one of the funniest threads I've ever enjoyed........
I was upfront with my fiance, and she was upfront with me. I was autocrossing and crewing on an SSC team while we were dating, and she was complaining about it then. She hates racing - does not get into it at all - has no interest in ever getting into it. She absolutely cannot stand any penny being spent on racing, and does not want to be around cars. She made me sell some of my favorite cars because I "spent more time under the car than I did under her". (Funny, she didn't get pregnant until after I sold all the Shelby Dodge Turbo cars
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We've now been married 15 years - and she still hates it. I now club race occasionally. When I got my first victory, she could have cared less, but she bought a cake and had my parents over for dinner to celebrate when I got home, because she knew it was a big deal to me.
Then last year, I finally got her to come to a race to watch me! She loaded up all the kids and brought them 3 hours to the track. I wrecked out halfway through lap one, ruining a perfect race car <_< (maybe I'm better off without her at the track!)
Despite not being a racer, she is the rock in my life, and despite the fact she hates the hobby I am passionate about, I can not imagine my life without her. Ultimately she puts up with the racing because she loves me. And that is what matters, and that is why we'll still be married in another 15 years.