Please educate me.

My wife knows I love hunting more than anything hobby related. She won\'t stop me unless I\'m about to really screw up something financially. Since I love her, and she is my wife I will fall on the sword occasionally and not hunt. That simple gesture means a lot to her. I haven\'t been married that long, but I will put my wife first. And second :)
 
\"Russel Reed\" said:
Sounds like you are setting yourself up for disaster. Unless she likes to hunt as much as you seem to, don\'t expect her to be there waiting for you when you get home from all that many hunts in other states every year.

With that attitude, I\'d give you chances of a successful marriage about a 1 in 100 shot. God and family should always come first. 42 years of being married to the same wonderful woman have taught me at least that much.
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Russel,
You are correct with your statement, but I assure you only god and family come first with me.

Let me bring a little more into my post, as I failed to fully describe my situation.

My different hunts throughout the states are short, budgeted, and planed for hunts. All of them are generally within a 6 hour radius.

On top of that, my fiance joins me on some of the trips.

I spend mid December until end of august pouring smothering her with love, fun, and all of my attention. Then during my hunting seasons, I have my trips planned, but every second I am home, it\'s always about her.

Additionally, this will most likely be my last hunting season being single and with no kids. (We plan on trying after we get married)

So please don\'t confuse my posts with ignorance or stupidity.
The reason I made this thread was to learn what all of you have to say and do. Not to hear what you guys are doing and saying, then do the complete opposite.

Every hunt is talked about and comprised. So this year will be my final big \"hoorah\" before I have to draw back hunting time and do exactly like we spoke of in the thread.

She will always be my number 1 concern, not a hobby.

I\'m sorry if I am sounding rude. My nerve was stuck when you talked about \"with that attitude\" and my \"1-100 shot.\"

But then I realized that my statement was not clear enough and made me look like a fool.

So this post was just to assure you that this is not my attitude or Outlook.
 
\"elky McElkerson\" said:
My wife knows I love hunting more than anything hobby related. She won\'t stop me unless I\'m about to really screw up something financially. Since I love her, and she is my wife I will fall on the sword occasionally and not hunt. That simple gesture means a lot to her. I haven\'t been married that long, but I will put my wife first. And second :)
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I am doing the same. She loves that I have a hobby and has no issue letting me go. As long as I am not gone a ridiculous amount and as long as I am budgeting for it.

she isn\'t a hunter, but we have found ways to make it fun for both of us. Pre season whitetail hunts, she will come out with me I\'ll hunt early morning and come out and spend the day with her. Then I will hunt the evening.

She also loves shed hunting, camping trips for scouting, etc.

we have also discussed that it\'s healthy to have a little time away from each other. A week away from each other because of hunting makes coming home so much better. The entire time we are separated we are just thinking about the other. It helps you grow even more appreciation for each other.
 
I like your fianc?!

Haha. My wife loves me in \"elk hunting shape\" ( so does my doc). She knows it is 100% related to me even getting off the couch to exercise. And recently she is loving the wild game meat and is even considering cutting out store bought cows and pigs! Hah. I better up my game or dust off a rifle.

Good luck! Being married has been fun. Even tho she quashed my knife purchase today :(.
 
Probably the only thing that saves our marriage come hunting Season, is the fact that my Wife is addicted to elk meat! ;)
 
For the record, I wouldn\'t have two nickels to rub together if it wasn\'t for my wife. Now retirement looks brighter.

Not all of her moves are evil and an attempt to keep me and Fun separated. Haha.
 
Dan,

I can point out a good example of what not do for a marriage.

This is a true story by the way...

Several years ago, we had a neighbor, a guy who looked like Ernest T. Bass from the Andy Griffith show. He drank a lot and lived alone. My wife felt sorry for him and would make a plate for him several times a week and take over to him after supper. She never took it in his house but always gave it him at his front door.

One October morning I was skinning a little doe on the tailgate of my truck in my backyard. He come out of his back door, walked over and asked me why I didn\'t have a place to hang the deer. He proceeded to tell me how I should have my kitchen rigged up for butchering deer. I pretended to listen, finished quartering the deer and asked if he would like some venison. He said yes so we took the quarters over to his house and in his back door and into the kitchen. Low and behold, the man had a hole in his kitchen ceiling with a clevis screwed to the rafter. He said his wife hated having deer hanging up in the kitchen but that\'s the best way to do it. I told him I didn\'t think Dee Dee would appreciate the mess, he said just put a tarp down.

True story.
 
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