Does your Spousal Unit/Significant Other Support your Love of the Leaf?

[air1070]

Mine tolerates it to a point. She hates the fact that I smoke Cigarettes, which I have to give up...I know that. But I told her there is NO way in hell she is getting between me and my Cigars. So we have an understanding, but she still doesn't want me to smoke them in excess. She wants me to shoot for a one per week limit....But what she don't know, can't hurt her. :ss

[ultramag]

I think my wife is ok with it for the most part. I only got one your crazy look so far and that was 120 qt coolidor I just built. Falling fast. :ss

[BigDawgFan]

Mine actually started my habit earlier this year.She told me I looked sexy when smoking one when I was smokiing one with a friend who was back rom Iraq. She then bought me a humidor. Now she says I smell bad and is jealous as hell when I get trades, pifs, etc in the mail. She told me that they should have that for women and purses!!! To late now I'm hooked.

[jaycarla]

Mine is totally into it! She doesn't want to smoke a cigar, but she loves how much I love it.

I have a monthly cigar budget number and then we give ourselves each money each month to spend on whatever, no questions asked, funny money as we call it.

Needless to say I combine both cigar and funny money and find there are not many other things that I want to buy. Which begs the question, what crap was I spending that money on before?

[Nabinger16]

My girlfriend never really minded that I would find a B&M and grab a stick or two whenever we were on vacation, but I never had a humi or anything like that. My goddess of a girlfriend was the one that violently shoved me down the slope with the statement "Hey I got you something." She bought me a 200ct humi and 25 sampler of robs from the ISOM. So I'm guessing she's cool with my little hobby.
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After spending the best three years of my life with her, it might just be time to seal the deal with one of the shiny things.

[SMcGregor]

She tolerates it.. Even on a rear time to time she will smoke a flavored one with me.

[Beer Doctor]

My father-in-law bought me my humidor and fills it up on all major holidays so since Daddy smokes my wife has no problem with me smoking:ss. However, she thinks I obsess over it too much:confused:. I say I'm passionate:D. I just don't let her know how much I spend on it:hn

[hugecanoli]

My fiance knew how much I loved cigars before we even started dating, and she knows there are much worse things I could be doing with my time :r

She tells me that she is thankful that its so easy to buy gifts for me. I'm a lucky guy!

[Ye Olde Phart]

HELL, NO!

[rborrell]

She tolerates it, however it was her fault that I got into it.

[neoflex]

Mine finally came around. I think the fact that she knows that my life is usually a whirlwind and it's what usually gets me to settle down and relax helped a bunch too. Plus the fact that she knows that I enjoy the hobby aspect of it and that it has been a key to meeting some great people too. Mine would be happy with the one a week thing also and usually my hectic schedule, especially lately keeps her wishes true, but in the past I had the same attitude as you, "What she doesn't know, won't hurt her." If I came home smelling like gar smoke I would just say I stopped by the shop for a couple minutes to talk to someone. Most times that worked.(Insert evil smiley)

[field]

Mine tolerates, and joins me from time to time, but thinks my passion for it is over the top. Overall, extremely supportive "If you want them, and it is important to you, do it". Actual quote when we were in a B&M looking at some hard to find smokes. I am a very lucky guy.

:tu

[thassanice]

I used to smoke cigarettes and quit at the urging of my wife. I think that's why it's "more OK" to smoke cigars because she doesn't have the same negative perception. It's really sort of a compromise.

[FriendlyFire]

You should add Knows? or dosn't know?

[Ski1215]

My girlfriend doesnt like it, but she doesnt hate it. I'm courteous to her. I dont kiss her if I taste like it, or I won't smoke if I'm going to be around her for a while. About once and week she'll sit out with me, upwind, on the deck and have a few drinks with me.

[jjefrey]

Mine tolerates it, but she not thrilled about it.

[thrillafrommanila]

mines doesnt mind, but she does mind me spending alot of money on it :chkhahahaha

[Blue_R]

Doesn't mind. She finds it interesting that I don't have nicotine fits between smokes (two or three a week). I dipped for about 20 years and gave it about ten years ago.

[dunng]

Tolerates... for the most part. :ss

[beernut]

You should've included an option of "enjoys it", or "smokes them too". My wife will often smoke with me. Her current favorites are the CAO Brazilia, and Gurkha Fuerte.

However, she's not quite so supportive when she finds out how much I spend on the devil site. :hn

[hornitosmonster]

Tolerates It, but doesn't Like It because of the amount of $$$$ I spend. She doesn't mind the actually cigar smoking.

[wharfrathoss]

y'all some lucky SOB's, i'm jealous-mine hates it, makes commemts every chance she gets about how it stinks/makes me look old(?)/need to quit etc.-she tolerates the humis & coolers cause she doesn' t have much choice-i've already given up (voluntarily) most of my other vices, tobacco & coffee ain't goin' nowhere

i have recently got her to let me smoke a pipe in the house, we'll see if that lasts thru the winter!

[BarneyBandMan]

Mine likes the smaller cigars and will often light up with me

[SmokeyJoe]

My wife kind of got me started... then she was not too sure about it. :confused:
Then she got kind of curious... read a couple of my CA magazines and loosened up a lot. THEN, she did this last Father's Day: http://www.clubstogie.com/vb/showthread.php?t=83931

Since then, she has really been pretty cool... even smoked a couple. She isn't into it, but doesn't protest it anymore either. Just wants me to "not overdo it." :r :r :r Yeah... right!

[smokin5]

My cigar smoking & hoarding? She has no problem with it.

My time spent on Club Stogie? She hates it. She thinks I should spend more time talking with her about redecorating the house
or other "important" matters.:ss

[macjoe53]

Good question. My wife doesn't say anything about it but that's probably because I don't smoke cigarettes at all. I very rarely smoke cigars around her and I never smoke in the house. It's not because I'm whipped either. We have one daughter that has severe allergies and asthma so I have never smoked a cigar in the house.

I've also always felt that I could enjoy my cigar pleasures better if I don't have to be concerned about offending people I love.

[tedrodgerscpa]

Mine is totally into it! She doesn't want to smoke a cigar, but she loves how much I love it.


If things don't work out, give her my number :tu

My wife is O.K. with once a week, but I'm on number 2 this week... What day is it? Tuesday? Oops :D

Unless, of course, she's a colts fan, too... then DON'T give her my number!

[jjirons69]

She's fine with it. A good woman most would say. I think if we had the ability not to worry about money, she's be fine with a nice humi full of boxes. The tightness of funds drives any issues she has with it. She knows I'm very driven and compulsive about things that get into my head. I'm respective and careful. I know my boundaries, but test them frequently. :ss

[Glacierman]

Can't cast a vote because the category I would pick (Totally supports your habit) isn't there.

My wife supports my cigar smoking to the point that she:
1. Allows me to smoke in the house/car.
2. Encourages me to buy high quality sticks.
3. Often adds more to the pile when I am ready to check out at the B&M
4. Has developed a pretty good idea of what I like/don't like.
5. Figures I should keep a steady supply of the really good ones on hand.

One of the many reasons I married her! :ss

[trogdor | the burninator]

mine would rather i not, but i'd rather she not shop so much....so....there you have it. :)

[Golfman]

Well I am single... So I can do pretty much whatever I want... Although in the future I really don't see a problem, I usually only smoke a cigar once or twice a week at night to relax. Doesn't really interfere with anything. So when that hot blond with huge breasts, an apple bottom and gorgeous physique comes into my life I don't see a problem, she cant hate it if the habit is in real moderation. Besides, if your significant other loves you, im sure she can put up with it to some extent.

[TripleF]

Absolutely not.

[sailchaser]

I am lucky that my wife will rate the sticks I smoke and let me know which ones she like better than others and then fill the humi with surprise sticks that she picks up:ss

[Tidefan73]

Where's the "Smokes with me" choice?!?!

Jen partakes from time to time, but she usually sits with me on the deck will I light up every night!!

[muziq]

Where's the "Smokes with me" choice?!?!

Jen partakes from time to time, but she usually sits with me on the deck will I light up every night!!

:tpd: The woman I just started seeing a few weeks ago likes cigars. As our first dinner date was winding down, she said the magic words: "let's go back to your place and have a cigar." I *almost* asked her to marry me on the spot!

[Tripp]

My girlfriend is the BEST. I always talk about the cigars that I like, and she makes a point to know what I like, so she can bomb me on any special occasions. She sometimes enjoy's the smell, depending on what I'm smoking. And whenever we go on a long drive, she even lets me smoke in her car. Eventually she even wants to smoke a cigar, but after being a cigarette smoker for the last 6 years(quit this year), she's afraid she can't not inhale.

[SuperDave]

My wife tolerates my new interest in cigars. She gets a little jealous after a 1/2 hour. I started inviting her out on the porch to have a drink while I smoke my cigar, and [shudder] even "talk" about stuff. More than one every other day and I can tell she's getting intolerant. She can't understand why I buy more when I already have plenty...I have to tell her it's like her buying shoes, then she backs off for awhile. She loves me and tells me I can smoke whenever I want, but I've learned I better not come to bed with the cigar taste still in my mouth.

[Coz77]

Mine has defiantly come around...shes totally cool with it as long as i'm not stinking up the house. Plus i think she enjoys the time we have on the deck just unwinding. Shes got her bottle of wine and I have my 7 and stogie....Ahhh good times....good times!


You should add Knows? or dosn't know?

Jack...how the hell are you still hiding it?...especially with that new humi you just got??? You're nuts bro....NUTS!

[bbaug14]

My finacé tolerates it. When I got my first humidor (50ct. and I have a 200ct. on order right now!) she told me that she was upset because she was going to get me one as a gift. Honestly, I wish she had gotten it instead so I could blame my new found love on her. She's fine with it as long as it doesn't become an obsession....which it has. :tu

She doesn't get on my case when I smoke or anything like that, but thinks that I could have taken up a more productive hobby. Oh well I guess. As long as I can smoke without too much strife, I'm happy....

[rockyr]

My wife doesn't mind. She even asks "are going to have a cigar tonight?" She actually insisted I buy my Avallo Cooled 2000 humidor when I outgrew the wine coolerdor. The only time she gives me grief is when I buy cigars that I don't have room to store. I truly love that woman!! :ss

[gvarsity]

One of the biggest sore spots in our relationship. She has some very bad associations with cigars from her dad who was a jackass. She doesn't ask and I don't tell. I don't smoke around the house even in the yard except if she is gone. There are a couple local places I'll go for a smoke and then when I get home I do my best to minimize the smell. I understand why she has such a strong reaction and I appreciate that she has not tried to tell me I can't have cigars. Still it blows to essentially have to hide it from her to keep the peace. That said she's a great wife and I'm very happily married.

[Darrell]

Danielle does not hate it, she enjoys the smell of them, but she thinks they taste nasty. She does not want me smoking like 1 a day for fear of the long term health effects, I usually only have 3 or so a week, so she's fine with it. She does however think I spend TOO MUCH money on them and does not understand why I have to buy more, when I haven't smoked the ones I have. :r

[solafid3]

She likes it when I smoke a pipe and tolerates when I smoke cigars.

[Giovanni]

My wife doesn't mind me smoking the cigars. She does dislike the fact that I go overboard and buy two boxes of cigars when I already have two humidors and a coolidor full of cigars.
:ss

[Bruin7]

My wife calls my cigars turds. She thinks they look like poop. She's not a fan of the leaf but prefers them to cigarettes. She hasn't dropped the hammer yet so hopefully she never has a problem with me smoking my cigars. I don't smoke in the house so it doesn't bother her.

[BeersOnTheBoat]

Given a choice between a cigar a day and stress, high blood pressure and general grumpiness the cigars are the lesser of two evils. These days, something's gotta give.

[Bob]

Wife likes them and smokes her own and has her own tastes and style with them.:bl

[tedrodgerscpa]

Given a choice between a cigar a day and stress, high blood pressure and general grumpiness the cigars are the lesser of two evils. These days, something's gotta give.

Keep trying to sell mine on that theory...

She says "why not hit the treadmill instead?"

meh... I think NOT

[The Pict]

My wife is happy I've found a hobby that I enjoy so much and occasionally joins me in the backyard for a taste of my real ones and a flavored one of her own. In fact, she really enjoys the tools and toys that go along with it and has bought me a beautiful Xtend lighter and a couple of leather wrapped one finger tubes as a suprise.
The only thing she worries about are my lengthy 'gang' meetings we call herfs, although she has been known to join the Valley Herf from time to time so she realizes most of my BOTLs are fairly good guys.:D

[homeless_texan]

Can't cast a vote because the category I would pick (Totally supports your habit) isn't there.

My wife supports my cigar smoking to the point that she:
1. Allows me to smoke in the house/car.
2. Encourages me to buy high quality sticks.
3. Often adds more to the pile when I am ready to check out at the B&M
4. Has developed a pretty good idea of what I like/don't like.
5. Figures I should keep a steady supply of the really good ones on hand.

One of the many reasons I married her! :ss

I'll add another to this list...

6. I just uncrated the Aristocrat Mini that my wife bought me for an anniversary present, and now it's seasoning time. :ss

[ttours]

As Bill Clinton would say "What is your definition of support"?:tu

TT:cb

[Perry72]

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[Smoked]

She just hates it when I smoke in the house. The worst thing so far happened today when she looked at our bank account and asked what I spent 180.00 on and the answer was cigars.

[BigFrankMD]

Mine doesnt mind, just when she sees a package come just about everyday in the mail she gets a little pissed hahahah. Damn you joe cigar and cbid.

[EJWells]

My wife tolerates that I enjoy this great hobby; however, when golf thrown into the mix, that is a different story.

[RPB67]

She tolerates it.

Does she like it ...........probabbly not. But she smokes and its just to bad.

[Leitner]

My husband is great about it and he'll even share a smoke with me once in a while. He did, however, go into thermo-nuclear meltdown when he saw how much I've spent on cigars lately. :hn

[Coyote7]

You should've included an option of "enjoys it", or "smokes them too". My wife will often smoke with me. Her current favorites are the CAO Brazilia, and Gurkha Fuerte.

However, she's not quite so supportive when she finds out how much I spend on the devil site. :hn

I think there should definitely be a bubble for "encourages the addiction" also:ss
Only part that sucks is the spending when purchasing for two. :hnWe usually have similar tastes and compromise where we can.

My husband started me on this slippery slope...actually, he pretty much just tossed me down it:r

[Coyote7]

My husband is great about it and he'll even share a smoke with me once in a while. He did, however, go into thermo-nuclear meltdown when he saw how much I've spent on cigars lately. :hn

Get him a Padron anny...How can he resist then?:chk

[chippewastud79]

She isn't a big fan of it. She doesn't quite understand the complexity of it, she just finds it disgusting without understanding the fun of it. I am always courteous about it and hopefully in time she will come around.

On a different side, my best friend smokes as well and his wife says that it is something he is going to do anyway so she just has to deal with it. I think I need to get the girls to hang out more.

[Stonefox]

She says the smell of a good cigar reminds her of her grandfather. So she usually like the smell of a cigar unless it is a bad cigar, and she will let me know if a particular cigar smells bad to her. So far no CC's have smelled bad to her:D

[Cheeto]

My family doesn't like the idea too much, but they don't complain or tell me to stop or anything. Of course when they see a bomb in the mail I always get asked "don't you think you're going a little overboard?" :r:r

[jaharr]

I usually smoke 'em on my deck. My wife enjoys the smell of a good cigar, and she'll tell me when I'm smoking one that is not. As long as I keep the smoke out of the house I'm fine.

[slowhand]

Where's the option of: Who cares what she thinks about it.

[Savvy]

I voted that she tolerates it, but doesn't like it. However, last night I was talking to her and she said that she didn't mind it, so thats good. She also made mention that she'll try one with me sometime :tu. Now I just need to figure out which kind I should offer to her haha. I'm surprised that shes going to try one though, so I'm hoping to give her one that won't scare her away from them forever.:ss

[guy g]

Mine has absolutly no problem at all with it. In the beginning she would stop at the smoke shop when her mom bought cigs and would look through their small humi. I can send her to the B&M with a list (if I'm not near the house ) and AL will go thru it and help get everything. Cant beat that!!