How do you deal with the guilt tripping wife?

[Maxidog]

I am only hunting two days next week and my wife is already giving me the guilt trips since she'll be alone with the kids. My wife is great but I just can't stand the slight guilt trips.

How do you deal with the guilt tripping wife?

[bullcan]

I go anyway, I remind her that hunting is my ONLY passtime. I don't golf, bowl, fish, or anything else, I hunt. I also remind her subtley when she asks to go out with her friends "Sure, it is fine with me, I will watch the kids since you watch them when I go hunting".

[KalamazooKid]

Dress her up like this and take her with you!!!!!!!

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/500/medium/huntin_woman.jpg

[grizzlyadams73]

Divorce!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's Only Going To Get Worse

[Maxidog]

I go anyway, I remind her that hunting is my ONLY passtime. I don't golf, bowl, fish, or anything else, I hunt. I also remind her subtley when she asks to go out with her friends "Sure, it is fine with me, I will watch the kids since you watch them when I go hunting".

Great idea. She was gone all last weekend on a woman's retreat and scrapbooks and is in a bookclub and other girly get togethers. Maybe I need more hobbies and passtimes. I hate to complain but I only get 2 weeks off a year, to me hunting is my therapy for providing for my family.

[FISH]

ahhh.... single life is the best

[outdooralex]

I booked her a room at the Holiday Inn in Mount Pleasant in Dec. I told her and her mom to go gambling at the casino for the weekend. She still won't spend as much as me this hunting season :D

[Due51]

CALMLY tell her that it's hard to leave her and the kids and the guilt trip makes it more difficult. BUT, this is something you REALLY look forward to doing and it's only for a couple days.

If she doesn't respond to that, follow my number 1 motto in life:
BEG FOR FORGIVENESS----NOT PERMISSION.

[huntingfool43]

I have an ex that was like that.:lol: :lol: I ask her if she would like it better if I sat in the bar all night chasing tail or spending time in the woods doing it. She would try to invent reasons to keep me home, didn't work

[Masterblaster1]

i just tell my girlfriend to get over it and i leave it at that, it's worked for the past 3 seasons.....:evil:

[ROBBY MEYERS]

this works best! offer them to go along and make them welcome to go when they get there they will be soooo bored they never come back and every year begg them to go. works for me :D make them fill guilty for not going

[zx10r2004]

:yikes: :dizzy: :coco: :coco: http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/500/mod_smilie_whipping1.gifhttp://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/500/mod_smilie_whipping1.gif time to lay the man law down. :lol:

[mydogisscout]

take her with you, give her a gun and a camera, and put her where she'll see deer...then downwind her so you'll get a shot :D

[Groundsize]

Single life=The best hunting seasons ever. Drop the anchor and go couger hunting at the local watering holes

[dtg]

This was a problem with every girlfriedn I've had since I started hunting 10 years ago. My solution was this, if I'm not "hooked" up by September, then the dating life gets put on hold. I've got my daughter every other weekend and I'm not about to give up what little time I have for hunting, get turned into a battle for attention.

[old graybeard]

Well the one's that I had trouble with are gone;)

[Quack Addict]

I agree - it's better to ask forgiveness than permission.

My wife has never given me any guilt trips about hunting. She even told me, shortly after we ran out of venison from my last deer, "You better fill BOTH your deer tags this season!" and she was serious about it. She loves venison, Philly steak & cheese style.

Does your wife enjoy venison? If so, lay into her that YOU going out hunting is the only way to put it on the table. If she doesn't enjoy venison, MAKE the kids LOVE it and let the young-uns work in your favor :)

[Cut Bait]

Divorce!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's Only Going To Get Worse

This is the short answer. Ask her to go with you, tell her it's important to you as a man. If she says no to either. Get 'er done. She is controlling your life and she always will. Pedophiles can never be cured and neither can controllers(from my wife the Head Dr.). Leave now. It will suck but it's the thing to do as you will one day see (as many of us have). You will pay a lot of money for shrinks to tell you just what I have. PM me and I will give you an address to send me the money for a liter of Wisers and we will be even. It will be the best $30.00 you ever spent.

I have been there and have the T-Shirt. If you don't listen to this advice, be sure to come back and mention this post and eat crow. We told you so and you asked....Best of luck!:)

[GWPguy]

Did you say somehting honey? I was too busy packing.

[EYESON]

These issues should have been talked about before you both said I do. I sat with my now wife before we got married and told her this is who I am and I am not changing like a good friend of mine did. He use to be at camp every year, he got married and had kids, his wife use to call him after the first day asking if he would come home, now he doesn't even make it for a weekend. My two sisters even said to her if you cannot put up with him going hunting and fishing you better leave now, because he woun't change.
I am not saying be mean or have a fight about it, but I think both parties need to understand what each other likes to do and needs to be soupportive of their hobbies. When I am packing for deer season I know she would like me to stay, but I remind her this is what I do. She says yes I know.

[stillwaiting]

been there, done that. Ah, the single life is good during hunting season. Let's see, April and/or May turkey, June, July, August off, September through March, deer, coyote, fox, etc.

If my calculations are correct, that only leaves three months out of the year for a woman. :lol:

[deepwoods]

A suggestion that I would make is be careful about all the preliminary things. If your wife was is anything like my ex-wife a week of gun hunting seemed like three months. Talking to your buddies all the time. Getting things ready like washing hunting clothes, sharpening knifes, shooting, packing , etc...... can make it seem like an obsession. It may be but don't make her think so.;) Try to keep things as low key as possible until it's time and it won't bother her so much I bet.

Don't be like me and start talking about next years season at the New Year's party.:lol:

[milmo1]

My wife will occasionally do the same. I tell her I'll miss the family terribly (that is the truth), and I call everyday and drop a post card to the kids. If she gets a little snippy, I tell her that this hunting is no surprise. I have gone the same dates and durations every year - even when dating. I am happy to reciprocate and watch the kids while she does her thing. However, she really doesn't have a "thing". I of course point out that it isn't my fault she doesn't go anywhere. I work 2 jobs 6-7 days a week, this is my reward and she knows it.
As the years have worn on, she's almost happy when I'm gone. ;)

[KLR]

I am only hunting two days next week and my wife is already giving me the guilt trips since she'll be alone with the kids. My wife is great but I just can't stand the slight guilt trips.

How do you deal with the guilt tripping wife?



Get her a boyfriend....

[dtg]

Anybody remember that "Man Show" add for the Gay friend. You call the place up and they deliver a gay man to your door, to talk with your wife, decorate, cuddle, shop, etc. Do all the things you don't like to do.:lol: :lol:

[deepwoods]

Anybody remember that "Man Show" add for the Gay friend. You call the place up and they deliver a gay man to your door, to talk with your wife, decorate, cuddle, shop, etc. Do all the things you don't like to do.:lol: :lol:

Classic!! Cry during movies.:lol:

[Freestone]

I have the same problem. It's tough but I'm just not hunting as much until my two boys (3 & 6) are old enough to come along. It will be a long wait but my priorities are family first then hunting. I couldn't break my kid's hearts over hunting. I just let her know that any time she wants to go out with friends I'll watch the kids. That buys me a couple days to gun hunt and a few times to bow hunt.

[EYESON]

I don't put hunting or fishing first, but any family member that truly loves you will love you along with what you love to do.

[One Eye]

I do not have that problem. In fact, my wife has always been very supportive in my hunting. Perhaps I "screened" a little better than some men before "signing on the dotted line". :evil: :evil:

Dan

[tiller killer]

I do not have that problem. In fact, my wife has always been very supportive in my hunting. Perhaps I "screened" a little better than some men before "signing on the dotted line". :evil: :evil:

Dan


Same here, well kinda.... my gf of 2.5 years is awesome, her dad and brother both hunt, She knows when its time to hunt and usaly asks when ill be going so that she can make plans with her friends, though much much different than prison errrrrrr marrage.... im not to worried about it.


A+ for us "One Eye" we know how to pick em!



duke

[OSXer]

My solution was this, if I'm not "hooked" up by September, then the dating life gets put on hold.
That is EXACTLY what I do as well!:D

[TNL]

We planned our wedding and kids around hunting season so there would be conflicts. It took her a few years while we were dating to understand how important it is to me. At first she thought I was "choosing " hunting over her. After I got through to her that it is something that is part of my soul and I only do it for 60 days a year, she seemed to understand.

Now she spends that hunting time as time for herself with my full blessing. I take her out for a nice dinner (the kind she has to dress up for--women love that) the Saturday night before the opener. And I tell her that I'm all hers on December 1 (or after duck season is through ;)).

Bottom line is to tell her how important it is to you and that if something were that important to her, you would hesistate to oblige her. MAKE SURE YOU TELL HER IT"S NOT A COMPETITION BETWEEN HER AND HUNTING!!! That will go along way. Good luck my friend.

[William H Bonney]

My wife and I probably don't say 10 words to each other from Sept. until ice out.:rolleyes: That's just the way it is.

[JAG]

This is to you young guys. I will be celebrating my 41st wedding anniversary in two days. The only hunting seasons that I have missed is when I was serving in the Army and one year that I was in the hospital for the entire gun season. My tip is this. From the day that you start dating or get engaged or married, set the rules of Oct/Nov. In 41 years my wife has never made me feel guilty about going hunting because she knew that was the way it is during hunting season. We have our arguments about things but not hunting. She loves the outdoors but does not hunt. If you start out on the right foot, hunting will never be a problem for your wife. Break them in right. If you give in to her early in the relationship you're going to have trouble every year. Trust me on this...Jag

[2PawsRiver]

First and foremost......congrats JAG, 41 years symbolizes many positive things.

As for the thread, I don't deal with it. She puts a few extra things on the "Honey Do" List before I leave, but she gives me minimal grief.

The way I figure it she's a grump and out of service for one week a month, times 12 months equals three months.........Oct through Dec.......three months......we're even:D ......and I'm not grumpy.:)

[BIG DAVE]

no grief here, i just look her in the eyes and take my right hand and
thump my chest, and say i'm the man, i will go hunting and you will
have not a word say so. then she looks up at me with her scared eyes
and says anything for you, your the best. then i wake up :lol: my wife
is the best about letting me have time with family and friend hunting or fishing
as long its in our buget, she planes ahead stuff to do with our to girls
when im gone. before kids she used to walk the woods with me untill
i shot thumper.sat her in my blind couple of times laughing to hard
because she was snoring loud. most part is that i hunt with my dad
and he is getting up in age(75) and realize that it means alot to me
to be there (he still wants to walk to his blind 3/4 mile from the car stubern pollock) but thats what he loves, my oldest 13yr is bugging me to take
hunter safety with her mabe i will have the same angel when im elder

[mjmmusser]

Hell, I must be lucky with the wife. All I gotta do is give her some loving and I get to go from Tuesday until Sunday night then back down 2 days later Until Sunday. Plus my mother, whom I just found out is an anti hunter, is watching the kid for 3 days. Deer camp HERE I COME!

--Mike

[JC Keith]

Naggin'.. whatz dat?

I found me a good ol yooper girl while we were both in the service. The only argument we have its how I can get her in the shotgun woods, w/o a rifle (old habits die hard)

She never gives me grief and readily goes with me in the woods. Hell last year, we argued over who was going to gut her deer... and she was mad I wanted to do it FOR HER!!

Find yerself a good country, down to earth woman. And the only thing you will have to worry about if being out hunted by your better half! Life is good!!!!

Stay safe all

Happy hunting

[Chris@hydeboats.com]

My wife and I probably don't say 10 words to each other from Sept. until ice out.:rolleyes: That's just the way it is.

I like your style.:lol:

[ART]

My wife thinks I need to hunt more- I work too much.
It has now been 16 years of her bugging me that I really need to go to Africa.
She likes to see deer come through the door, and runs the grinder for processing the many deer that I kill.
And we planned our wedding to miss deer season.

[huntingfool43]

When my wife and I decided to get married she started picking dates, finally told her forget anything from Sept 15 to about end of Febuary. Harvested a doe last night, soon as it was hung up and skinned she remove the inner tenderloins all by her self and thats what we had for supper. Just gotta teach them what pryorities are all about.

[WALLEYEvision]

...How do you deal with the guilt tripping wife?

LIE...tell her, "Dangit, my company is sending me out-of-town on business for the next two weeks. It sounds like I'll be working in a rough part of town so I'd better bring along my gun. And just incase the furnace goes out in my motel room, I'm gonna bring along some warm clothes." :lol:

Opps...almost forgot, add this line too, "I'm gonna miss you!"

[DRHUNTER]

I told my wife before we were married that I hunt and fish and I never want to hear any complaints about it. She never has and we have been married 33 years next May. In fact she is in the kitchen right now cooking food for me to take upnorth Monday. Now that I think about it she has always been real happy that I go hunting for extended periods of time.:tdo12:

[Kearly Shuffle]

I think that it probably makes it easier without kids. My wife and I do not have kids, and I could see the problem if we did. Suddenly she is stuck 24-7 for a week watching them. As others have said, I catch the minimal grief before hand, but nothing waranting a fight or argument. It's usually just the sudden "leaky faucet" or "noisy furnace" that needs to be addressed. But really has nothing wrong with it. :D

[GMslave]

I hope that someday women will come with a Product Label Code or something. So one could quickly scan the ingredients to see what the product contains and decide whether or not it's something you would like to purchase.
Instead, we get a Grab Bag with a few indecipherable clues written in code, and usually a Secret Surprise inside. :coco:

[ih772]

I hope that someday women will come with a Product Label Code or something. So one could quickly scan the ingredients to see what the product contains and decide whether or not it's something you would like to purchase.
Instead, we get a Grab Bag with a few indecipherable clues written in code, and usually a Secret Surprise inside. :coco:

:yeahthat: :lol: .

[trouttime]

I hope that someday women will come with a Product Label Code or something. So one could quickly scan the ingredients to see what the product contains and decide whether or not it's something you would like to purchase.
Instead, we get a Grab Bag with a few indecipherable clues written in code, and usually a Secret Surprise inside. :coco:

Now that is priceless! :lol: :lol:

[Whit1]

It's simple! Give them the Sanity Test before applying the Sex Test!!!!!!!! If they fail the first one don't get involved with the second. :lol: .......Sorry, guys.....and gals........I couldn't resist! :lol:

[MiketheElder]

BE THE MAN! That's just the way it is. She'll bitch and moan, don't you say a word, just look at her. You know how you do the kids when they cry and you just look at them like "Go ahead and cry, I don't care". I made my wife cry in the car once. I just looked over at her and then back at the road. She stopped.

One day at the marina, she showed up at noon Sunday because she had to work Fri., Sat. I said "I think I'll walk over and get a bag of ice." She looked in the cooler and there were a few cubes floating around and the water was cold. She said something. I said "I think I'll go buy a couple of bags of ice." She said something again. I said "I'm going to go buy three ****ing bags of ice. I'm throwing one of them in the lake...................." She stopped.

Another day I threatened to buy a Sunday paper for everybody on the dock. "We get that same paper at home" she said.

BUT.................and there's always a but. My favorite phrase to my wife is "Whatever you want, Honey." But there are limits and she knows it.

[trouttime]

It's simple! Give them the Sanity Test before applying the Sex Test!!!!!!!! If they fail the first one don't get involved with the second. :lol: .......Sorry, guys.....and gals........I couldn't resist! :lol:

Milt,
You are wise beyond your years....:yikes: that ranks you right up there with Einstein!! :evil: ;) :hide:

[Whit1]

Milt,
You are wise beyond your years....:yikes: that ranks you right up there with Einstein!! :evil: ;) :hide:

That's Solomon not Einstein!!!!!!!!!!! :lol:

[Ninja]

Do what I did.....buy a hunting and fishing store and use it as your only source of income to provide for your famil.

How can she "NO" to field-testing the equipment and keeping your finger on the pulse of the industry!!!

[walleyeman2006]

i take my wife hunting and fishing with me and lay the guilt trip on her when she cant go lol

[theredmission]

I don't put hunting or fishing first, but any family member that truly loves you will love you along with what you love to do.

Well put.

[mightywhitehunter]

Wow, my wife would never do that but this year it is me giving her the guilt trip (sort of). She's getting her masters degree and she's gone 3 nights a week at school and every Saturday. I can't leave work early so that leaves me Sunday each week to hunt.

I have this hunting season and next to go through this and then hopefully I can go 4 nights a week instead of just one (Sunday)


Been out 3 times so far and only does. Damn!

[mightywhitehunter]

This is to you young guys. I will be celebrating my 41st wedding anniversary in two days. The only hunting seasons that I have missed is when I was serving in the Army and one year that I was in the hospital for the entire gun season. My tip is this. From the day that you start dating or get engaged or married, set the rules of Oct/Nov. In 41 years my wife has never made me feel guilty about going hunting because she knew that was the way it is during hunting season. We have our arguments about things but not hunting. She loves the outdoors but does not hunt. If you start out on the right foot, hunting will never be a problem for your wife. Break them in right. If you give in to her early in the relationship you're going to have trouble every year. Trust me on this...Jag

Or you could just marry a full blooded German like me and they feel guilty if they don't back their man on whatever they do--I'm serious! Works for me! :) 17 years of marrital bliss (seriously)

My above post shows how I am going through the opposite because of her schooling! I'm full blooded Swedish! Oh no!

[ESOX]

My wife and I have an understanding. I have to get out a LOT or I go nuts.
I'll take the kids along as much as possible, but on extended trips that just doesn't usually work. I'll gladly send her off to the spa or whatever she wants as needed so she can maintain her sanity too.

[Dedge]

I hope that someday women will come with a Product Label Code or something. So one could quickly scan the ingredients to see what the product contains and decide whether or not it's something you would like to purchase.
Instead, we get a Grab Bag with a few indecipherable clues written in code, and usually a Secret Surprise inside. :coco:

:lol::lol::lol:

This should be on plaque or something!


Dan

[wolfpacks999]

i don't understand women who give their husbands guilt trips. i myself am a wife of a hunter. i hunt too maybe thats the difference. i knew from day one of dating that hunting was a big part of his life and that he looks forward to it all year. it is what keeps him sane. he is a good spouse, father and works hard. how could i deny him of something that makes him happy, he would never do that to me. this year he has to work opening day, i feel bad but hes been laid off for a month but has to work these 2 weeks starting on the 14th, but i am off to go hunting by myself opening day :). i told him that the weekend is all his and ill make sure that his hunting clothes are laid out, coffee in the thermo and breakfast is ready. i think the best time in our marriage is around hunting season because when he comes back to the house with his chest all swollen and that smile for ear to ear because he got deer, that moment is priceless and i know i was a part of that.

[Tahquamenon]

One word........JEWELRY

[fulldraw]

I must be lucky to have such an understanding wife. I have bow hunted almost every weekend tha I can have taken two deer already and I am going up with the guys next weekend then will be hunting the weekend after that down hear. My wife understand the months of Oct.-Dec. are hunting months.

[Asterea]

Hmm... Well you do what I told my sons to do . Pick you wife to share your life and not just your lust LOL> You will be much happier in the end.
And do as my dad did, take your daughters hunting and train them right from the time they are old enough to carry a gun. You will be doing your future son in law a big favor, not to mention making your daughters life happier too!

[john warren]

ok heres what i'd do. hire a baby sittier for this weekend. take her to her favorite place to eat. take her to a stupid girly movie. take her shoppijng for some usless thing she wants. yeah,,, thats it, romance her a little. let her know it means the world to you that she supports your hunting. and that you know its an imposition on her. and thank her. funny how women appreciate this stuff.I am only hunting two days next week and my wife is already giving me the guilt trips since she'll be alone with the kids. My wife is great but I just can't stand the slight guilt trips.

How do you deal with the guilt tripping wife?

[Gilbey]

:lol: I'm reading some of the responses right now and have to laugh.

Last night I went to camp, did a few things, and in that short amount of time my wife switched into somebody else, I wish the aliens would return her.

She was fine, I come back and one thing after another. You didn't do this or that, I did that wrong too, can't do nuthing right blah blah you're going to camp for so long what about the kids I have PTO, darts night, cub scouts and you are just going to camp as she takes my money out of my pants and goes to bed saying you aren't going to camp I'm leaving for the weekend after you help me with the kids week.

Well, after I slept on the couch woke up got the kids up and walked out saying not a word, my mother in law (works for me) gets a call and I need to just let her know when I'm going and I can have my money back.:sick:

Hmmmm.....reminds me of the movie Sybil. Called up my buddies this morning......."you getting it too?". Yup, me too. Crazy women.

[GVSUKUSH]

Women are cetifiably crazy.....some more than others. This I have learned in 3.5 years of marriage. It's a fact. I dare you to find one that is totally sane.

With that said (and she is one of the "less crazy" ones), this year we found out my wife was pregnant.....she told me "You better get your hunting in this fall, it ain't gonna be so easy next year" Long story short, I took her up on that to the fullest extent and she's starting to get a little pissed!:lol: But the fact that I early goose hunt, grouse hunt, woodcock hunt, duck hunt, pheasant hunt, deer hunt, ice fish, spring panfish, steelhead, bass, stream trout, etc. etc. etc probably makes her less suseptible to let me out of the house for the entire fall.:lol: Next year I'm dropping the less important ventures to earn some brownie points for the fall, if it's just a few weekends, she won't care. If it's EVERY weekend, like this year, I get guilt trips.

[Briar Field]

I hunt a lot an my wife knew it when we got married 2 years ago. Over the last week we have been doing a lot of talking an no hunting. I do a lot around the house work a lot to be able to afford all the fun. But all that time at work and doing things around the house, I do not spend enough time with her.

The statement she told me "I want you to be as passionate about me as you are about hunting." So that is what I need to work on. If she is happy then I can hunt as much as I want. So in general, I think a number of us need to follow those words. Lets be as passonet about our wives as we are of hunting so we can enjoy both

[RIVER LADY]

I hunt a lot an my wife knew it when we got married 2 years ago. Over the last week we have been doing a lot of talking an no hunting. I do a lot around the house work a lot to be able to afford all the fun. But all that time at work and doing things around the house, I do not spend enough time with her.

The statement she told me "I want you to be as passionate about me as you are about hunting." So that is what I need to work on. If she is happy then I can hunt as much as I want. So in general, I think a number of us need to follow those words. Lets be as passonet about our wives as we are of hunting so we can enjoy both


Ok guys, he's onto something here. Before I took up hunting, I must admitt. I was one. Except I didn't give guilt trips, it was more like, "Whatever, I hope you don't see ****". Oh yeah, just a wee bit mean about it. He blames me for not getting a buck for 28 years. :rant: But, I thought the same thing. Why the hell isn't he this passionate about me? Where does he get off? He gets to do everything. Then one day he made the mistake of saying, why don't you start hunting? So I did. I think to this day he regrets it in a very small way, but, very proud of the accompllishments I have made over the years and has made our 20 year marriage even stronger.

So guys.......just make sure your wife feels like she is your crown jewel.

Show her some passion. No woman enjoys being second to anything when it comes to her man. ;)

[FREEPOP]

After 14 or so years our biggest argument is, who gets to hunt which stand :D

[Violator22]

I wake her up the morning I am leaving, ask her "Sex or hunting?" She usually tells me have a good time hunting. :D Les

[RIVER LADY]

I wake her up the morning I am leaving, ask her "Sex or hunting?" She usually tells me have a good time hunting. :D Les

You are such a bad man. :lol: :lol:

[john warren]

come on lets face it..... boobs cause insanity!

[KalamazooKid]

i don't understand women who give their husbands guilt trips. i myself am a wife of a hunter. i hunt too maybe thats the difference. i knew from day one of dating that hunting was a big part of his life and that he looks forward to it all year. it is what keeps him sane. he is a good spouse, father and works hard. how could i deny him of something that makes him happy, he would never do that to me. this year he has to work opening day, i feel bad but hes been laid off for a month but has to work these 2 weeks starting on the 14th, but i am off to go hunting by myself opening day :). i told him that the weekend is all his and ill make sure that his hunting clothes are laid out, coffee in the thermo and breakfast is ready. i think the best time in our marriage is around hunting season because when he comes back to the house with his chest all swollen and that smile for ear to ear because he got deer, that moment is priceless and i know i was a part of that.

God Bless you Wolfpack!

[RIVER LADY]

i don't understand women who give their husbands guilt trips. i myself am a wife of a hunter. i hunt too maybe thats the difference. i knew from day one of dating that hunting was a big part of his life and that he looks forward to it all year. it is what keeps him sane. he is a good spouse, father and works hard. how could i deny him of something that makes him happy, he would never do that to me. this year he has to work opening day, i feel bad but hes been laid off for a month but has to work these 2 weeks starting on the 14th, but i am off to go hunting by myself opening day :). i told him that the weekend is all his and ill make sure that his hunting clothes are laid out, coffee in the thermo and breakfast is ready. i think the best time in our marriage is around hunting season because when he comes back to the house with his chest all swollen and that smile for ear to ear because he got deer, that moment is priceless and i know i was a part of that.

I do believe it is because we are hunters. Before I hunted, I didn't have a clue. Now, I understand that passion. Mine too will be missing opening day well, with us anyways and he doesn't have much faith in where he will be hunting in the U.P. It just won't be the same without him here. But, he just says, there will be more. You and the kids go tear'em up. I want to see meat and horns hanging in the garage when I get home. I hope we can fullfill his request.:)

[Rumajz]

Lets be as passonet about our wives as we are of hunting so we can enjoy both

You got it man. You'll enjoy WAAAAYYYY more than hunting (you would not believe how much more) if you are truly passionate about your woman.

[Barry]

It helps if your hunting is a family tradition. It is much easier for me to go hunting for extended periods if its with my dad and brothers than with my buddies.

I had my toughest time getting out hunting when the kids were little. Got a lot easier once they were old enough to go with me. She could not get us out of the house fast enough

[trouttime]

It helps if your hunting is a family tradition. It is much easier for me to go hunting for extended periods if its with my dad and brothers than with my buddies.

Barry you hit the nail on the head!! This will be my third year on the river on Thanksgiving...Hey it is with my Dad and there are not many more of these fishing trips to be enjoyed, I'll take them while I can!!! ;)

[fasthunter]

I would just go. It's only 2 days. She will get over it. It's not like you can go everyday during the year. I was fortunate to hunt with my friends hot cousin in Kentucky this weekend though. Girls that really dig hunting are AWESOME!!!! To bad she lives 2 states away.:rolleyes:

[bully06]

I am only hunting two days next week and my wife is already giving me the guilt trips since she'll be alone with the kids. My wife is great but I just can't stand the slight guilt trips.

How do you deal with the guilt tripping wife?

Problem solved.

The Hormone Hostage
The Hormone Hostage knows that there are days in the month when all a man has to do is open his mouth and he takes his life in his own hands! This is a handy guide that should be as common as a driver's license in the wallet of every husband, boyfriend, co-worker or significant other!

DANGEROUS:
SAFER:
SAFEST:
ULTRA SAFE:

What's for dinner?
Can I help you with dinner?
Where would you like to go for dinner?
Here, have some wine.

Are you wearing that?
Wow, you sure look good in brown!
WOW! Look at you!
Here, have some wine

What are you so worked up about?
Could we be overreacting?
Here's my paycheck.
Here, have some wine.

Should you be eating that?
You know, there are a lot of apples left.
Can I get you a piece of chocolate with that?
Here, have some wine.

What did you DO all day?
I hope you didn't over-do it today.
I've always loved you in that robe!
Here, have some more wine.


13 Things PMS Stands For:

1 Pass My Shotgun

2 Psychotic Mood Shift

3 Perpetual Munching Spree

4 Puffy Mid-Section

5 People Make me Sick

6 Provide Me with Sweets

7 Pardon My Sobbing

8 Pimples May Surface

9 Pass My Sweat pants

10. Pissy Mood Syndrome

11. Plainly; Men Suck

12. Pack My Stuff

and my favorite one.

13. Potential Murder Suspect


And remember: Money talks .... but Chocolate SINGS!!!

[Undertow]

Me and my girlfriend go through this all year. I fish almost everyday and night if possible. Then hunting comes. I give her winter. As of december 1st Im hers. Last night I told her I was going to buy a boat. She said no problem as long as it has a place for her to sun tan. I said no, this is a riverrunninbeerdrinkinasskicking fishing boat. If you want a floating tanning bed than you buy it. She gave me the look. I gave her one back and she backed down. She knows better than to mess with my fishing. I love fishing more than hunting. Women bitch, its just in there genetics. Men or at least me just dont care, its in my genetics passed down from the men in my family. We just dont listen. Ask my mom or my grandma. Theirs no changing us. Thanks Dad and Grandpa.
Undertow

[Matt]

One word........JEWELRY
Or furniture... Or confirming plans for the FAMILY vacation in March...

I get it from all angles. My father in law never went anywhere without his wife. Until I met his daughter. Now he takes off snowmobiling with me/my dad, and joins us for deer camp, along with my brother in law.

Imagine the grief I get from my mother in law! But she doesn't really mean it.

Kids make all the difference. I'm leaving my wife, a stay at home mother of 3 boys under 6, at home for 4 days. This is the poor lady that has to do this all day anyhow, with relief when I come home from work. I feel guilty even without her adding any.

What makes it work is that I actively encourage her to go out with her friends whenever she wants, so long as I don't have to work. I wish she would go out more!

[GVSUKUSH]

One word........JEWELRY

I can't, she spent all of our money.

[thedude]

my wife is out back training my dog at the moment....... i don't get the guilt trip unless i'm really really gone a lot ... like gone for 9 days then try to go hunting all the following weekend as well or something.

[GVDocHoliday]

my wife is out back training my dog at the moment....... i don't get the guilt trip unless i'm really really gone a lot ... like gone for 9 days then try to go hunting all the following weekend as well or something.

Dude that beer looks delicous...what is it? I'm a guiness fan so anything that's dark with a nice foamy head gets my attention!!

[shawnfire]

I just drive her nuts, so then she wants me to leave...:yikes:

[Madduck98]

I guess i'm lucky to be blessed with a wife who knows that hunting & fishing are a part of my life as much as her and the baby.Also she enjoys tagging along and being our phtograher, gotten some nice pics that otherwise would not have been possible. A guy I know has to get a "hall pass" to go duck'in. I keep telling him to try and talk to her about this but he'sa big chicken.:chicken: