Hydra

[snakehill]

That's why my ex husband is my ex husband lol!!!

[aquamentus_11]

ha maybe i should listen then? you're confusing me

[snakehill]

Hey! If she wants to be with you and she knows you like snakes (or any other animal for that matter) she needs to be more tolerant(?) She should want you to be happy after all!!! PS she doesn't read these posts does she? lol

[mikem]

if someone told me i could only have one snake, that would be the end of that relationship

[aquamentus_11]

haha she doesn't read them.

[EasternGirl]

I don't know what to say about that one...I mean, this is why I have been single for so long...I just can't do the having to answer to someone else thing...the compromise thing. I guess that makes me sound selfish...but you get to a place in your life where you like your life and how it is...you just can't imagine someone coming in and telling you how to do things or that you have to do things differently or change things. I guess I just feel like people have the right to live however they want...and if you live with other people, you have to change things..and so...I don't live with anyone else. If I find someone that can accept me as is...no changes required...and I can accept them as is...no changes required..then I would consider a relationship. But don't listen to me...I'm old and jaded. Ha, ha... I guess if I were in your position, I would just sit her down and say.."Look...I love you and I see your point of view...but this is something that I want and that would make me happy...could you please try to understand that and live with it, for me?". If that doesn't work...you can always try denial..."How did that get there?" or "No, I'm telling you I always had two snakes" .

[aquamentus_11]

I told her that she'd get a freebie for something equally extreme that she wants to do at a later date, no matter how much I dislike it. it's going to happen, it's just a matter of the depth and length of her anger at this point.

[EasternGirl]

Okay...but just for the record...two little snakes...not extreme. A 12 foot python...extreme to some, probably not to most people on here. 20 little snakes...extreme to some, but not to anyone on here. A giant tattoo of a garter snake on your chest...extreme to some, wouldn't phase a lot of people...wouldn't phase me. If you were my boyfriend and you brought an alligator home and wanted to keep it in a kiddie pool in the living room...we might have to have a conversation.

[aquamentus_11]

yeah, but she never had pets as a kid. she even had to warm up to my cat. she likes animals, she'll come around. Hydra is resting her chin on the end of her tail while looped over the replica I have of the argonath (giant statues from The Lord of the Rings). she's a doll.

[EasternGirl]

I think she'll come around...I haven't met too many people that can resist the charm of garters. Even my ex, who is pretty much terrified of snakes, always looks in to see what my snakes are doing when he comes over now.