LethalGeek posted:

My [32F] husband [34M] is obsessed with Rube Goldberg machines

My husband and I have been married for 4 years, together for 6. He's an incredible husband, very attentive and a great father to our daughter (11 months).

He works freelance, and often has downtime between jobs. When he has this downtime, he likes to spend time on his hobby; building Rube Goldberg machines (those chain reaction contraptions, where one thing triggers another thing which triggers another thing etc...).

It started off with him just using the garage, and they were quite fun, I loved coming home and him showing me his latest project. But now they've got so ambitious that they take over all the house.

Some of the projects can take a whole week to build, and so when I come home I'm not allowed in the living room because I might set off part of the project. Sometimes I'll come home, open the door and half of the project will go off and he'll get annoyed at me.

I'm starting to get worried about inviting friends over in case he is mid project and our friends think we're insane.

The final straw for me was when he got something to turn on the TV and play a song that our daughter likes, so she crawls over and sets off the next part of the machine.

When I bring this up to him, he dismisses my concerns and says it's all a bit of fun, I've asked him to stop but he outright refuses. Any ideas of what to do?

tl;dr My husband is obsessed with rube goldberg machines