My wife has never complained about my outdoor activities.when she was younger and could get around better she used to coonhunt and deer hunt with me.but if there were family events such as the kids in sports that would take priority over hunting.you have to have common sense and common ground in a marriage .there were years I hunted on new years eve night and even hunted a few times on Xmas night after there were done with the family get together and the kids were in bed.

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Was really enjoying the thought about bachelor life until I met my now fiancé. I told her after a while there wouldn't be a ring until I know she survived a hunting season with me. September 1st to the beginning of November (hunting slows down when I start coaching basketball) is when she can expect me being in the field, marsh, pond, etc.

She gets this is the only time of the year and I can't move hunting season to a more convenient time for her/me.

She has since pushed me further into the outdoors saying I should start filming hunts and posting hunts. She has spent more time with me in the early mornings.

Maybe it's us being more mature (her 33/me 28), but we understand what's very important for both of us, and we respect that about each other.

When my wife and I got together she knew my pursuits. Her dad was basically like me.

The only thing she had to get used to was I was into archery and her dad wasn't.

She has planned stuff during hunting season that I just don't show up for. She's usually not happy with me, but she gets over it pretty quick.

My wife is big for putting things on a calendar and not telling me about them. I usually tell her when I have something to do.

My wife drives very little anymore so I try to be around when she needs to go somewhere.

As for asking permission neither of us do that unless it's for something big. Generally it's just coordinating schedules.

Angela summed up a good working relationship.

She's right, the ladies do tend to keep a better calender while we menfolk tend to be more focused one day at a time. Look a squirrel, lol.

One year I wrote "TRAPPING" on the calendar every day the season was open. She wasn't amused. But, I trapped almost every day that year, except when I was sick.

What hacks my missus off is how she keeps her calender and from time to time lays it all out for me in some long winded conversation just to have me come along a day or two later and ask for a confirmation on a specific date. Says I don't listen or something, lol.
I just need a confirmation that nothings changed.

I’m very fortunate to have a wife who loves to hunt, fish and trap with me. I’ve never had to ask permission to pursue my hobbies nor would I expect her to ask my permission to pursue her interests. Eric

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simp.lol.

My buddy went on a fishing trip once with his old boat. He had been saving for a new boat and had his cash in his sock drawer or whatever. When he got back from fishing his gf had bought all new furniture and his cash was missing out of his sock drawer. He called her parents and told them to get ready b/c her and all her stuff would be there in about an hour. lol.

Just sounds like they have different priorities then you do, it’s not all that uncommon, you make allowances for those you love just as they do for you, or that’s the way it’s supposed to work anyways sadly there are way to many that have been brought up believing that what they believe in is the only right and proper thing and it’s up to them to put you on the proper path

To me being whipped means your letting your wife/husband or significant other
Run your life and dictate what you can and can’t do, such as you can’t own a gun anymore, can’t hunt/fish/trap or watch sports ect. Or you have to change your views on what you support and stand for to me that being whipped

My family has always known where I stand and what I support and after all these years they know I am unlikely to change my mind, but I don’t mind a good argument and they know their free to try and change my mind and a few time they have managed to do so but not often, they also know I will support their right to believe what they want even if I don’t believe as they do

They also know they will get an argument if they bring it up and try to change my mind

this is a male brain female brain thing.

All I need is the information. My wife will talk in circles for the equivalent of 5 pages. All I need is the equivalent of 2 or 3 sentences out of that. I have to try to sift through all the useless info and pick out the little that's needed.
i also have a very short attention span and have had the ADHD lable since I was a kid..

I only need the info that's relevant not the circular story. She used to get mad when I would ask for the condensed version. Now it's a deep breath brain resets and I get a much shorter version. still more than needed but considerably shorter.

Don't get mad smash men and women are different it's OK to to talk and point those things out. Understanding the difrences and how to address them best on both sides make for those 65 year marriages instead of the working on my 5th x wife.

Full disclosure this mis my 20th year married and we dated for 8 years before that. My daughter was 2 and our flower girl in our wedding. so working on geting to the 50 year anniversary and 60 after that I'd I live long enough.

Keith is right. A man has to be a man and lead, set boundaries, & not put up with the crap test women try and check that quickly. otherwise She will see the man as weak and quickly loose respect for him. typically that lead to cheating and divorce in today's 20 to 40 year old age bracket. ladies want a strong man as a provider and protector regardless of WHaT the feminist try to claim. it's how they are made. Now that's not a tyrant being a man is not being a tyrant. A tyrant is actually a very weak male. A Man knows how to be strong and when to be soft, understanding and admit and apologize when he is wrong.

Feminist will end up alone child less and miserable with their cats. They buy the lie of not needing or wanting a man and it's to late by the time they figure it out. That Biological clock doesn't stop.

He handled that like a man should. No way that was going to work out no reason to wast any more time on her and move on.

You can't let a woman put you in a box .

Actually,......ah, never mind.

My buddy says Happy Life you have no wife.

I think what some of you are perceiving as “Asking permission” is really more a husband who is not self absorbed and actually considerate of his wife Not saying in all cases. I realize their are selfish and controlling wives out there. I’m just saying not every time a husband consults with his wife about some means he is asking permission.
Sometimes after the consulting with his marriage partner he decides it is not a good time to go. That’s called being
Selfless instead of selfish.

I’ll go ahead and say it so y’all won’t have to type it out “That’s just something whipped men say”. LOL

Some men pay good money to be whipped by women, ain’t my thing but heard plenty of stories….