My wife is constantly critical of my hobbies. Not in an active way, but in a passive way.
She doesn't share my enthusiasm for, say, Star Trek prop replicas (few people do...) and I totally get that. There are not many people who would understand the months of work I put into making an exact replica of a Trek communicator.
Thing is, she loves flashlights!
She'd never admit it though.
Here's what happens: she will complain about me spending money on flashlights, chargers, batteries etc, and roll her eyes when I talk about them, but every time I get a new flashlight, it has to pass her 'test' first.
When a new light arrives in the mail, she grabs it off me, inspects it, and if she likes it, she keeps it
It doesn't happen often, but I find myself losing flashlights all the time.
I was looking for a favorite of mine today, the Hugsby P2. Only a cheapie, but I really like this light and I wanted to play around with it.
I asked my wife (the last person who had seen it alive) and she admitted to 'borrowing' it, and I just spent the last hour trying to retrieve her old pocket books out of closets and hunt through them to find my light (to no avail )
I wouldn't mind one bit if she just admitted that she has a problem, and that she's just as much of a flashaholic as I am, but she stubbornly denies it.
When I perform an upgrade for her, it is evident that it is very important to her that her light is at least as bright, if not brighter than my brightest light.
Does anyone else have this problem with a loved one?
Should I do an intervention?