RE: How do your wives/gf's feel about your addiction?
My wife wasan outdoors kind of gal befor we got married. 36 years later, She is a Fly Fishing Guide, Rasies, trains and sells German Shorthaired Pointer Pups, can outshoot with a Rifle, Pistol, Shotgun or Bow most men I know (won alot of beers over the years from men with Big Egos for me), and fills her deer tags most every year, only thing I do is help her set her stands, she does her own scouting.
Ha..I have a son in law that calls about this time of year when the bow hunting deer bug hits, He spends most of the time talking to her!
So I have never had that problem.