The Boy Friend or Snakes ???

[Skittles1101]

I love how objective everyone is. You people do realize that sometimes a hobby can monopolize your time and cause stress in a relationship right? I'm not saying this is the case, but having experienced this first hand, it's something that everyone should consider before blindly stating to blow off a person the OP has been dating for 4 years.

So can't children, and full time jobs, and school. If someone can't at the VERY least accept a passion such as this, how can you expect them to accept other parts of your life? I'm a 24 y/o single mom, I work more than full time in a very high stress job, I'm also in the Air Force Reserves, and will be starting school full time very shortly. How can I expect a guy to deal with all that if he can't even handle my snakes?

You can't. This is a passion. It's not like a drug addiction, or an alcohol problem, or anything dangerous. It's keeping reptiles. If a guy tells me he can't accept my reptiles and tarantulas, then he sure as heck can't accept the more serious aspects of my life. Four years or not