Quote Originally Posted by wilomn View Post
It's entirely possible that there is something else going on.

Perhaps the boyfriend has started seeing someone else or wants to start seeing someone else but wants the OP to break up with him and is using the snakes as an excuse to cause that to happen.

The thing about speculating is, you're just guessing.

A lot of people with a lot of experience with this exact scenario have given her advice and some with almost no experience with this exact scenario have piped up too.

Whatever she does is for her to decide and her friends and hopefully family, to support.
Everyone here is speculating. We only know half of what is going on; we don't know his reasons at all. Considering this is a snake forum, of course the majority are going to say "ditch the boyfriend, keep the snakes". Snakes don't take a huge amount of time to care for unless the collection is massive. In which case, the boyfriend would have a legit complaint. Honestly? Instead of coming onto a forum and complain, she should sit down with him and ask his reasoning for why he thinks she spends too much time with her snakes.