Well, I've been involved in Poser & DazStudio now going on 10 years.  As I am openly gay, and also married to my partner of 16 years, we see the whole 3D thing thru different eyes.  He thinks its an utter waste of time, and I run 3 brokerages, am a Daz Published Artist, sell at Rendo and other places.  I run Poserpedia, PoserAddicts, DigitalMales, Maleposerotica and soon a new female themed store.

Its been a VERY VERY difficult road, especially supporting male figures since Victoria/Aiko/Girl have the main focus in Poser artwork.  But I stuck by it, and I tried MANY times to get my husband interested in it.  But no real luck.  He hates computers, is a master hairstylist with a ton of creativity and NO hobbies that I know of.  

What really was odd was, 5 years ago I forced him to get his German Masters in Hairstyling (required to own a salon here & train new stylists), and because I believed in him -- I financed it.  It cost round about 10K (Euros) which I financed via .... poser.

When he got his "Meisterfriseur" certification, he opened his own shop, and told me that his "shop" was a "real job" and what I did was merely "playing".

That somewhat pissed me off,  considering he never thought about where the 10K (Euro) came from.  So I let him continue thinking his physical salon was "real" and my poser stuff was "playing".

3 years later after financially bailing him out of some serious financial issues, I gave up, and told him to close his shop.  Due to the financial economy and his management of it, it was closed shortly before its 3rd anniversary.  Now I am a very "nice" person, and do not throw his "real job" in his face....

Now he is at home, and is not allowed to work due to his filing bankruptcy, and I am still "playing" with poser and my shops.

I recently completely restructured PoserAddicts into a new store, and will integrate DigitalMales into it so I can eliminate one store, to make way for my new Female-Themed one to compete with MPE.  Still he views it all as a "game".

What really annoys me the most is not that I won't see any of the investment in the salon that went belly up, but that he keeps on badgering me to buy a new kitchen... from my "play-money".

And I refuse.... cause as he calls it... "play money" won't buy any real stuff...

Oh, and asking him to look at any of my 3D artwork or projects? I cannot get him to even look at it without a dumb comment, so I gave up long ago.

So I live in my own "play world" paying the electric bills, filling our fridge and freezer, gasoline, auto-insurance, inspections, with my play money.

Greetz from Germany
Antonio
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Greetings from Germany
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