My wife is supportive as well. I could be into buying and rebuilding exotic sports cars or shooting heroin into my eyeballs, so plastic scale models are pretty much fine.
Where I live, if there is another scale modeler, he or she is staying anonymous and my friends and acquaintances think my fascination with plastic airplane kits is kind of cute and a little odd. They have no idea what this is all about. If I try to enlighten them I quickly produce the MEGO effect (my eyes glaze over) in them.
To bad for them...