I'm in the same boat, but I have been playing around 50 years with a collection that "accumulated somehow."
I am at 50+ guitars (not to mention amps) in 3 storage units (25 are Guilds) and I really must "thin the herd" at some point. In the past year, I have given 8 guitars to a local charity for a Women's Shelter.
I had kept myself to 1 acoustic six string, 1 acoustic 12-string and 1 electric for years... But then along came eBay and that damn "BUY IT NOW" button!!!
And it got to the point where I'd go to one of the storage units, open a case and say "Oh, did I have a blue one of that model?" When you open a case and don't recall buying the guitar, that's when you have too many.
And when it was 12 or less guitars, I would rotate the ones at home and play all of them over the course of a year, but now there are guitars in storage I probably haven't touched in ten years. My buying has dropped off dramatically.
First World problems!!
As far as Wives, my current Wife has no problem with my guitars. My former Wife was divorced for other reasons. And, as for the comment of a divorce costing $700 to $15K... I wish!!! My divorce dragged on for 10 years and I stopped counting the lawyer fees when they hit $40K and I filed for Bankruptcy. But, yes, in the end it was worth it!!!
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