My Husband on My Blogging
This question was posted in Greenbucks.
If you are married would you know if your husband is reading your blog? If you are in a relationship, would you know if your partner is reading your blog?
Oh yes, he does. Not often though, as he spends most of his time checking his emails and his favorite forums. But every once in a while, he spends time reading page after page of this blog.
Lately, he has become more involved. Months ago I was pondering on discontinuing my subscription to Wordpress and going back to Blogspot, but – get this – he insisted that I renew and shushed all my misgivings.
Sometimes I am having second thoughts attending EBs because of my responsibilities at home and hubby’s crazy work schedule. But as soon as he gets time off of work he checks the car, tells the kids he’s in charge, and shoos me out the door. If the EB is at night or somewhere I’ve never been to, then he attempts to re-schedule some appointments so he can chauffeur me to the venue.
Hubby sees something interesting, in the grocery, on the road, wherever, and he will take out his camera phone so I can use the photo in my blog.
If I can’t get the perfect picture, he will snatch the camera from my hands and shoot it for me.
The kids do something hilarious, he will look at me with a gleam in his eye, “May iba-blog na naman si mommy.” Sometimes, it’s not a suggestion at all. ”I-blog mo yan, mommy,” he’ll say.
The kids are noisy and demanding and I can’t blog, so he calls them and puts the tv on Disney Channel.
He has also been itching to tell the world of this blog through his sites’ shoutouts and email signature. I, on the other hand, prefer to keep things as low-key as possible, so I reprimand him when he so much as drop a hint about my blog when he talks with his friends and family.
“E, I’m proud of you, e!” he will reason. Sweet, but not good enough for someone who wants to avoid the family limelight on this blog, at least as of now.
I guess I feel uneasy at the thought of having my blog posts as the topic in family reunions. I’d still rather be known among my loved ones simply as Cess, their daughter, sister, niece, cousin, than as Lady Cess the blogger. I’d rather they stumble on my little corner of the web on their own, than by having my husband promote it.
He encourages me to go ahead, use the family’s real names. I, on the other hand, am still not so sure about that. I’ll take this chance to apologize to those who have said hello to my children using their real names. I have edited your messages and placed initials in lieu of their names.
I’m blessed with a husband who is very supportive of the things I love to do. Unfortunately for him I am still hesitant to go full blast in blogging. But I’m getting there. With someone like him around, I guess it’s just a matter of time.
Recently, he has also become my editor. If I have drafted a post I don’t feel so good about, the message may not be quite right, or it seems that it doesn’t make sense, he reads it and gives me an objective opinion.
So you shouldn’t be surprised if one day, I will announce that this blog has a sub-domain under my husband’s name. Or I have decided to come out and post the names of everyone in the family, and cousins up to the 4th degree are a-visitin’ here.
I understand how you feel. Privacy is really a big issue when you blog. I myself never expected anyone to read my blog and I also try to keep my online and offline world separate. It’s my Dad who’s excited to tell people about my blog, he even posted the write-up in MB in their office bulletin board (egads!). But with close family and friends I’m lucky that most have not seen my blog and for those who read regularly don’t really see any difference. Mas marami pa rin silang alam na kwento haha. =)
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Cess, alam mo, you have a very supportive and sweet Hubby.
imagine, initiating taking pictures just as so you have something for the Blog. and oh the re scheduling of his appointments just as so you can attend the EBs, that makes him score a gazillion of pogi points. 
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good for you! ganyan din hubby ko, sometimes he’ll tell me “o hindi mo pa binablog ito” when something happens (^_^) but for me, i keep my blog to update my family since kalat na kami. this way even if we don’t get to email each other often, they can just pop in and be updated (^_^)
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Aww, ang sarap siguro ng feeling na very supportive si hubby sa blogging mo and with all the *activities* (read – EBs) that come with it…
This reminds me I have not answered Julie’s question. hehe
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Hi Cess, naiiyak naman ako sa post mo bec. in my case, exact opposite naman. He doesn’t approve of my blogging and sometimes it’s the cause of our petty fights. Sad talaga ako…:-(
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Ay ang sweet nman ni Papa R. si papa P ko alang keber ei! hahahah!
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Ow, that is so sweet, Cess. Imagine he taking photos for you, giving you time to blog and even editing your wok and telling you to give the real names. Control yourself and not give names till the 4th degree ha, lol!
Get him his own domain na, and hubby will host it
Thanks for doing this and till next week
Take care.
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Hi, Mmy Cess, I’m glad to say na supportive na rin ngayon ang hubby ko sa blogging activity ko unlike before.
I know some couple-bloggers who enjoys the same hobby and they are partners when it comes to their online money making activities.
Why not give your hubby his own domain, tulad ni Rho at Mike.
Anyway, may tag ako sa iyo. Salamat and God Bless, always.
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my hubby is game din. pero minsan naiinis sya kapag my photo taking gets in the way, hahaha. as for reading my blog? hmm, i dont think so. once in a blue moon lang.
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that is so sweet!! alam mo, iba pa rin ang feeling kapag supportive ang asawa. it makes all undertakings so rewarding..kahit sa pakiramdam lang. sniff…sana ganyan din asawa ko..kasi…kasi…wag na..hahaha
looking forward to the big launch
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We’re both lucky in this sense, Ms. Cess. Like you too, I cringe when the hubby announces to anyone who cares to listen that the wife has a blog.
However, in my case, I have to tiptoe around the hubby’s profession bec. anything I write about it might affect him negatively, as it did in a blogger-friend-military-wife’s case.
So sweet, your hubby.
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I admire your husband’s all out support on your blogging. I find it so sweet that he takes photos of interesting things thinking it might become useful on your blog.
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sweet naman ni hubby mo. we’re lucky dahil supportive ang mga husband natin! cheersss…
missshuuu te cess!
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You can say that again … you’re blessed with a husband like that. Such husband come only custom made, made to specs.
Congrats! May your hubby’s tribe increase.
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Funny. That’s nice that he’s so into what you are doing. Better than if he didn’t care at all.
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