Spiders. My Wife (to be) Hates Them.

[Zeus]

I was excited to read this thread at first. So much for that. Anyway, my wife hates, hates, hates spiders of any kind. I hate hate hate snakes. So it works like this, we're moving to South America in a few years where you basically have the most dangereous snakes and spiders in the world. We therefore made an agreement. She kills the snakes and I got the spiders.

[Mr Cactuar]

I was excited to read this thread at first. So much for that. Anyway, my wife hates, hates, hates spiders of any kind. I hate hate hate snakes. So it works like this, we're moving to South America in a few years where you basically have the most dangereous snakes and spiders in the world. We therefore made an agreement. She kills the snakes and I got the spiders.

Australia has the deadliest snakes in the world, though South America does have the deadliest spider (Brazilian Wandering Spider)

Go me for being a nut about that stuff

EDIT: You think that's bad, eest? You don't watch enough daytime TV. There was a chick running and screaming away from tin foil.

YouTube - Maury Show - Women SCARED to death of Balloons

[Zeus]

I said they basically have the most dangereous snakes and spiders.

[Mr Cactuar]

I said they basically have the most dangereous snakes and spiders.

I'm sorry for being a nut about it.

[Shoeberto]

Personally, I'm nyctophobic. Darkness and nighttime can, under the right circumstancs, terrify me. I'm just lucky it's a mild phobia. I very rarely get panicked, though sometimes I'll avoid going outside or into an unfamiliar building at night in order to avoid the fear. One time I had to get a friend to walk me to my car at a campsite, even though it was only a couple of hundred feet through some trees, and I'd been there and back numerous times during the day.

I'm the same. I have a very overactive imagination when it gets dark, and unless I have something takes my mind off of it, I can get really freaked out.

I don't know that there's really a way to cure a phobia without major work with a psychiatrist. Short of some kind of placebo effect (placing anti-spider wave emitting devices at the windows... which may or may not just be black boxes with an LED in them) you might be stuck just having to live with it.

[daggertrepe]

Hey, I have a phobia of flies. It is so bad, that whenever one is in the room, I run away hysterically like you fiancee.

At least spiders don't fly and aren't super dirty like flies.

[Quindiana Jones]

Wear a spider costume when making love.

[Jess]

I'm petrified of spiders. I can't be in the same room as one.

Buy a snake! It'll eat your spiders.

[Rainecloud]

Wear a spider costume when making love.

That one made me giggle like a little girl. Thanks.

[Zeldy]

Point out that spiders are more petrified of her than she is of them. I can't really say anything, though, I cry like a little girl and scream the house down when a Crane fly is anywhere near me.