Hunting time and spouse/girlfriend--how to get more time in the woods

I see some of you guys are newly married and/or are having babies for the first time. Time for some advice to get more time in the woods. Do you guys have some tips that allow you get more time in the woods while still maintaining harmony with your wife/girfriend? Add to the list and then copy and past the list just like the contest sign up.

1. Do the dishes every day of the week you are hunting hard

2. Pick some odd chore to do without any prompting from your spouse...makes them think you are really thinking about the house/her and not hunting. But you have an alterior motive.

3. "Randomly" send flowers to your loved one during the hunting season...twice. Set up the flower delivery online prior to the season. This is a big one. You should gain 3-4 more days to hunt per year just from this one act.

 

Great advice Jeff. I used that mindset the last two years and I had a great time hunting/vacationing with my whole family.

 

5. If you're just starting out, let her know who you are and what you're about from the very beginning! Works well for me :D

 

I just got lucky and found a beautiful girl who loves to archery hunt and fish!

 

1. Do the dishes every day of the week you are hunting hard

2. Pick some odd chore to do without any prompting from your spouse...makes them think you are really thinking about the house/her and not hunting. But you have an alterior motive.

3. "Randomly" send flowers to your loved one during the hunting season...twice. Set up the flower delivery online prior to the season. This is a big one. You should gain 3-4 more days to hunt per year just from this one act.

4. Don't view your vacation time as YOUR (and exclude your wife/family) vacation time.

5. If you're just starting out, let her know who you are and what you're about from the very beginning! Works well for me

6. I have my friends call the house and leave messages that there going hunting (even if there not), then I mope around the house and put the "every body gets to go hunting but me" guilt trip on her.

7. Turn your wife/girlfriend into a bloodthirsty arrow flinging machine that wants to hunt more than you do. That'll definitely increase your time in the field, like it or not! And what's not to like?! (Oh yeah, packing her game...)

 

Buy her a shut up gift, a friend of mine bought his wife an expensive necklace or a ring to shut her up for the whole season. it didn't work she still
b!@ched


good luck with whatever you try or do!!!!!!!!!

 

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1. Do the dishes every day of the week you are hunting hard

2. Pick some odd chore to do without any prompting from your spouse...makes them think you are really thinking about the house/her and not hunting. But you have an alterior motive.

3. "Randomly" send flowers to your loved one during the hunting season...twice. Set up the flower delivery online prior to the season. This is a big one. You should gain 3-4 more days to hunt per year just from this one act.

4. Don't view your vacation time as YOUR (and exclude your wife/family) vacation time.

5. If you're just starting out, let her know who you are and what you're about from the very beginning! Works well for me

6. I have my friends call the house and leave messages that there going hunting (even if there not), then I mope around the house and put the "every body gets to go hunting but me" guilt trip on her.

7. Turn your wife/girlfriend into a bloodthirsty arrow flinging machine that wants to hunt more than you do. That'll definitely increase your time in the field, like it or not! And what's not to like?! (Oh yeah, packing her game...)

8. Man up and just tell her the way it is,,,like I do >>>>>>BAM<<<<<<<<

 

Treat your hunting like a job.............

"Daddy's off to work again, gotta put food on the table".

Sometimes you have to look a little beat down when you get home, you don't want them to think you were just out having fun.

 

I got rid of the first one that used to nag and found one that doesn't care when I go or how long!!!! Maybe I should worry?????Walt

 

I guess that I am lucky in this area as my wife doesn't care what I buy for hunting or how much I spend out in the woods hunting. Heck, she refers to our land is my Big Boy Playground. She does enjoy taking rides in the evening glassing for deer.

 

My standard line is "Woman, I'm going hunting and I don't know when I'm coming back. But when I do get home I expect my dinner waiting on me."


My wife just laughs at me, while I'm heating up a TV dinner that evening.

 

Let them have an equal amount of "me" time.

 

If you are a master in the bedroom like me you wouldn't have to worry about asking for time to hunt

 

We'll find out soon enough. I'm a married man come this saturday.

 

You could always try Jeff Foxworthy's excuses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJa8kxPfPoU

 

States Mr. Semi-Hard

Guys this is not rocket science, LOL

Make sure to have date night year around, one night a week with your wife will not kill you.
In the off season plan and make sure she has "her" time.

When you have kids get them invloved, take them hunting.

Most important, tell your wife you love her every night.

 

Congrats!!!


Let me add buying them gifts will not work, they married you to spend time with you.

 

Dang it Germ, stop being a thread downer!


Another one: Clean her car several times during the season, inside and out.

 

I find that offering to drag her deer our of the woods usually works... and gut it... and butcher it....

 

my wife is a travel agent for guilt trips.....