Dear mrs dr210910,
Your husband called while you were away, and he'd like his balls back !
or said another way, In my best Hank Hill voice, "Damnit Bobby you'll go blind if you keep that up"
Sometimes people just have to put their foot down, or get a little ...... off and get a little loud in order to establish a bit of mutual respect in the relationship. Or said another way, a marriage does not survive very well or long if both parties cant feel free to argue some along the way. I've been married quite happily for over 33 years and our marriage would have never survived if either of us had gotten away with trying to "change" or otherwise "control" the other one. Yeah, we've had many knock down drag out battles along the way, but we always come to a compromise or understanding on whatever the issue was. In other words... No single side of a marriage can make the rules, unless you like being "castrated" by an overbearing super ..... like my brothers wife bwahahah haaaaaaaaa. There always has to be some give and take or you'll end up like my milktoast brother who has no life of his own outside of constantly running thru the honeydo list so he doesnt get "in trouble" arrrgh poor guy.
My wife has been a nurse all her life, like from way back when IV's were glass bottles, and she's always been anti cigarettes. She did afterall, marry me when I was a smoker so she knew what she was getting into. We've raised four children, one of which happened unplanned a full ten years after the third one, who is still a minor living at home. I've never smoked with a baby or toddler nearby, but I was never so .... as to feel I needed to smoke outside because of slight second hand smoke in the air, although I didnt smoke as much at home as I would in my shop or out and about.
She'd ..... about the smell and even tried to tell me to smoke outside a few times heh heh. I'd laugh that off and tell her "No ef'ing way"! Yeah I'd smoke less while she was in the room, blow my smoke in another direction, crack a car window so the smoke got sucked out of the car etc. In later years she'd complain more and more about the smell of cigarettes and I'd give in some and light up and leave the room or put it out for an hour or so. But for years and years this went on, and I did concede that cigs do have an odor, and I'd do what I could to reduce my stink output in the house. I never really knew how bad they really smelled until I switched to vaping though. Now that I'm an ex smoker, I am amazed how bad they smell and understand why she complained so much and so often about it.
Now since I switched to vaping, she couldnt be happier about it and she has only complained once about an e juice odor and that was a pungent coconut smelling juice which I discontinued immediatly. Most juices really have very little or no odor that she or I can detect, other than a few like cinnamons or coconut mixes. Some on the other hand are pleasant scents that arent overpowering stinkage like some air freshener devices can be. But there are ZERO, juices that can leave an odor hanging around like an air freshener does, so there is really zero rational reason for your wife to force you outside to vape. My point being, if my wife finds any one ejuice I'm using to be an unpleasant odor, I'll just not use that juice anymore around her... but there is no ef'ing way I would ever consider being exiled out of the house to vape.
You really need to educate her about vaping, avoid juices that have any unpleasant odors (most dont), and for the sake of mankind "stand your ground"!
Don't cave on this issue. Make vaping accepted "everywhere in YOUR house", not just the man cave!
If your wife gets away with forcing you to only vape in the cave, then you'll soon find yourself shivvering outside.
