

We split the room.

She does babies and geckos

I do all the big stuff, plus a few babies here and there.

[ballpythonluvr]

I have been with my boyfriend for almost seven years and we live together. I have one male normal BP and he is mine, lol. My boyfriend handles him when I have to do the cleaning or just spot cleaning of the enclosure. My boyfriend used to have a crazy garter snake that was very aggressive with me and he was the only one able to handle that snake. He also used to clean the garter's enclosure. My boyfriend is a little hesitant with my BP because my boy had struck at him once. That was our own fault though, the snake had just got done with a meal and my boyfriend stuck his hand into the enclosure tyring to spot clean. This is why my boyfriend is a little hesitant to handle my BP.