Has your horse life ever interfered with your love life?

Boys are smelly.


No, but really, I've been hurt one too many times by men, whereas Ned has only hurt me when it's been my own bloomin' fault! (Falling off and stuff)
 
What love life!

Saw a T shirt - the front said "my BF said it's him or the horse" on the back was a pictuire of a woman hugging her horse with the caption "we will miss him"

I did a verbal survey once of friends. The question was if you give up you man or your horses which would it be?" Without exception they all said they wouldn't want to be without either, but if they had to choose they would keep the horses. Woirrying that they were all married!
 
My ex was super supportive, brought me my old pony to break in, brought me a lorry and drove me to places. He started riding and I felt my 'me and ponio' time suffered as he was always there! He was a nasty piece of work though so when it came to getting down on one knee, I sacrificed some horsey bits to leave him. Still have my gorgeous smokey though :)

New partner is fab. Only been 3 months, but he comes down yard in the dark when im scared haha. He is happy for me to spend the time with 'the other man in my life' as he calls him haha. We both work shifts, so when I'm on late or nights, he has already volunteered to go down and feed smoke for me, though he won't be allowed to get as involved as the ex haha

Bexcy-bee xx
 
My love life interferes with my horses...
Having been told by my oh of 5 1/2 yrs in the summer if i got.another it was over... i bought another! we split up for 4 months.but are now back together, and he actually helps a little bit, buys them carrots and polos too :-)
 
PMSL at the Friday night replies to this thread ;)

My ex also uttered the phrase 'it's me or the horse' and TBH by that stage I was getting a bit fed up of him anyway so his lack of understanding of something I loved signalled the end for us.

My husband, although he protests that horses smell and he hates them, has been a real support through good times and bad. We'd only been together a few months when my old horse had an accident at a show, he lept a 3ft fence and ran across a 6 acre field to get to me and washed all the blood off when we got home :( That was the moment i knew he loved me! Now he's not at the yard as much but he comes to shows with me and is pretty handy with studding up and the camera but he understands that I need to have the horse in my life. After Leg was PTS I deliberated about getting another but it was hubby who said I'd last 5 minutes without and he topped up my budget (so he owns Buddy's leg) THEN he put in towards buying the lorry. He's pretty amazing.
 
"Saw a T shirt - the front said "my BF said it's him or the horse" on the back was a pictuire of a woman hugging her horse with the caption "we will miss him""

Pmsl
 
Oddly for me its not the horses causing wars. Its the social networking.
Dinner plates down and all eyes on the laptop. Him to tweet and my browsing a certain horse forum as there may be some discussion out there needing my input (tongue in cheek). Thank God I'm not on facebook too.
 
Interesting thread! When OH and I first got together he was really quite anti-horse, as he'd had a bad experience with a "mad horsewoman". I even came on here asking for advice about OHs who dislike horses. It got to the point where I had to say, look, I am not her, but I have always had horses and always will, nothing's going to change that...

A few months later, he bought me my beautiful colt for my birthday, and now happily joins in, he even does the evening feed if I'm running late. I'm not sure if it was the talking-to, or the fact that he feels "part" of things now he's bought me the colt, but who cares, it's great! In fact a couple of weeks ago he even said he'd maybe like his own horse one day. Result!
 
I met oh after our team thrashed his team in a busa competition at uni. He hasn't interfered with my love of horses but some of the problem horses he rides certainly have pushed my love for horses lol. One particular chestnut mare was... I am sure planning on how to kill me... I was pinned in the stable, galloped at, bitten, stood on, squealed at from the other end of the yard. It once reared straight back nearly onto him, chucked him into a wall cracking his helmet... It now lives in a field, termed too dangerous to ride.

I just don't let oh know he's a much better rider than me lol!
 
Snowysadude said:
I totally read that wrong too....

Where do you find all of these caring, accepting men then?? I want one!
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Mine was about 2 doors down :p

Husband is a gamer, so TBH has his own expensive time consuming hobby and does not object to me spending a stupid amount of time with horses as long as we still get some time together.

Before him,the horsey ones were awefull (they always thought they knew more/ could sort it out with a shake of a wand :rolleyes: ) and the non horsey ones did not have a particular hobby as my OH does so just did not get it.

You don't need the same interests and I personally feel it is very healthy to have a live away from each other, but it only works if you put the effort in and have good time management ;)
 
*smug post alert*

I met my husband in a riding lesson. Our first date involved him grooming for me at a combined training.

We've always been glad of the fact that riding is a shared hobby. In fact we bought our horse to share.

It is great to have someone who understands horses as it is such an all consuming hobby, not sure I could justify the time and money if he didn't get something out of it too.

He's great at mucking out, can clip, lunge, clean tack etc he's just bought a 4x4 to tow a trailer and probably worries about our mare more than I do! He will lie in bed wondering whether she is warm enough.

If you both smell of horse you don't notice, so he doesn't mind me wearing my horsey clothes. In fact he was first attracted to me in my riding gear!
 
When things got difficult with work and horse etc, my last partner would suggest I sell my boy, which just pointed out how little he understood me.

I came home after finding my horse lame this week (he fractured his pelvis last year so everything makes me nervous), other half put his arms around me an said "don't worry, if he's broken, we'll fix him". That "we" meant everything to me. I'm marrying him in 6 weeks time (but only cos they'll never make it legal for me to marry my horse!).
 
Nope, my OH has his own interests in mountain biking, squash, golf - we don't often have days out together tbh!

TBH I'm not keen on horsey men, ime most are either really wet and pathetic or dicks :D
 
Nope, my OH is amazing!
I look after 9 horses at the moment (only 3 are mine), thankfully all living out and on holiday for another 2 weeks. Nearly every morning OH will come up and help me feed or occasionally he'll tell me to stay in bed and he'll just go and feed them. When they all come back into work he's even talking about helping me exercise them :)
He loves going shooting (I love him shooting, fills my freezer with venison and bunnies :D ), so he has his own expensive passtime to keep him occupied.
He also has a good sense of humour which is essential!!! I work 7 days so that plus horses, I'm usualy quite tired. Most nights I ask him if he wants sexy time, he always replies yes and he gets back "thats fine, just please try not to wake me" :D
I love him to bits and wouldn't chamge him for the world :D
 
I have never met any horsey men my age (except for one who is a complete t**t). Most of the horsey men I know are gay anyway. I'm also pretty particular about how I like horse to be kept/ridden/treated, (as many owners seem to be) and I am not going to change those thing for anyone or anything. Regarding anything else in life, I am far more open-minded and relaxed! So bearing those things in mind and the fact that I am an 'acquired taste' (aka I'm a bit (or very) weird ;)) according to my best friend, eternal singledom, here I come...
 
My Hubby was not horsey when we first met, but now he likes horses as much as me! Horses are our shared hobby, although we have our seperate hobbies too. Hubby can/will do the horses on his own too, he's well trained :D

I just have to convince him that riding is not as scary as he thinks :rolleyes:
 
My husband is totally non horsy, and after 20 yrs of knowing me he can still barely get close enough to feed a carrot, bless him. He has tried but doesn't get horses at all!

In an argument, the time I spend with mine is invariably thrown at me. Every single time! Luckily we don't argue often mind you.

He is even tolerating my still riding gently at 36 weeks pregnant, though had a teeny meltdown when I fell off over an xc practice fence at 11 weeks when out at BE (and was not amused when I got up, back on and did the course)
 
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