My wife new how much I loved hunting when we got married, I was off 42 days this past deer season and hunted 39. She gets upset but she knows I love it she gripes about the dogs but I'm putting in kennels with drains, auto watering, and gonna rig up some type of auto feeding system to make it easier when I'm gone working. That being said I have no problem cooking or doing laundry ect.. When I'm off work and not hunting. I also make it a habit to take her nice places or send flowers and always have a few days planned somewhere nice around the anniversary with no kids. Any relationship takes WORK on both sides to make it work.
Thats pretty much how i roll, I work 12 hrs a day 7 days a week most of the year, and when i get a day off im hunting.
Yep, she fusses about the dogs, me being gone, all the money i spend on equipment and dogs, but she hasnt worked in 7 yrs, and gets to stay home and take care of the kids, which isnt an easy job, but it aint a factory job either. She dont like it, but she feeds and takes care of my dogs while im gone, helps me pack my gear, makes sure i aint forgeting anything, "cause i always do" cooks and does all the things house wifes do.
Now we dont always see eye to eye, and we are both very stubborn and hard headed which make for week long arguements, cause she wont admit shes wrong and started the whole thing anyway
BUT, she would never, ...........i mean better NEVER put my dogs on any craigs list. Its alot of give and alot of take, and ALOT of forgiving, on my part anyway
But if i would have came home and my best dog had been sold, some of her prized posession would have magically dissapeared too,
But thats just me, You are the one that has to live with the decisions, that you make not anybody els, and when there are children involved, it does make a difference. Good luck
