Don't get me wrong, I love my wife. I have got her looking to make sure she gets the WS when she buys DVDs. She no longer listens to Michael Jackson. Heck, she has her law degree while I still struggle to complete my undergrad BUT.......... no matter how bad the buzz on a film if it has Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan, Hugh grant and a few others she has to see it or make a blind buy.

I only count the ones I buy or are given to me. If anybody else wants something for themself, they keep it on thier own shelf.

99.9% of the time the DVDs stay with me after break ups.

Like a man's french fries... You don't f**k with a man's DVD collection.

My wife and I have seperate collections, but not because of the content. I am a guy who really enjoys movies that many of you would consider chick-flicks and children's movies. My collection is EXTREMELY eclectic. However, my wife and I just get along better when we know what belongs to who.

My wife and I keep all of our DVD's together as one collection.

I'm also very lucky to have a wife who loves horror and action films and I enjoy her Disney toons so it really isn't that much of a stretch to keep them together.

Absolutely I count my girlfriend's DVDs. Our collection is OUR collection. We've always referred to our collection that way since we both started collecting after we started dating (4 years ago). Some are titles only I cared about, some were only things she wanted to see. The majority were films we were both interested in. So it's all in one....kit and kaboodle. Now if we ever split up.....ugghh, I don't even want to think about it.

Yes, as well as my daughter's.

Where's Tom Lykias when you need him?

If i was living with my girlfriend of almost 3 years then i would. But until then, it's seperate. I count my brother's and my mom's though.

My girlfriend and I have been together for 4 years..so basically, what hers is mine and what's mine is hers. We buy the DVDS together. Who gives a rats ass if their dvds are mixed in with yours? You afraid 9 to 5, or Stepmom or Steel Magnolias (kind of silly to think all women like these types of movies only) is going to infect your Criterions? Silly. Hell... my girlfriend and I differ on many films, but the fact of the matter is, it is our collection.

I'm the only one who buys DVD's in my house. If my wife or kids get them for presents, they go on the shelf and are counted just like the others. Eventually the kids may move out and take some or if I were to seperate from my wife she'd want hers but I'll jump off that bridge when I get to it.

Funny, but the traditional "techo-geek"/"neophyte" gender roles are reversed in our house. I have always adopted the latest elctronic gadgets long before my fiancee has, and I have spent the last year or so putting his VHS collection on ebay and replacing them with DVDs. He doesn't mind at all, and I think the absorption of his movie collection has made mine more diverse.

OUR DVD collection is listed below.

Could be... That being said, my collection is mine. His would be his (if he actually bought a dvd).

My wife doesn't buy and dvd's--she leaves that to me(although there's times I'm sure she wished she didn't). She will ask me to pick up something from time to time, but other than that it's all my collection.

I count my wife's DVDs when talking about the number of DVDs.

Here's a question: If your wife has a particular DVD, and your girlfriend wants to buy it, do you say that you can loan her that particular DVD and she should buy another, or do you let her buy the same DVD?

98% of what we own was picked by me, but it's our collection. If I didn't do it that way, there's no way I could buy as many as I do without more discussion. She has her "hobbies" as well, but includes me if I show any interest.

My wife is somewhat like Randy C's. If it wasn't for me, she wouldn't own any movies. She would own travel books and work-related books, but that's it (even when she buys a book, she either throws it away when I'm not looking, gives it away, or takes it to Half-Priced Books). She'd maybe own 10-20 CDs (she's started buying a few more, but that may be a silent protest against all my DVD buying). She uses the computer, but claims she wouldn't have one if not for me.

She only wants to see movies once, or at most twice, so she's perfectly happy to rent them. She'll rent widescreen if available, but thinks I'm just being stupid when I prefer not to watch something that she rented that she could only get in full-screen.

To answer the question, she doesn't own any DVDs (or videos)--I don't even give them to her as gifts, since it doesn't really interest her (it would be more of a gift to me). So all the DVDs count as mine. If I die, I'm sure she'll just give them away.

Wife's??? They're all MINE. Muahahaha....

I count all of our DVDs but my wife doesn't. I've noticed that when she is talking to someone else about a movie she likes, she uses, "We have...", but when she doesn't like the movie, it is, "He has..."

I count my girlfriends as part of my girlfriend collection. I count my DVD's as part of my DVD collection. I don't see why one would want to mix the two up.

Maybe this should have been a poll so we could see the tally. I agree on the psychology of it: if you can't share your films, bills, finance, children, good/bad times, retirement, vacations might be a bit tougher. My advice would be to let go, and let him/her into your intimate movie space

Our collection is our collection. The vast majority of it is "mine", and I do all the purchasing. If there is something she is interested in, she leaves it to me to find the best deal, which I am happy to do. My wife gets a kick out of laying claim to my Criterions and such, so it can be fun to share I do agree though, it can be a little embarissing when someone looks at your collection and goes "You own Annie???" But of course there is a simple explanation.

As far as "converting" goes, it has been a slow process. At first it was demonstrating how superior DVD is to VHS. Once she was convinced of that, she learned how much better WS is to FS. She is definitely on board with that, and her taste in films is changing and how she is watching them seems to be changing as well. It seems like she is taking more time to analyze them and think about them instead of just seeing movies for mostly their entertainment value. We just watched The Seventh Seal the other night and she enjoyed it, which I consider a huge accomplishment, especially considering there was a time not to long ago that she wouldn't even really like to sit down and watch a movie very often, let alone foreign classics

My advice: let the significant other into the crazy DVD world, either way you'll be better off.

My husband and I share our DVDs equally. Some of them are more 'his' (ie. Roger Corman, George Pal & Jackie Chan, Things to Come, Evil Dead series). Some are more mine (Jane Austen adaptations, Iranian films, yoga and fitness), some are our daughter's (Bill & Ted, Legally Blond) and some are everyone's (ie Lord of the Rings, Buffy series). We buy DVDs for ourselves and each other

We count them all We file them all together on the same sets of shelves alphabetically although box sets & TV series are filed separately and Jackie Chan movies are grouped together.

I find it amusing that women are assumed to always be uninterested in technology although my husband's a computer programmer, I was the first to buy a CD player and was more interested in getting a DVD player earlier.

My gf and I count our dvds as one collection.

However the porn dvd's are all mine!

My girlfriend and I consider and keep our collections separate, but for good reason. We're coming up on two years together, but we had both been collecting before we met. My collection sat on a shelf, neatly organized and highly treasured. When a new addition was purchased, it was placed on the shelf with care and pride. Her collection was stuffed into binders, and when a new addition was purchased, the case and everything else but the disc was tossed in the trash.

I don't consider myself anal about my DVDs (that's what they all say), but that was a bit much for me. And, of course, our existing collections when we met could not be easily merged, so we've each just kept our own system and now coordinate who buys what movie when we both want it. Simple as that.

This is an excellent question. I include my girlfriends DVDs as part of my collection, so I can have a complete list of DVDs that are in the house. However, anytime my friends see my list of DVDs, I always get razzed about the chick flicks that are there. So while I do have them combined, we both still know who owns what (granted, I own about 95% of them anyway)...