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Originally Posted by Intergage
I'm quite the same but completely different!
I was hanging around the wrong people, digging myself into a dead end hole like my mates are and I found I love the knowledge I gain from astronomy and just from removing myself from one scene and basically being accepted into a world wide community has made me change my life and instead of being 20k in debt at the age of 20 and going no where, 5 months of Astronomy and good people I'm 9k in debt and starting Applied science on my way to my Astronomy Masters in 3 days! 
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Way to go Matt!
I've been into astronomy since I was little, I guess my earliest memory being around 8yrs going on binocular viewing sessions with my father. My father loved astronomy and I was the only one in the family that shared his passion... oh the memories of those early morning wake-ups to see Lunar eclipses etc. When my father passed away, he had willed his binos and telescope to me. I still have the telescope, and I still have & use those binoculars today; I think they'd be about 50 years old now and still going strong.
So how has it changed my life?
Fast forward to the second man in my life- enter the husband ...
It's changed him more than it has me.
He loves the peace & quiet when I'm out observing and soothed with the knowledge there's going to be a few thousand words less that night that he has to hear.

Yes, he's never been so relaxed in all his life since he started buying me telescopes.
Sometimes the door is locked and I can't get back in.

Thumping and yelling on the door in the wee hours of the morning reminds him of the reality which he has blissfully escaped from.

Did I forget to mention that he likes to buy me astro accessories too- yes, it does mean I'll get to spend more time with my scope... now isn't that so thoughtful of him.

Last month he bought me an Argo Narvis, boy I must really have been annoying

- anyway, find what works and stick with it I say.
But jokes aside and on the plus side, he happily accompanies me to every astronomy event and drives me everywhere. So I'm very blessed to have the two most important people in my life right by my side with astronomy.
I think I slightly deviated from the topic of this thread.

I'm a girl, I do that.
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stardust steve
Now i see my interest in astronomy a bit like the Eagle's song "Hotel California"...."you can check in anytime you like...but you can never leave"
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How true! I think once in you're there forever and despite long absences from it, I think you always come back to it.
Nettie (jjj) once told me (I'm sure she won't mind me quoting her here), "
astronomy isn't just a hobby- it's a lifestyle." That stuck in my head to this day. So much we do revolves around it!
P.S. Peter (Stardrifter WA) I've heard part of that story before (re your ex wife)- it's prize gold! I laughed just as hard hearing it for the second time.