How to help creeped out husbands?

[Jobee]

Well, husbands, boyfriends, family. There's usually someone nearby who is creeped out by our lovely dolls. For me it's my hubby. I love my dolls, and he tolerates them because he loves me. lol

But I admit, I make certain decisions and concessions so that he isn't too bothered by them. For a long time, I wouldn't buy dolls with replaceable eyes. When I finally got Feebee, my Hujoo Berry, I got very flat anime-ish eyes so they wouldn't look too realistic. I also never display my dolls at eye-level, and have the dolls eyes pointed down and to the side, so my hubby can never make eye contact and freak out.

What do you guys do to make the lives of your creeped out loved ones a bit easier?

[Gift_in_Edge]

My family's not creeped out by my dolls at all. But I keep mine in my room where you have to get pass the "guard dog", my chihuahua, to see them.

I'd say try making them a dollsized room where you can close to hid them when needed. You could make the door look like the outside of a house even.
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[OkamiKodomo]

Well, I have a closed cabinet in my art studio for them, but when I still kept them on my desk, it was less what I did to make it bearable for others, and more what others did to make it bearable for themselves. My old roommate slept on the couch, across from my desk, and he would take one of my bandanas and cover their heads with it. If I happen to have one in my lap, he'd ask me to turn their heads away, so they weren't "looking" at him.

[Alopecia No Hime]

You could assault him with pictures of Puki's and see if he's still creeped out by them then.

Seriously...Who could be creeped out by this face:

(NOTE: NOT MINE FOUND IT ON PHOTOBUCKET)

[magkelly]

Actually I find that the ones that creep people out tend to be the glass eyed kid dolls. I keep those in one area in a cabinet in my room out of the way of most people in my house. Easy to avoid if they want. The MT's I thought would creep people out but something about them actually makes them quite likable even to people who generally don't like dolls. My roommates both fell in love with them. The Liv dolls I'm always getting complaints about though. They don't like those and hate to see them in the common areas. Designate one room, one space. Put the so called "creepy" dolls in there. That way they can be avoided.

[Siead]

i keep all my dolls in one room, which is sadly also the guest room/ office.
but they tend to blend in with all the other action figures and whatnot in there lol.
if someone asked or if we had a long term guest i would move them into the closet but it would make me a bit sad. i like having my toys scattered nearby when i'm up late or working.

[DollyKim]

They could all be real children or reborn babies... Any doll that's filled with love doesn't have the room for hate or the desire to kill you in your sleep. My dolls live in my room because the pets aren't allowed in, I don't want the cats 'loving' the dolls or the dogs chewing on them. If I had display cases with locking doors the Trekkers and a few others could find their way out in to the communal space. If he's in to building things maybe he could help you build environments for them? I'd love someone to build a Star Trek, Doctor Who, and Spider-Man "houses" and mini shops for my Re Ment.

If he's influenced by movies don't let him see the following shows- Nightmares and Dreamscapes "Battleground" also in the Nightshift book, newer Twilight Zone "The Collection", and the Stuart Gordon movie "Dolls".

[Jobee]

A more designated space seems like a good idea. And I just so happen to have an Ikea gift card. :p

[Trethowan]

The dolls don't creep out my husband, it's the doll people that creep him out actually. So I make sure to handle them like the hunks of plastic they are. I never cradle or talk to them, I never carry them around unless I drag them out for a photostory, (he's never home for those). I don't call them by name either. I reference "the doll, or the Micah doll," because they're only doll versions of my characters anyway but still. He knows all their names and sometimes I'll slip up and say something like, "I bought Ivan a new shirt today," but for the most part I avoid that. As long as he knows I just collect dolls it's fine. If he thought I was getting emotionally attached or calling them "my kids" or anything like that he'd start to get worried. He doesn't mind being married to a collector, but he'd be wary if I started acting like I was emotionally unhinged. (Or at least his interpretation of unhinged.)

[Jobee]

That's a good point! I call them by their names, maybe I should change how I refer to them.