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.