Are all wives like this????

[wall_guy_101]

My gal and i have bee hitched since this summer and i just have to know......Do they always give you heck for wanting to fish??.......I mean come on, she knew of my passion well before we tied the knot and now it's like trying to pull teeth to go.......HELP?? Please tell me i'm not the only one...

[jimh874]

your not alone

jim

[whitewolf6647]

I got lucky and married one who likes to fish just as much as me, she acctually only gets PO'd when I go fishing without her. But I have two buddies that I always went hunting and fishing with and now they're scared to even thinking about asking the wives becasue they get reamed every time almost. they do get out once in a while. By that I mean once or twice every month MAYBE!! Now both of them have kids to so that makes it much more difficult. So no you're not alone.

[mpester]

Wait until you two have a kid! I got to fish and/or hunt two or three days a week before I got married. Then it was down to two days a week once we got married. Now that we have the kid, I get out one day a week. I would not change a thing. In a couple of years, the kid will want to start fishing and I can not wait. Maybe I will get out more when she wants to fish and hunt.

[mltjanderson]

no there're not all like that. my guess is that you need to compromise some of your fishing time but what is more important? My answer is my marriage (25 years this july} yes sometimes she gets upset. But she also will go out and bring me food and bait to the access if I stay later or need bait.{thank God for cell phones} But she will not drive on the ice. period! I have to compromise and meet her at the access. my advice to you is this go when you can but most important be home when you said you would. 5:00 is 5:00 not 5:05 or later, put your equipment away when you get home and thank her for letting you go. No I'm not henpecked just in love with the girl i married!

[ERIC76]

YEP THEY ARE, AND ESPECIALLY AFTER YOU HAVE A KID. DON'T YOU HAVE YOUR PRIORITIES IN ORDER, I AM ASKED.

[Gissert]

My wife, AKA the Warden, is great about me hunting and fishing. Before we had our kid, she came with me most of the time. She came from a hunting and fishing family, so it was not a new concept to her.

Now that we are parents, I don't get out as much as I would like to, but that is fine. When I do get out, I make sure that she gets some '"Mommytime" before and/or after I get back. I do my best to get home when I said I would, and if I run late, I call her and let her know.

I hope you can get things worked out so it does not seem like "pulling teeth."

[bwtrout]

Yep, you never read that first chapter in the manual either.

[jig-em]

When the kids were little, it was difficult to get out and fish. As they got older, no problem to go, as long as the kids went. Now, I wouldn't know what to do without my son fishing with me. Mom has no problem with the boys out fishing. I guess I'm just lucky!

jig-em

[Dan Thiem]

Nope, they are all a little different. My wife even brings pizza out to the fish house for us. I go fishing at least twice a week and she has never said anything about me fishing too much.

[hanson]

I guess there are worse things you could be doing to affect your marriage than fishing too much.

[stick]

I think Gissert has a great point about making special time for his wife. That is what we end up doing, but the only trouble is that it seems like we are hardly together as a family during a weekend.

[wall eyell be]

When she gets annoyed enough with me that she just doesn't want to see or hear me for the next few hours, she'll say "Why don't you go fishing?"

P.S. I don't ,however, recommend provoking her as a regular strategy to gain more fishing opportunities.

Seriously though, she understands that a few hours on the water usually alleviates whatever was stressing me (which is what was causing me to be rather annoying to begin with).

WISE WOMAN, eh ?

[Eric Wettschreck]

There's a manual?????? Where do I get one????

[Catfish John]

My wife used to get annoyed by my fishing habit, but we were able to work it out. I now schedule my fishing trips so that they don't conflict with "together" time. I fish nearly every Saturday and Sunday very early in the morning and I am usually home by the time my wife and 2 pre-school age boys are done with breakfast. I get to fish and still spend time with the family. Besides, fishing in the early morning has its benefits, no crowds and a prime time at dawn. When the weather is nice, I take the boys out for an afternoon on the ice for a double-header.

[picksbigwagon]

Welcome to the life...........ALL women think they can change men and their "awful" ways.....My wife lets me go out ice fishing anytime after the kids are in bed.......the other 9 months of the year is a little different....that's okay, when my two boys get a little older, they will be used to my advantage: hunting dog, boat, hunting and fishing trips instead of trips to shopping destinations......she doesn't realize the turn around that is coming in 5 years........

[Fishing-Around]

I guess I got a good one as well, she is the one who set up our second honeymoon,coming up in two weeks, up at LOW

And yes we do have kids and that does slow it down a bit, but my little ones are "usually" more fun at times than a slow bite on the ice...

[Deitz Dittrich]

Well, not to rock the boat here, but they are not all created equal... I searched long and hard for my sole mate. I like to tell people that I live close enough to the lake that I can hear my wife mowing the lawn while I am out fishing. And as sad as that sounds, its true. Not once has she ever given me grief about my fishing, and I make it out to the lake about 150 times a year if not more. She does come with on occasion, but not often. I think the key is this... I try and help around the house as much a possible. Cooking, laundry, vacume, Ect when I am home... we also do not have kids and that is a big part of it as well I am sure.

just know.. they are not all equal.. AND NO YOU CANT HAVE MINE!!!!

[setterguy]

My advice to you is this - set up a schedule that will work for both of you. My wife and I have done this and its worked out great. I would agree with a previous post that said be home when you say you're going to be, this makes a big difference, at least at my house. Life and ecspecially marriage are about compromise, make sure you find a balance between family and hobbies, and if you can combine the two even better!

[Riverratpete]

hahahaha...yeah, they are. After 18 years of marriage more than a few spats we seem to have found a happy medium, but...it took some time and you have to be willing to stick to your guns but also be able to compromise (huh? you say?) I must say that now that the kids are older I don't get nearly the grieve I used to and it helps that my son loves fishing and hunting as much as the old man - thank-you god!. Good Luck!

[The Grebe]

101...Nope! We have been married for 27 years and not once in all that time can I remember my wife ever giving me the business about hunting, or fishing.

Never has she said anything negative when I wanted to buy a different boat, or a new gun, or any of the other piece of sporting equipment, but you have to understand that what goes around, comes around!

Like dealing with the Godfather, at some point there will be something that you can't refuse, a trip, a new bedroom set, or some other thing for the house, or property, maybe a new piece of jewelery, something?

On top of that, I only know one other person that likes fish as much as I do and thats my wife! Maybe it's the Norweigan?

Nah, they don't all crab about it, as long as there is a little equal time. I feel I'm pretty lucky!

[wall eyell be]

Bedroom set Jewelry

We went Valentines shopping last night and my wife picked out a new pair of Rocky boots with thinsulate for my gift to her .

[mudman]

Here is the best advice I can give you from experience.

Either get out now and move on or come to an agreement BEFORE YOU HAVE KIDS!!!!! Right now your at the no harm no foul stage and if you have kids I think your are then at a different level of commitment.

If you can't fish/hunt now your gonna get less with kids and then start to resent her. and its a slippery slope from there my friend.

[The_Duckslayer]

Well I N Joy hunting much more than fishing. Before we were married I told the wife she could tell me a lot of things but don't ever tell me that I can't go hunting. Well, I was kind of serious when I said it! However, to date she has never told me that I can not go hunting. On the flip side though, I have never told her that she can not do something that she wanted to do. A lot of it has to do with the timing! I am sure that she would flat say no if I were wanting to go hunting instead of taking her out on our anniversary Take care and N Joy the Hunt././Jimbo

[efgh]

Before you guys were married you did pretty much as you pleased when it came to fishing and hunting, as soon as you said I DO, you were under new management,my wife and myself have been married 45 years this Feb.I used to get a lot of grief when I wanted to go fishing in the early years, her dad liked to fish so we fished together for 40 years, there was no, you can;t go while I was with her dad, guess I wasn;t trusted alone.