When I met my now husband, I was 15 and told him bluntly I would save my turtle from a burning building before him. He never really had pets before, but stayed around.
He's into all things geeky, and during a time I didn't have the funds to keep up my fish and red eared slider addiction he was sad I didn't have a hobby and tried to get me into gaming. I'm notoriously bad at video games.
Funds are a bit better now and I got my first snake, while he recently got into some trading card games. We enjoy exchanging geekeries. He talks about rare WoW mounts while I talk about thermostats and my desire for a baby hognose. He's held other, calmer snakes and pets my skittish new albino. He even calls him by his name! We had people over, and he was very adamant that Oliver got his privacy and sounded like the father of a newborn (we don't have kids). He's not exactly a "reptile lover" but he respects them and respects me.
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