What’s your Spouse’s or Significant other’s attitude towards this Hobby?

My wife likes the trains, goes to train shows, looks and the catalog, she picks out things that she likes (M&M cars), even though I prefer scale rolling stock, it makes her part of building the layout and as long as she gets what she wants.........THE CONSTRUCTION WILL CONTINUE WITHOUT PROBLEMS !

My spouse is supportive, without getting involved, and that works fine.

I enjoy working on the layout as a solo project and hobby.

That said, he is amazed that whenever we have people over, and we usually host an open house during the dead of winter, everyone wants to see the trains.

They are a great equalizer.

I did hint that I would like the Wegman's Lionel set for Christmas, so we shall see.

Ken

My wife is supportive.  She has even shown an interest in doing a small N scale layout for herself.  So we might have to have talks about who can build where, although I do have a head start over her...

She has never had a problem with any of my hobbies. Her only complaint is when I buy a lot of stuff or spend a lot in a short period of time and I don't tell her, because she doesn't know why there is a chuck of money withdrawn from our account. I am always building a model, working on a train, working on a home improvement project or my system in my truck. I don't go out bar hopping, chasing women, running the streets or go out gambling without her, so I don't see where she has much to complain about.

"Why don't you just live down there?........ pretty much says it all

.. openly hostile.   

I wouldn't say that my wife could not care less, because, clearly she could...

Let's just say that her feelings about my trains are equivalent to my feelings about her knitting.

I don't know how my wife could be more supportive.  Goes everywhere with me to look at anything train related, encourages me to always buy or get more stuff, etc.  We even built this house 30 years ago just so we could have a train room.  I have been very blessed with my family in so many ways. 

I lost my spouse almost 5 years ago. Now I live with an 11 year old girl who loves my trains. Her name is BINGO.

My wife tolerates my trains.  She does not like the smoke; however, she allowed me to move a piece a furniture out of the living room into the garage this year in order for me to make a bigger Christmas Layout.  She is not interested in setting anything up, but I believe she likes the village display along with the tree.  She is flexible when I start setting it up and when I take it down.  Ken

I run trains year round. I don't really think she understands it or is interested in it at all. She just views them as "very expensive toys".  That being said, she also knows how important they are to me & how it's something I share & enjoy w/ the kids.  She's also been on her fair share of railfan trips - bless her for that

My spouse is very supportive and she likes it as well as railfanning.  It has a lot to do with her dad having had a Lionel train when he was young.

I'm into the scale 3-rail side of the hobby; she's more into HO and N scale trains, and in O likes the Disney & Halloween trains.

My wife does OK.  I don't hide my train purchases, and don't ask in advance if $X is OK.  

Here is my good wife story:  My wife planned a train vacation for us last June.  We flew to NYC and took in a few off-Broadway shows.  We rode the train from NYC through the Andirodacs to Montreal Quebec.  There were interpreters in the club car that were great.

In Quebec, we took in the sights, took a cruise, explored the old town, and were there for the Jazz festival!!  The jazz festival is multiple days of no-charge open-air concerts.  And we took a boat to the old Olympic site on an island in the river and explored that.   Awesome!

Then, we took VIA to Toronto and explored that city (Montreal is more interesting), but we did go to the roundhouse and the roundhouse pub, and picked up some glasses to take home.  We also explored the Chinese section. 

Then, we rode the train from Toronto to Buffalo (over the Niagara river).  And flew home. 

Pretty decent support, which I appreciate.  She is just fine with a train around the tree.  -Ken

Benign indifference. 

Absolutely splendid!  But more importantly, what motivates you to ask?

Pete

Attaboy, Rod!!

Tollerates it most of the time, seldom supports it. The only thing she ever got viemently opposed to were two 6' Glen Snyder shelves I brought home from York! That unleashed a major league stink bomb.

Gilly

I'd like to think she despises it, but its much worse than that!

More like the "other woman"...

She is all in!

 Some posts on the forum really stick with me. I'm still laughing at this one! Hope you're not offended.

More like the "other woman"...

That's funny my wife refers to the hobby as Train Adultery.

Scott Smith.

" What do you mean thats a different one? It looks just like all of the other ones,black with a gray front"!

Sell!

My wife has always been great about my addiction.  She once fashioned me a birthday cake shaped and decorated as an ATSF loco.  For years she was able to surprise me with a needed loco at Christmas.  Now though, I don't need so much, but she is still totally supportive.  In fact, when we bought our current home she made sure that there was a place to convert for a permanent layout, and didn't balk at the amount of money necessary to do it.  She has also accompanied me to a great many train shows, and has arranged several AMTRAK trips for us.

My wife is very supportive and that says it all!!

Bill

My spouse of 30 years has no interest in my trains.  Him and his brothers had a train set growing up in the late 40's and early 50's but lost interest in it, and now none of them  have any idea what ever happen to it.  He is surprised that I still have my first set, a 2035, that I got 7 months before I was born in '61.  My dad said his first born would be a boy and he will have a train.  We have been to a few train shows and museums and he shows more interest in the real trains instead of the models.  His dad did work for Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio building real steam engines.