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I'm Engaged....will i ever bowhunt again?
03-06-2007, 10:08 PM
#41
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Illinois
Posts: 978
RE: I'm Engaged....will i ever bowhunt again?
You should be ok for awhile.....until the babies start popping out.
Honey, I'm going hunting, should be back in a few hours....Ya right
You'll hunt, maybe not as much as if you were single....just get out when you can!
goodluck
crutch
Honey, I'm going hunting, should be back in a few hours....Ya right
You'll hunt, maybe not as much as if you were single....just get out when you can!
goodluck
crutch
03-06-2007, 10:14 PM
#42
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: cazenovia, NY USA
Posts: 2,973
RE: I'm Engaged....will i ever bowhunt again?
Your priorties will change - for you and your wife.
Hopefully for you, there will come a day when your wife and family will be GLAD its bow season - and encourage you to get out and enjoy.
I've been lucky enough to see this happen - and BONUS - I often bring my son along to boot. Now its a NEW found love of the outdoors.
You'll see..............
Congrats!
FH
Hopefully for you, there will come a day when your wife and family will be GLAD its bow season - and encourage you to get out and enjoy.
I've been lucky enough to see this happen - and BONUS - I often bring my son along to boot. Now its a NEW found love of the outdoors.
You'll see..............
Congrats!
FH
03-06-2007, 10:55 PM
#43
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NORTHWEST PA
Posts: 717
RE: I'm Engaged....will i ever bowhunt again?
GET OUT NOW WHILE YOU STILL HAVE YOUR WALLET / MONEY CLIP!!!!!!!!!
ONCE THINGS SETTLE DOWN IT SHOULD GO BACK TO NORMAL WELL ALMOST, MAYBE NOT AS MUCH AS A SINGLE GUY BUT CLOSE. LIKE OTHERS HAVE SAID THROW HER A FEW BONES (DIAMONDS WORK REAL WELL)
GOOD LUCK
ONCE THINGS SETTLE DOWN IT SHOULD GO BACK TO NORMAL WELL ALMOST, MAYBE NOT AS MUCH AS A SINGLE GUY BUT CLOSE. LIKE OTHERS HAVE SAID THROW HER A FEW BONES (DIAMONDS WORK REAL WELL)
GOOD LUCK
03-07-2007, 05:52 AM
#44
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: SW PA USA
Posts: 7,220
RE: I'm Engaged....will i ever bowhunt again?
Establish the rules now .... RIGHT NOW !!!! that you are a hunter and that part of your life isNOT going to change. Remind her early and often!
Be fair about it. remind her early and often! If the two of you can sit down and absolutely promise with all your hearts that you wont try to change each other then maybe it'll be OK. Oh yeah, remind her early and often! Dont let her even start to minimize whats important to you but dont do it to her either. Make sure you start telling her when important hunting dates are coming up months in advance and make it clear that you'll be occupied those days. Did I mentionabout doing it early and often?
I'm very lucky, we dont try to step on each others interests and it works well. After 30 years, I guess I could say it's probably going to work. But I still have to remind her early and often that hunting season is coming up!
Be fair about it. remind her early and often! If the two of you can sit down and absolutely promise with all your hearts that you wont try to change each other then maybe it'll be OK. Oh yeah, remind her early and often! Dont let her even start to minimize whats important to you but dont do it to her either. Make sure you start telling her when important hunting dates are coming up months in advance and make it clear that you'll be occupied those days. Did I mentionabout doing it early and often?
I'm very lucky, we dont try to step on each others interests and it works well. After 30 years, I guess I could say it's probably going to work. But I still have to remind her early and often that hunting season is coming up!
03-07-2007, 06:52 AM
#45
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Posts: 21,043
RE: I'm Engaged....will i ever bowhunt again?
After reading a lot of replies.....I was happy to read these two...
I've been blessed with the love of the best woman in the world. I also tell her how lucky I am, every day.I never leave her wondering where she and our son stands in my life. She knows how important my time afield is.....and she has NEVER taken advantage of me during hunting season. When we have commitments, though (hunting season or not)....I honor her wishes. She encourages me to hunt (heck,....she loves venison!). She takes an interest in my hunting stories......and she knows what a big part of my life hunting is. If she took advantage of this........I wouldn't feel the same way I do about her.....and she knows I wouldn't be the same man I am. We ARE lucky.
I feel bad for all you poor saps. I've been married for 7 years and I hunt more now that I ever did. I do a lot of what she wants in the off season and she gives me hunting season to do what ever I want. Hell, this year I'll be hunting 3 Canadian provinces.
Heres the way i feel about this situation, if you have to change who you are to get married its not worth it.
03-07-2007, 06:59 AM
#46
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Rural Kansas... Where Life is Good
Posts: 4,139
RE: I'm Engaged....will i ever bowhunt again?
After I got engaged, things were busy with the wedding as well. It's to be expected! But after you're married, I've noticed that I have more time to hunt that even before. I don't have to toss up "Going out and looking for a date OR GoHunting".Before marraige it was sometimes a hard choice, but now it's justhunting. It was deffinately good for me.
03-07-2007, 07:15 AM
#48
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: The SHWA!
Posts: 142
RE: I'm Engaged....will i ever bowhunt again?
Still going strong... She loves to get out and fish, and nature walk. I show her the sign, and she gets interested in tracks and seeing birds, deer, the smells of wet trees.... you know... BUT! Is there anyone that knows of a girls compoud for sale? She wants to come and join me turkey hunting one morning. That should be fun.
03-07-2007, 07:33 AM
#49
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Nineveh, Indiana
Posts: 161
RE: I'm Engaged....will i ever bowhunt again?
I had the pleasure of introducing my wife to the great outdoors after we were married. She grew up in the city and her family never did any sort of outdoor activities. She now loves to camp and fish. She can't wait for it to warm up a little and melt the ice so we can go crappie fishing. She has even went along with me on some hunts. She was with me two years ago when I shot a turkey and I was loving every minute of it. We now have a 1 year old son and things cahnge a little more after kids come along. She was in her last trimester during the whole deer season, so needless to say I did not hunt near as much as I would have liked, but I knew I had to be there by her side during this time. Now I am excited because the three of us are planning on going shed hunting and fishing is just around the corner. I would not have it any other way.
03-07-2007, 07:56 AM
#50
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: The SHWA!
Posts: 142
RE: I'm Engaged....will i ever bowhunt again?
THATS what i like to hear.... great expectations... this whole getting married thing is great. I have an amazing girl. She loves the outdoors since she met me. She was always a city sort of girl, and spent some timeat her grandparent cottage. I think its going to be an up hill battle. FOR THE BETTER.... peace out!