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My GF bitched me out last night because she said I wouldn't stop talking about Bitcoin and I wasn't paying enough attention to her and all I did was watch stupid boring charts. Then she reiterated her point that BTC is illegal and will be shutdown eventually (ironic she says that because she is an attorney and has no freaking clue what BTC is).  Then she put her hands on her hips and told me if I was making so much money I needed to take her to a nice dinner or else there was no point being together! lol!

So I am thinking of dumping her? Anyone else ended a relationship over BTC? haha

Dude major dump. Who in the right mind has the nerve to call bitcoin boring ?

Time to look for a new GF  :D

Dump her. Bitcoin is irrelevant here - it won't matter what your interests or hobbies are, she'll react the same way. Find somebody who will share your interests, or at least will allow you to have other interests besides her.

That's a good point. Every time I focus on something she over reacts and says I am paying no attention to her. I would do a poll but I have a feeling it would be lopsided in the "dump" category. lol

Just out of curiosity, are there even any women on this forum? lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism)

3% or so

I think most are here to do "tits for bit."

Bitcoin is like a religion, sacrifices are inevitable.

My wife is so adept at BTC now, she actually has taken over fixing crashed mining comps at the house while I am at work.  

Sexy, and smart!  

+1  I think its the whole lawyer deal... she thinks she is a really big deal and should always be the center of attention.

I am envious... I tried teaching my GF how to restart my miners... and wow.... that ended in a disaster!

Told my gf about the coin, forced her (talked profit potential) to buy a grand worth at $18.

Let's just say she's very appreciative.  ;)

Yep, either gotta rope 'em in or rope 'em off  ;D

Just wanted to say hello and that the title of the thread should be Significant Others.

(there are girls who are into btc too)

Yes

This would have me dump my Mrs straight away! Luckly mine understands I have hobbies and doesnt need me to be the centre of her world all the time..... but yeah, I sometimes get it in the neck also for looking at my graphs all the time....

Upto you... do you love bitcoin or your girlfriend more :)

Let's see.... one makes me money.... one costs me money! lol

Anyone who would break up with their girlfriend over their opinion of bitcoin is a sad SOB imo. That's like breaking up with her because of her religion, or simply for her political views. If you break up with her, make it because she's generally irrational on all subjects and is unworkable as a partner for the long term. Otherwise, I would be telling her "time to find another boyfriend".

My girlfriend watches the open orders charts all the time with interest, and she's often wanted to learn to be a day trader simply because of bitcoin. Where did you find your girlfriend?

Have you ever explained it to her, or better yet, has she ever asked what exactly it is?

Just tell them they are worth $90 apiece and then they will go :o and you will be ;D

Thread name changed :) Glad to here there are some ladies on here!

Yes I have tried to explain it several times but she doesn't care to hear about it. Although she finally just texted me she would buy some since I told her the price is about to hit $90. I have been trying to get her interested in it since it was at like $18. lol

We met at the gym actually.

I have the same problem, only I'm married :P
She just jokes around about my interest in BTC, however, she's very excited about me getting enough money to pay the mortgage, I told her I won't be spending my coins anytime soon!!! :)

what this guy said.

I often get the feeling most people troll in regards to dating advice :X

If you're married they're not deathcode's coins, but deathcode couple's ones (fucking english yours/yours)

Politics and religion are excellent reasons to break up with a girlfriend. Better a breakup now than a divorce later.

1 internet for you sir

Haters: note that he said that they're excellent reasons to break up, he didn't say that different points of view about religion/politics WILL make a couple end in a divorce

+1

Judging by the responses, I'd be surprised if anyone responding wasn't single.

Nope, but I started earlier, because a relationship ended.


There are only a few, because… uhm… we don't sell shoes here?  ::)

Happily married.

Once you're older and have been married for a few years to the right person, you'll look back at your earlier self and wonder why you put up with all those crazy bitches for so long.

Keep thinking that, that's your problem if you can live with people that don't value what you like
I personally need someone that at least try to understand why I like the things I like, which clearly isn't the case here
And "Judging by the responses, I'd be surprised if" I was the only one

inb4 everybody googles it

But the crazy bitches are usually the best in bed! lol Perhaps one day I will grow out of them....

My ex-gf was violently against Bitcoin, but that was not the reason we broke up.  I chatted with her the other day and couldn't help but brag about being up North of 100-grand.  Her first response was 'why don't you sell them?'  Of course.

Most of the other women in my life are smart and tolerant.  Most of them have no trouble understanding the secure blockchain aspects of the solution, but are certainly not fascinated by it as is the case with a fraction of my male friends.  Of course most of my male friends are not fascinated by it either, but the gender difference does seem to be noticeable.

The position I and my interested friends have adopted is just to not talk about Bitcoin around the lady-folk.  At least until we are up by more than 100% which seems to soften the tone somewhat.  Easy enough to do these days with the rising tide floating all boats and such.

I guess maybe Bitcoin is most suitable for gay males.  Come to think of it, it was one of the things that bound Bruce and is partner together it seemed.

Tommy!

100% yes to this!  Disagreements on religion or politics (or money) is a HUGE red flag when talking about getting married.  You've got to be on the same page with your spouse on anything that either of you feel passionately about, or it's very likely going to end badly.  People have euphoric views on how they will change their spouse's viewpoint, or how it doesn't really matter and they'll just work it out, but that doesn't match reality.

Source:  Happily married for almost 7 years now.

That and a male prostitution business.

Dump her  ;D

I'm single and when I'm on a date (never a first date) I love to talk about Bitcoin and explain how it works just to test the other person's reaction. I honestly don't care whether they like Bitcoin or not; it is really just a test of how open minded they are to new ideas, especially ideas which conflict with something they already believe. If they aren't capable of adopting new concepts and ideas, how are they going to share new concepts with me? One person to whom I explained Bitcoin had no response. When I asked for one I just got "Well it's interesting, I just don't think it'll work."  

As if it doesn't already work.

For a variety of reasons I don't talk to that person anymore.

Well, if everyone believe it'd work, then great ideas would be automatic successes.

The Apple computer and the HP exec telling Woz that they weren't interested in a personal computer...
IBM execs telling Bill Gates the money was on the hardware...
MP3's
e-mail
file sharing services
streaming...
so many ideas were perceived as flawed or unfeasible...
But anyways, I'm off-topic here :)

This can also mean that you simply agree to disagree on some subjects.

For instance, just because one person is an Atheist and another is Roman Catholic does not mean that they'd be bad for each other. As long as neither of them is a preachy, foaming-at-the-mouth extremist type of person, they should be able to get along fine in that regard.

Of course, religion and politics are only a measly two variables in the equation of a relationship.

You basically illustrated my point. One girl says "I don't think bitcoin will work", so a neckbeard breaks up with her instead of just being patient because "fuck anyone who has a different religious, political or technological opinion than me!".  ::)

Except that's not what happened.

You're right, my bad. It wasn't a disagreement at all, it was OP neglecting his responsibilities as a boyfriend. lol

Bitcoin was a major source of contention between myself and my late wife. I bought in July, 2011 at around $14/BTC. I cashed out $10k from one of my IRAs, I saw the potential in Bitcoin and knew it would be big. I traded a bit at MtGox as it went down and got up to 800BTC. Then I got on Bitcoinica as the price dropped a lot and desperate to get my money back I did a lot of shorting and a lot of losing bitcoins. I pulled everything out of there as it appeared that manipulation was a bit too precise in taking my BTC away. I had about 250 BTC left. I pretty much had to tell my wife that the whole Bitcoin thing was a wash and that there was no money there. I was constantly reminded that I "threw away 10 thousand dollars on your stupid Bitcoins".

Finally last October we were buying a house and needed $5,000 toward the down payment. Bitcoin was at about $11/BTC around then. We were scraping what we could get for the $5,000. I borrowed $2,500 from my brother and finally broke down and cashed out the rest of my bitcoins for the rest.

Losing a loved one you play a lot of "what if"s. Had Bitcoin jumped like this last year instead of this year I likely would not have had to go to Afghanistan to get out of our financial problems and I could have been home with my wife...

But anything can happen in life.

She used to also complain about my time wasted supporting Ron Paul. Even though she supported him too, she knew that any action supporting him was a waste of time because they would never let him win.

Exactly why I said "either of you feel passionately about".  If either the Atheist or the Roman Catholic felt passionately about their religious views, in most cases, that marriage will end badly.  Not in all cases, certainly, but in most cases, yes.  At the very least, it'll be a source of tension/contention in the marriage.

lol! I knew I should have never skipped chapter 12 in The Bitcoin Bro Guide: "Ways to seduce her and slowly make her fall in love with Bitcoin" and went straight to Chapter 13: "Things women will do for some BTC after a few too many drinks."

Funny, this chick also ragged on me for spending time supporting Ron Paul as well. Speaking of Ron Paul, anyone know if he has publicly supported Bitcoin or if he even knows about it?

I'm currently in a great "battle" with my wife over Bitcoin.

We have some stashed away for the kids and there is no argument about those.

One of our businesses has accepted bitcoin for about 2 years and it causes "discussions".

Wife: "That bloke paid us when Bitcoin was at $4.50.  For god's sake sell them."

She has been saying that since $9.
I managed to delay the action until it hit AUD$70/BTC a piece.
Buying selling only 10 at the price, our entire COG for all bitcoin transactions was paid for.
The rest of the businesses coins remain "under discussion".

We have some stashed away for ourselves and there has been no discussion on those except when the topic of $100 a coin was raised.

Wife: "Can we offload 20 BTC at $100?"
Me: "What for?"
Wife: "2000% profit!"
Me: "Meh...If it hits a $100 we will have this chat again."

To be continued until death do us part...

This, I believe, is what people seem to be missing. Dump her because she's a lawyer.

And..


redundancy is redundant

Dates are scarcer than bitcoins or hen's teeth.

Bitcoin has shown the light of the fact that there are things in life besides women, and single men don't have to sulk. :)

So I read my girlfriend this thread and she said in response to the OP, "That sucks for him. He should dump her."

This, coming from a girl who had four batch 3 Avalon modules sitting in a shopping cart this past Monday, mumbling, "is it really worth it..."

She didn't pull the trigger.

And that's when I knew.... she was a keeper  :'(

Very good point. Every time she gets pissed at me she threatens to sue me for something.

She sounds like a snotty, spoiled cunt.

Dump.

So... Is it done?

He isn't sure about Bitcoin, but he did talk about it. There's a radiocast on the reddit someplace where he was interviewed. He said that Bitcoin is a sign that people are looking for sound money and that much of it is good, but that he's not up to speed on the technical side and can't guarantee it's not a ponzi.

Wouldn't it be funny if she sawed off half of you BTC stash :)

I'm absolutely going to have a pre-nup before I tied the knot.  Translated:  I'll likely be remaining single.

lol! Yeah, we both from day one have agreed if we ever did (now not likely) we would get a prenup. But if she ever tried to take my stash I would take a magnet to my pc right away, drill a hole in my HD and then light it on fire in front of her. Then go did up the flash drive I have buried in the backyard when she is not looking and run! lol! j/k

There are no women on the internet.

When ever I think about selling some btc, my wife talks me out of it.  When ever she thinks about selling some I talk her out of it.  So far its worked very well!
But last night... we stayed up late and spent a bunch of btc at the bitcoinstore.  We have been needing a couple more computers and finally bought them along with some other things.

Often we discuss where that valid line of government should be (usually in the libertarian/anarchist spectrum) and how such should/could be implemented.

She doesn't "waste" her time on the forums, but she stays informed of all the drama, news, happenings.  We would both be attending the Bitcoin conference, but we have a little baby and she has a sister in San Jose.  So she's making me go convention, while she has a vacation.

And my daughter, she gets insulted if I offer her cash instead of btc for helping with Bees Brothers or any other paying job.  So her $6 coins have treated her well.

Our biggest area of disagreement tends to be if certain politicians should be shot or hung. ;)

Miss bitcoin wanted  ;)

I second that motion!

This. But also....

My girlfriend doesn't understand bitcoin, feels that I am ignoring her at night now when I am home, until bedtime....if you know what I mean. But all in all she has been great about it. 2 years of me 'ignoring' her, and I actually have spent some coin on her because of my wise investments....so I tend to think the amount of time BTC can take up would stress any relationship, but if your significant other respects you enough to know that your time and hobbies are yours as well as theirs, and you don't spend 26 hours a day obsessing about one thing, whether it be btc or something else, there is more than enough time in the day for a healthy relationship and a life-consuming hobby such as this.

And to the guy who's wife,gf...whatever fixes his rigs....thanks, I am going to be training my gf up and hopefully teach her the way of the coin this weekend....she will probably ask me for a tip. and I got just the one for her.

My lady has done nothing but encourage my joining the BTC community and is very interested when she asks what I'm doing as I refresh MtGox/BTCjam/These forums. You should get a better girlfriend.

So I told her about this thread and all the comments people have made (left a few of the more descriptive ones out haha)... twenty minutes later she came in with $300 in cash and said "buy me some Bitcoin, everyone else you have convinced has been making money." I said: "Ok, its not all about making money though.... its about a revolutionary new way to take the power of currency from the hands of corrupt banksters and put it in the hands of we the people."

She seems to be warming up to this crazy idea we call Bitcoin.

Did she change her mind about the pre-nup? :)

The current attraction to the coin seems to be money. I have found that introducing people to the money aspect first brings them to the realization that there is more to it than that. My co-workers, in the past month, have seen their investments in my way of living this life increase exponentially, and now they are getting into the community/idea of this wonderful movement we are a part of. I am just waiting for their posts in the introduction thread. But it is my fault for not telling them to just jump in. So guys from OGRFX, if you're reading this....JOIN NOW!.

And congrats on getting her to invest. I'm selling a small portion at 90 if you want to do a direct sale ;)

Certain things are important. You don't have to agree on them, but you should be able to be civil and discuss them with respect to one another.
I'm glad shes coming around to it, but she still seems like she doesn't respect you much. :\

I would have taken you up on that and avoided the $15 Bitinstant fee on $300, but sadly we already bought it together... thanks though!. OMG we bought our first BTC together... such a huge first! lol

If you like it you better put a satoshi on it?

I apologize for that, my brain starts going full retard around 10:30 :P

lol!

Remember:  There's at least a little bit of truth behind every joke.

I've been married to my wife for almost 13 years (and we've been together for almost 23 - don't tell Dr. Laura though, she'd be pissed!).  My wife has never really understood Bitcoin, and would readily admit as much.  We've discussed it on and off since I discovered it in early 2012, and she does understand the concepts to a point, but definitely not the intricacies.  What she does understand though is that I think it is important, and that's been enough.  She supports me as it has gone up, and also understands that it is possible that for any number of reasons it could go to zero.  Although I've not invested straight cash into BTC, I have purchased hardware to mine, so indirectly I have.

In short, she doesn't support Bitcoin...she supports me...and I, her.  Bitcoin is just one current topic of many in our lives, but I know the support is constant.  So does she.

I would honestly ask yourself if this really has anything at all to do with Bitcoin?

Best of luck to you...and to her.

Make it official. 
Put your vows in the block chain :) 

 ;D ;D
Dump the bitch! lol  :o

me?

had the same problem. Gave her a paper wallet showing that she can look at the value  on blockchain.org. Now she has more in bitcoin than fiat and the problem has been solved.

In hysterics over this thread to be honest lol and I'm single


I'm single and I've talked to people about Bitcoin, if anyone makes any stupid comments I just laugh at them because by the time they've spoken the value has risen again :P I haven't really talked much to the girls I know about it though because I don't think they'd be interested but the ones that I have have had the balls to say they don't know anything about it so :P Guess I just know intelligent girls, I can't stand the dumb girls with princess syndrome which is probably why I haven't got a g/f yet >_<.

Um... Am I the only one who would not share the wallet password with my girlfriend?  :o

After I began talking about bitcoin more and more when the rally began, my gf was like "Good for you but I'm not really interested". I kept talking about it... So a few days ago she bought 2 BTC. Well I bought them for her and since that she watches the BTC chart every day at work :D

Everyone I tell bitcoins about they think I'm nuts, an idiot, stupid, ponzi, etc.

I got forced a friend to buy 1 coin at $40, he checks the charts every day.


Hell... I even have rich people I know try to get to jump aboard... they want nothing to do with it, they say the above ^^^ even after they see the price rise.

dump da bitch

My gf used to get so mad over it.
Your not alone. If you like her, make some time for her. Bitcoin will still be here, she may not.

I'm the local hero at work. Since we reached $100 and the news flooded the media, several coworkers came and told me "Hey, that bitcoin stuff is doing fine no?" "You going to retire?" "How many do you have?" "Man, I would sell everything right now" "The bubble is about to pop" "I'm not joining the ponzi".

I've been pestering them since $20 so the range of different reactions is pretty understandable :). However they refuse to buy! I guess they just think they missed the boat.

Sounds too familiar :P

I remember when was $10 and some of my friends where shocked that something virtual can cost 10$ for them it was obviously a bubble.
140, same reaction.

My g/f says she is afraid I am going to get into trouble for not paying taxes on all of the money I make from bitcoin. She doesnt like it at all, and refuses to listen to anything I say in reference to bitcoin. She says I sit on the computer all day and play with my btc..

Ive advised her to invest some money in btc aswell, and she says no.. We're complete opposites. She is closed minded, go with the flow, do what everyone else is doing, and all about status quo, I am open minded, always blazing my own trail, and trying to live life to its fullest. I dont think working for the man, or working for someone else has ever freed anyone. I believe in family values, and spending time with your family. She harps on me for spending 8+ hours/day researching btc, looking at charts etc, while my daughter is at school, but she thinks nothing of her sitting on facebook all night when her daughter is home, showing her no attention..
Somethings wrong with her for sure. lol Ive been contemplating a break up for a while, but still love her very much. Its hard to compromise with a female ;) No offense ladies.

Similar story here. I kept fairly quiet about it, but somehow I keep getting stopped in the halls and asked things like "hey, you're really into Bitcoin aren't you?". A few have asked if they should get into mining with GPUs, which always ends up being a half-hour discussion about difficulty increases, ROI, hashrates of various hardware configurations, etc. I don't proselytize ASICs, usually, as I really don't want to be responsible for the potential buyer's remorse of buying a BFL ASIC.  ;D

As for the girlfriend, she got a bit fussy in 2011 when NewEgg's packages arrived and I spent a solid 72 hours pumped full of adderall building out my 6950 rigs. That ended around the same time we had a fully bitcoin-funded weekend getaway. I gave her 5BTC back in February with the option to cash them out or keep them as an investment. She kept 'em, and I pretty much have a free pass to do whatever bitcoin-related activities I want now.

She even has Zhou Tonged's "Holding" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG1qooBzE2w (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG1qooBzE2w)) just about memorized now, huehuehue.