My partner's very supportive. Guess I can relate to the nodding part, I get the "uhaaa, that's great baby" every time I announce that I have a new product idea.

hell no she has no clue......she thinks its a big waste of time and money.....

My girlfriend don't get it *yet* totally but she has an idea. And I know she kinda hates it that i'm always infront of the PC.

hey,

well my girlfriend has put up with all the internet marketing talk for almost 2 years now.

Now she even wants to learn about IM, but i dont have the time to teach her.

When i think about it, i talk about IM to her almost ALL of the time, its nuts.

Jani G

I don't blame her. My girlfriend is the same way, that's why I don't bother her with explaining any of it. Same with my parents actually.

My girlfriend has somewhat of a clue, but she just let's me do my own thing...

She was also brought up to work for a paycheck, I guess in a sense I was too, but I knew there is an easier way to make money, and a way to work for myself, I hated working for someone else and making them money, being demanded around like I'm worthless!

My parents don't understand at all, but they still support me in whatever it is I do in my day

Right now, my wife is still trying to understand what I'm actually doing. But she knows it's work and very supportive about it. Besides, I stay at home (keep on writing, doing the web pages, and blogs, etc.) and sees that I'm having fun at what I do.

Bottom line with any work is that you enjoy what you do. For a marriage, or any partnership, your partner will support you only if (1) you're enjoying your work; and (2) you pay the bills on time every time (with money for shoes).

Give it time, as long as you enjoy what you're doing she'll get it.

Looking for a wife!

Not really actually!

I have a cute girlfriend!

Who keeps loving me for whatever I do!

OOH... Out to hold her hand!

(Where's the marketing value I added?)

My wife didn't really understand it too much, until I started doing freelance programming. She understood that, because my regular job is programming too. It took a little while to get the Google Adsense stuff and affiliate marketing, but now she's more supportive and realizing that I'm not out there scamming people out of their money.

My girlfriend is starting to get what I do online. She sees my sites, looks at the systems I've developed and it makes more sense. A year ago, I don't think she would have gotten it. Oh well, no worries.

Cheers,

Brad Spencer

Does anyone get what I do should be the question. I've tried to explain and I find those same people say I hide what I do. Funny topic.

Old thread is old

But yeah, we work together on our online business She's a Warrior too(AnnaHamer). We have different strengths and weaknesses - I'm responsible for the majority of the content and SEO work, and she's responsible for the design and technical stuff. We make a good team

For me,my wife has the login for my paypal and CB account, As long as she sees some sale she is happy and excited.

Yes, she is very supportive and understanding of my decision of being IMer

Yeah my wife "gets it" and is actually helping to create a product for us to sell!

Wife gets it 100%. She realizes the income is exponential unlike a 9 to 5 trade hours for fixed dollars amount. And she sees the results since we have had enough extra each month to attain another part of our dreams.

On the other hand, kids do not get it at all. They can't figure out how I can make a living without "disappearing" for 8 to 12 hours a day. But they see the results just like wife so one day maybe they'll get it.

Ok I don't have a wife..lol
But my family and friends have no idea what I do. They see my face light up when I talk about it (they listen - and have no clue what I am saying). But to me, it's fun! It's exciting - and that's contagious. They just know that I love it and that seems to be good enough!

My wife doesn't understand anything from what I do

My gf knows that I spend lots of time online, and that I'm good with computers, but that's all about it.

It looks like most of IMers do get some sort of support and understanding from the family.

Personally, I think it is very important for the long term as this business has very unique up and down.

It take a while before I see money and do not want them to disturb you during the process.

lol you've really got the replies coming in on this one

I don't have a wife, but nobody I know understands what I do online. I left a job in a highly respected public sector job, so I could enjoy the freedom of self-employment in the private sector, with that added extra bit of freedom that comes from everything operating on the internet.

I hate having to try to explain to people what I do.

My girlfriend has problems understanding it. She kind of gets tired of hearing me talk but not understanding anything I say lol. She is wanting to learn more about it though and possibly starting her own niche site.

LOL I had a funny incident that sums this one up nicely!

Last month I went to toilet and when I came out I was $900 richer. I showed my wife, hoping for support that my plans were working.

She said "You made $900 having a f**** cr*p!" then she got DragonsBane (my broadsword) down off the wall and demanded I do it again.

I had to hide in the toilet for half-an-hour and by the time I was brave enough to come out, I discovered she had spent it all

Cheers,
Colin Palfrey

Most of the girls I've been with, or friends, simply think I'm kidding when I say to them I'm making money online. They think I'm kidding around for not having a "job", or that I'm into pornography or childish paid to click web sites...
I don't consider myself an internet marketer though. I do internet marketing, but that's not what I ultimately want to do with my life. It is something that brings me a very good amount of money and I can work wherever and whenever I want, those are huge benefits for now

I didn't feel like explaining it to her, so I just told her "Don't ever ask me 'bout my business!". She's cool with that ;-)

IF I had a HUSBAND and IF he worked online...

I would UNDERSTAND what he did because....

Its EXACTLY what I do too!

My wife does not understand whatsoever. She tells me to get a job and that she doesn't care about the money because she says what if one day everything stops working? I mean I've tried to explain it to her but it's like talking to the computer screen. She is very close minded and believes the only way to get ahead is to work at a job. I wish I knew all that before we got married...

I tried to explain to my girlfriend what I do online but I dont think she understood all what she likes to call "techy talk" so all she really knows is that online = makes me money haha.

At first my wife didn't, but then she saw that it was working. It wasn't so much the checks that turned her around, but the regular checks. She didn't care so much about how much did you earn last month, she was more concerned with can you keep this income coming in month after month.

That must be that "security" thing they're always talking about.

Once she saw that she not only became more supportive, but started contributing ideas and now dabbles in it herself.

My husband has been supportive from the start. I don't explain all the details, I just leave a little report on the kitchen counter each evening that looks something like this:

$327 yesterday. Have a nice day, dear!

He has a general understanding of what I do. I showed him each income stream and ran a report on each, but all he cares about is that daily total. He sees the number changing frequently and does not get upset when it goes down sometimes. He knows it will go back up again.

That little report brightens up his morning as he heads off to his day job at 4am I am so lucky to be the one at home!

I recruited my wife to work in the SEO biz over 5 years ago and now she is the one that brings in the biz. 2 years ago her BFF moved in with us and now she's a pro...

Like Cartmans TrapperKeeper 2000 I'm harvesting body parts and building new appendages....

Maybe one day.....when I get a wife.

My goodness, you have an awesome woman there, that's a keeper!

My girlfriend is always asking me to teach her what I do, not so she can move into IM herself but just so she can understand WTF I do for a living.

All she sees is that I sit at my computer for hours a day, listening to musing in the background, and somehow out of the blue the rent, holidays and dinners out are automatically paid for.

But here's my thing: I'm never too explicit with what I do! not even with my family. I simply say stuff like "I drive traffic to offers they might be interested in". In a way, I kind of like and embrace the "misty mystery" surrounding a professional IM'er

yes i think she "kind of" gets it, sometimes i show her my sites...or she sees i am writing articles. She knows that our income is basically from my web sites selling products.

But my dad and my sis is a different story, but at least they understand i am working online and doing marketing.

My wife didn't get it at all in the beginning.

However, now that she's writing her own articles and contributing to the editing and article submission side of our business, she's totally got it now.

It's great to have that sort of support, and once I set her up with her own blog and she experienced sales and traffic, she was hooked.

We're a good team and having that "home support" is critical.

I have no wife or girlfriend. But my mom always ask me how I do it. I try to explain her a lot every time.
But I guess she understand nothing except then my reach smile :-)

I have always been very supportive of my bf, and his work online. And even though he can get quite busy, he always makes the time for us. I'm very fortunate to be with someone who is so ambitious... In fact, he is also the biggest source of encouragement for pursuing my own IM success!

As for today she just nod here head and smile but I bet she will get interested soon...

My husband has no idea what I do. He does, however, ask all the time and I explain it to him in terms he can understand (but he barely uses the computer/internet) so even that is sometimes difficult.

My gf works for a highly successful compliance company that handles everyone from telemarketers to banks and insurance companies and hospitals.

They make sure that all these companies dont send out an email or make a phone call that is not fully compliant with the rules and regulations.

She sees me as a spammer and a schemer even though my lists are double opt in and people know they're signing up for the newsletters and not just downloading an e book.

She hates everything about what I'm doing but claims that she doesnt mind it.

It was my first $100 day on autopilot the other day and i showed her the stats and she ordered some boots, but told me to "tell her all about it at 12:01 on saturday" because I had won a bet and she had to listen to me and my projects for a day and try to understand.

The situation really makes me want to drink.

I would have to be honest and say NO! She doesnt understand what Im doing/trying to do...although sometimes neither do I lol

My husband has always been supportive of whatever I do, but he doesn't want to know the details. He didn't when I had an offline business, he doesn't now I have an online business.

What he cares about:

1. Are you making money?
2. Are the taxes done?
3. Is lunch ready?

(Not necessarily in that order)

I think, my whole family and everyone around me thinks I just goof off everyday, sit in front of the computer and money just comes in. They don't seem to understand what I say when I tell them what I do.

Some people even thought I am engaging in some illegal porno business online. haha

Very few people understand what I do. People understand the web and they understand you can make money but they only understand that on the big scheme of things. They think big web business like Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, HuffPost, etc. What they don't seem to realize is that just like in real life where there are small businesses and stores all over the place that make great livings and many are even wealthy, the internet is the same. Within every niche there's 1000's of more niches and each niche has an opportunity to profit. However, the more specific of a niche you get the more specialized you become and the harder it is for people to understand your trade. Plus people have a hard time conceptualizing a business that makes money when they can't see a physical store or presence of that business.

at least she encourages you

hahaha my wife, thinks this is a good way to keep my quiet when she wants and then a hinderance when she wants something done!

I have to say that at times it is very difficult to explain to people what we are doing.

Lot of people think that I am a spammer, or even worst that I sell porno

I just do not bother but just move forwards to my dream which matter most

Most friends and family don't ask me too much about working online, the wife is happy as long as money is coming in and she doesn't have any real interest in Internet Marketing.

But it can be different when you are just starting out and spending hours after your day job learning how to build websites etc..... that's when you do need support and understanding and most importantly....a belief that you will succeed.