Q: How do I justify buying the .... to my partner?

[silentrage]

or just get a partner who loves it when you play guitar? and gets turned on and pounces on you like a wild jungle tiger cub?
:D

or, as in prozacbears case.... share a damb fine hobby with your partner so you can both get excited by the purchases.  ( the seperate bank accounts makes a lot of sense.  Most of my purchases get rounded down quite a bit by the time they reach my girlfriends ears - what she doesnt know aint a problem!!!)


i must admit my girlfriend is probably a bit tired of guitar talk after 10 years but it is one of the things we first spoke about and i think i may have even invited her round to play on my new trans green epiphone LP and old vox amp when i was 17, what a charmer!!  She had just had a new strat at the time but couldnt remeber what they were called, she knows so much more now... and i am a much worse guitar player than i was at 17!!!!

Or do it like Petrucci, marry a metal guitarist :/  

Before i bought my JV a week ago i had allready crossed the GAS consideration limit since i had allready bought 3 guitars since october :oops:

Anyway, after she made it clear to me no other guitar would enter this house without me selling a considerable amount first i just told her to trust me on this one, bought it and hooked it up to my well kept secret chorus and my BB. That did the convincing bit fair enough, she just fell in love with the strat sound instantly. Ill guess another week of doing some emo songs and im OK to rock it again 8)

You know I have forseen this scenario even though I'm not married yet.
Which is why I keep some mr.big and Extreme ballads handy.

[Henk]

Most of my purchases get rounded down quite a bit by the time they reach my girlfriends ears - what she doesnt know aint a problem!!!)

Shhhhhh..... my wife may read this :lol:

Still its kind off cool to let my wife see that some of the guitars i bough when i was younger have at least doubled in value by now. Actually i think she knows quite well howmuch i am spending, still she also knows me well enough to see i need the distraction of a good hobby(got on the edge of a burnout after working 5 years for 100+ hours a week).

Allthough i lost alot of my abilities on a guitar in the years i had no time to play, i now just dont try to compare my playing too much and just enjoy it as a hobby, which i approach quite different than when i was young, back then it was my life, now i just enjoy everything all over again but from a different perspective.