Aggresive BP and breeder practices

[Marrissa]

I think you're going to have to work more on your girlfriend than the snake. Explain to her this is your hobby/passion. That this is what makes you happy and that you both are perfectly safe. My boyfriend isn't a fan of snakes but he wouldn't dream of trying to tell me no. If it's between boyfriend and being able to have pets, I either get both or he gets the boot. Now that we live together and he's around them more, he's actually asked to hold my oldest one a few times. This is him asking on his own, and me never pressuring him to touch or hold him. Or when I have him out on the couch with me he sometimes cruises between people to climb on and my boyfriend is ok with that now. It used to be he'd have a disgusted face on if he touched him. Now he talks to him in that voice people use for dogs and has no problem maneuvering him to keep from going in the couch or something.

To me, if it's going to work, she's going to have to work on her fear. She doesn't have to like them, touch them, or hold them, she just has to not let her fear dictate what you can and cannot have. I've noticed that if you just keep doing what you're doing and don't pressure anyone, that most level headed people will start to ask you questions, this opens up the doors to teaching them and showing them they aren't that scary, and eventually they ask to touch or hold them.