Take your kids hunting with you as much as possible and do what is best for them because that is what is most important.  
Russ

Yes Sir  

One of the main reasons she left me,oh well I must say my hunting is quite important to me!!!

Constantly, and I suddenly lost 140 lbs of useless weight.  Divorced her after 5 of the most miserable years of my life.  

I am now married to the most amazing wife in the world.  She fishes, hunts, loves to camp, etc... just last night she looked me in the eye and said late season is coming, take days off, call in sick, do whatever it takes mister.  There will be elk in my freezer and don't come home without it!

Grapes,when I first started going out with my wife ,she didn't understand what hunting and Trad archery ment to me,she complained.I told her if she complained again she won't see me for 3 days,Yup she complained.The first day went by,she didn't see me.The second day went by,she still didn't see me .Finally on the third day she could just start to open her right eye LOL.
All kidding aside.For many of us on here Trad archery and bowhunting is NOT our hobby,it is our LIFE.When I was 7 years old(50 years ago) and my fathers friend showed me how to shoot a bow,it changed my life forever.It soaked into my blood and devoured my soul.I eat ,breath and sleep Archery 365 days a year.It motivates me obssesses me and governs all I do.My wife doesn't hunt anymore but knows what it means to me.
All year I am either building,tinkering ,experimenting and shooting my bows
In the last while we've had a influx of young people in our town getting involved in archery and I've helped many get set-up.Friends of my wife are asking her about me and she feels proud now to invite them over to see my mini museum and bow collection.
Your wife will mellow with time ,but piont out to her what are great passion means to you.We could be doing a lot worse things with our time.All the best.

posted by bjorn:

Women have complained about our obsessive hunting ever since we clubbed the first one and dragged her back to the cave!
Grapes in a few short years your wife will not complain when you take the boys hunting as often as you wish.
I have even used my son as an excuse for all kinds of new gear that he can't use!........hahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahaaa                you crack me up bjorn

lucky stiff clay....i am gonna lay a wuppin on you at the next 3d shoot you lucky dog you.

My wife never complains, as she knows hunting comes but once a year.  She knows that she if welcome to come along and join me if she wants to, but chooses not to hunt.

We've been married over 28 years now.

In 1968 my neck swelled up and we got married on Nov. 9th. In well over half of the years since, I have be on a hunting trip somewhere on that date, and I have never heard a word about it from her before-during-or after. Hap

more lucky dogs....i need to sell lucky dog t-shirts man.

Yeah mine complains, she complains I don't take her enough! Or about having to go buy meat when the freezer is empty!  I told her about my hunting when we first started dating.  She's never complained once about me going for almost 10 years now.  Just lucky I guess.

Huck

About hunting or fishing, Never! Jason

Does she ever stop..........

Nope, treat her like a queen and she will treat you like a king.

I've heard too many people on the threshhold of divorce say, "I'd do anything to save my marriage", when the truth is that if they would have had that attitude all along they would have never ended up in that situation.

I enjoy hunting, but I LOVE the Lord Jesus Christ, my wife, and our children.  What matters most comes first.

If it seemed like a hunting trip, or season was putting unnecessary strain on my marriage, then the hunt would be put aside for her needs.  The Good Book calls our wives "the weaker vessel" and says that they are to be treated with "honour".  Love is not about getting my needs met, but rather seeking to meet the needs of another regardless of what they say or do to me.      

I had to stop and tell my wife just the other day, "You know, you really are an incredible wife!".......and she is a gem!

I haven't read all the post so I don't know if it's been said like this or not.
 When my wife and I were younger and she did complain every now and then I gave her this comparison. "If you could only shop the same months every year that I hunt, wouldn't you go as much in that time period as you could"?
 It seemed to put things in perspective for her as most women would rather be shopping even if they aren't spending alot of money.
 Then, 3 years ago I was in a terrible car accident and missed all bow season. My wife said that she never would care how much I wanted to hunt ever again.

After forty years, my wife hates everything I do.

That's a pretty good shopping analogy MB...might have to try that.

No my wife does not complain at all, as a matter of fact she knows that during hunting season not to plan anything for me to be involved in and she is OK with that. Also I never say that she cant do anything either so it is a two way street. I tell my friends that in life there are seasons and when you have young kids you need to be flexable and be OK with it, now my youngest is 17 and life is good. The only thing that stops me from hunting is me, a place to hunt and money. Shes a peach.
Fellas it really is not about the hunting I think it is insecurity on their part, if you golfed, bowled, played on a softball team most of the women who complain would still complain.

IMHO

T Folts nailed it with "Fellas it really is not about the hunting I think it is insecurity on their part, if you golfed, bowled, played on a softball team most of the women who complain would still complain."

I'm not sure anyone can tell you how to reassure the one you married as women are like snowflakes in that no two are alike.

God bless,Mudd

FYI, never point the TV remote at them while pushing the mute button, They do not see the humor.

           

Ive tried that a time or two... normally I just get eye color change.... to green....

Never hear a word when plans are made with the kids or grandkids and bows and arrows....

Mike

"I got so mad today listening to it, that I cancelled hunting tonight and tomorrow, and also cancelled a trip I had planned with a good friend this weekend. "

She won, then didn't she? It's all about control. If you stop hunting altogether, it will immediately be about something else. Good luck, but I don't see you being a happy man.