Luckily I have a rather adventurous wife and she supports my adventures as well, just have to keep her up to date as to what's going on.And my wife complains about my car buying adventures.
Years ago the set backs would have annoyed me, now I just see it as part of the adventure. Helps that I have the vacation and discretionary time available that the set backs doesn't affect my relationship with work and that I wasn't burning through money staying at hotels.You have a lot more patience then me...