Why oh why

I got no balls. If she hates two of fifty, God bless her. She hates only two, btw

I keep my tobacco and pipes in drawers. It is not obvious to the casual observer that i smoke pipe. I have had friends over who ask "what is that smell, what have you been cooking" in a positive way, enjoying it.

I think many peoples perception of the smell of pipe smoke is affected by the prior knowledge that it is pipe smoke, and whatever prejudices they have about that.

I had one classic experience in Vienna, at an outdoor cafe, where a woman gave me a kind of a dirty look when I took out my pipe, but then let me know she really liked the smell and could I "blow" a little more in her direction.

Its complicated.

Some of the stronger aromatics seem to smell good to civilians. I have had luck with Cult Blood Red Moon. I think that stuff can be used as a room de-oderizer.

My dog also dislikes Dark Fired Kentucky.

I only smoke Penzance on the porch..If I smoked it in the house I would probably be sleeping on the porch.

Yes, yes I am, thank you very much.

I keep my pipes and tobacco on display in lighted cabinets, but we never have any company over, so it doesn't matter. I don't smoke in public because I am never doing anything out of the house that would allow it. I don't travel more than 10 minutes from my house for weeks at a time.

If the worst people I met in life were Dubliners, I would be a very happy man.

My Golder Retriever seemed to like everything I smoked.  In fact, she seemed to like everything about me and was an amiable and loving companion.

The wife, on the other hand. . . .

I kept the dog.....   

It can be tough. Especially if you started smoking after getting married. If you were smoking before you got married then its just one of your features, that has to be managed or tolerated or accounted for. But if you started long after getting married it can feel like one of those change of policy memos you get at work where all of a sudden what you signed up for ain't what you signed up for.

Now if the two of you started smoking pipe at the same time, you have hit the jackpot, and everyone will be jealous of you.

Here is another facet to the discussion.

First off its not a male/female thing its a spouse thing. I will use the traditional male and female because I'm a guy, but I mean it which ever way it can be meant

I play music, and in our musical community there are many non-musical spouses. One thing I have noticed more often than not is that a feeling can develop, a kind of jealousy. A spouse wants to know she is your one and only love. She doesn't seriously think your guitar or your pipe is competition literally, but in a way it competes with her for your attention. And yea, a resentment can develop over time, like cake in a briar, and express itself indirectly. What's being said isn't always what is being said.

A good smoke can leave her feeling like you dance with your pipe and not with her. She wants to be what you go on and on about, what you write poetry about, what you look up on the internet. She doesn't want to wait behind the pipe, the guitar, the MG in the garage. She wants to be the one you long for and go to for such transcendent and seemingly intimate pleasure and to be valued as such.

So again, the outsider of the threesome (you-pipe-spouse or you-guitar-spouse) can be the male, I see it in the musical community more than somewhat, so everything I mentioned goes both ways and says nothing about women, as much as it does about love and relationships in general.

But it explains why I am looking for a pipe smoking banjo player with whom I can be happy forever.

I started my affair with my pipe after we got married.

As many know, my wife isn't the biggest fan. However, weirdly enough I smoke while my wife has a glass of gin or prosecco, so there's no sense of jealousy. It's like we're swingers in that respect so neither can be jealous of the other's pleasure.