US Airways Dividend Miles (Pre-FlightFund Merger) - What does your spouse/significant other think of FF?

My wife caught me posting that last topic, and thinks I am very strange for getting so into the USairways frequent flyer board. What do all of your sig others feel about you being obsessed with your accounts/mileage and so on?

[This message has been edited by nawlinsdoc (edited 08-10-2002).]

1600+ posts later, myt wife accepts it. I guess she figures it keeps me out of trouble http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif.
She know I'm weird and just assumes that the rest of the FTers are the same http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

I discovered FT first, but my partner (who's NW Gold) reads more often and more broadly than I do. He posts occasionally as NorthmareFT.

The family that accrues frequent flyer miles together stays together.

David

Obligatory On-Topic Addition: Thanks to this board, I earned enough Dividend Miles to take us both to South Africa in Swiss F this fall.

My wife thinks I'm a sick puppy, but she digs going to OGG on my miles....

My partner thinks it is weird, but she is part of her own online discussion group -- chowhound.com.

To each their own! And at least she doesn't complain about earning lots of miles.. just when I do bad things like upgrading without her.

A FT/FF addiction is much easier to handle than many other things :-).

My ladyfriend knew I was crazy the moment she met me, so I'm pretty sure she just considers FT par for the course.

Like others have mentioned, my wife loved my hobby since it's something she can benefit from. She's never complained sipping champagne while flying F class someplace overseas....

However, she never fully appreciated the "brain power" that went into my hobby until she started asking questions about airline alliances. She couldn't understand why I put effort into a smaller airline like Alaska until I explained how the miles in that account could be used on AA, BA, NW, etc. She started asking more and I started to explain other airline alliances, OneWorld, Star Alliance, etc. After 10 minutes, her eyes started glazing over and she called me a freak for knowing all the connections in the "airline family trees".

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Explain it to your wife this way...If you get a girlfriend, then you do not strain the family budget when you are a FF. You can use the hotel points and flight miles without tapping into the kids' college funds.

Or, you can take your wife on really nice trips with your points and miles.

Worse, what to do when your SO has a higher teir status than you do?

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She is already aware that I'm strange, but that the travel does help on the 'vacation' front. Wish I was home but the miles really help. I'm not an avid poster but - thanks for askin'

I'm doin' fine - my brother in law just picked me up - you really have a big airport here, but, the people are really friendly. Oh yea my brother in law just picked me up from the airport... I'm doing fine - you really have a big airport.. the people are really friendly.....