For those of you who live with a significant other and have gotten swept up in the blogging craze, do your spouses get jealous and feel like they are competing with cyber friends? Just off the top of my head I can think of many of you that must spend more time online per day than I do, since you post more often, have much more thought out posts, and you have much longer blogrolls than mine. Are any of you experiencing this issue?
And. . . could it be possible that I am spending too much time reading about others' lives as a manner of escaping my own?
Is blogging harmful to your relationship?
Is blogging harmful to mine?
Please comment; I would love to have your input.
8 comments:
I work very hard to keep it from interfering with my work and family time. I compose blogs in my head while I'm driving, running or eating lunch and put them onto cyber paper later. It doesn't make my husband jealous, but he also doesn't understand my compulsion to put my personal information out there for the world to read.
"I can think of many of you that must spend more time online per day than I do, since you post more often"
Are you talking about me? huh? John doesn't complain about it which is surprising. But I do try to blog when he's not home. Last night I was trying to blog and the man didn't know what to do with himself! I'm sure he would get jealous if I did it with him around. I'm no help am I? Blogging, it's a singles sport.
I left you a comment earlier, but it never showed up. ::sigh::
Let's pretend that it was witty and profound and impressive, shall we?
What I said was that I do my blogging in the early morning when no one is up. Both because I cannot write while I'm being interrupted, and partly because I'm still trying to develop a writing habit, and doing it at the same time every day is supposed to contribute to that goal. Will it? I don't know.
I read quite a few blogs to my family, and we laugh/rant/shake heads at some of the blogs I read, but it's mostly my own 'thing'.
What in the world would you be trying to escape from? Seriously. I just spent time at your house and I did not see blogging interfering with anything. Be glad you are not an avid golfer or shopper or bass fisher or race car driver for heavens sake! Imagine how much time that would take away from a relationship. You must blog and prepare yourself for I Am Bossy's arrival next month. We will all be following that line of blog. Anyway, it seems the anti-blog festival is raging forth this week on some of us.
Andy doesn't seem to care. He does think it's weird that I read about perfect strabgers, but he gets a kick out of reading my blog. Seriously, it is something I do for myself and it doesn't cost any money so, what's to complain about???
What are perfect strabgers?
If it is possible, my husband spends more time online than I do so he can't complain. He doesn't read my blog which I consider super-weird. If there was a chance someone was writing about me on a blog, I would be stalking it. There are several annoying relatives who read my blog to get family updates and no longer feel the need to contact me on a regular basis. That part has been very good.
1. My husband is not jealous of blogging. He does read my blog and he enjoys it. He also checks up on the people who comment on here but he mostly just reads me.
2. Google reader has cut my blogread list time down to a manageable amount of time. I probably only spend about 2 hours online a day now and that is not all in one sitting.
3. Escapism? Or just curiosity and taking comfort in the fact that YES!! I am normal. Bloggers are real in a way that most people are not. I love the lack of pretense. It enhances my life in a good way.
4. Is blogging harmful to your relationship? No ultimately it helps me know myself better which makes me a better communicator-WIN/WIN.
5. Is blogging harmful to Jason's? I don't know how Giancarlo feels about your blog. 'Tis hard for non-bloggers to understand the sense of community with strangers. If you can make him understand the compulsion to write that some of us are created with, perhaps he can understand better. My darling hopes that I will write a book someday which is a lifelong dream of mine. We see blogging as training for that. Not everyone has a book dream but most bloggers I know nurture that dream a little through blogging.
There is also the benefit of ranting and venting via the blog that improves all relationships a bit-even if you do it wrong like I often do. ( ;
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