I was lucky and was single for 11 years, while I was making decent money, so that was when I could buy most of them, though my wife has bought me 2 or 3 guitars (depending how you count it, as she bought me a new PRS single cut when they first came out, and I wasn't really into it, so I took it back and got the Artist and a J-185 acoustic. The other she asked me about first and I got the Ibanez GB-10). My ex-wife on the other hand would have been driving me crazy by now (she was doing when we were married and I only had 10 guitars then!).