I do believe that I live this very situation. My pet is around my daughters (3 daughters) age. Her Dad is my age & works tool & die as I do also runs a beef farm much like I was raised on, we can talk for hrs about either & have. As to lifestyle we live her folks have no idea of course. On the other side of it my pet & my kids get along like old school mates often I can just stay out of the conversation completely. Also my kids know the lifestyle we live, not the intimite details but they have seen our dungeon & know we use it. In fact my son who is a carpenter has done much of the woodwork there. & my youngest helped my lay the carpet when she was 19( who I mite add just last xmas asked me to get her a good pair of handcuffs). I would like to make clear that I never put this in my kids faces. My ex is the 1 that make it clear to them when we split up. guess to try to put a wedge between us though it did back fire on her as they dont care, Im still dad & they love me. Guess inspite of myself , raised them right. I do notice that they are way more accepting of ppls diff life choises than most ppl their age.
Wow this got much longer than I planned