My Wife Doesn't Understand Me

[offthepaper]

They can be an investment

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There are few things that hold their value as well as guns. I gave my $88.88 Ruger .44 carbine to my nephew's youngest son. Older brother got my $158 BAR. I'm guessing I could have gotten a bit more on the open market.

Try THAT with shoes or purses
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That was always my answer to my Ex. Lord knows she loved the thought of that. Just gotta be careful not to make the finacial picture too enhanced for her benefit, just in case she goes from wife to Ex and wants her half of a very overvalued (overvalued by yourself in your B.S. to her) collection that has now become "divided community property". It's a good reason to purchase FA, and a good response to the wife's concerns. Just gotta keep it real.

 

[Tequila_Sauer]

My girlfriend says things like that? The two I hear most frequently about? Tequila and guns, of course.

She wouldn't dear ask the question standing near her shoe closet though, the hypocrisy would be so thick, it could have suffocating effects.

BTW, where do you live in Boca? I, too, live in Boca Raton.

 

[RaetherEnt]

My biggest worry is that...Someday when I do die, my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them.

 

[Kodiaz]

My mother pulled the old "why do you need that" thing on me. I told her I live in a free state well she didn't understand that at all(My parents live in NJ). Wayne what range do you go to?

 

[Pilot]

Wife: "Is that a new gun?"

Me: What? Huh? Oh this? I got this a long time ago, remember?

Wife: "Yeah right"

Can't fool her, but I DO get and pay the bills from Ann Taylor, Talbots and Nordstroms. Guns are cheap!

 

[hso]

There are few things that hold their value as well as guns. ...

Y'know we may have a winner there! We can ALWAYS sell our guns and get as much as we put in them or more. Clothes, shoes, purses bring pennies on the dollar. Even jewelery doesn't return on it's invenstment as well as firearms. IF you have the income to purchase a firearm after you've paid the bills, contributed to savings, added to the investement/college/retirement fund and paid into the entertainment fund for the month then and only then should you purchase a firearm that you don't need to put food on the table or defend the ranch. But, when you do you know you can get your money back if need be.

My wife doesn't spend money of clothes, shoes, purses, etc. She buys jewelery, but it's made custom for her and she get's it at a good price. She buys art crystal and porcelin, but it comes out of her pocket not mine. She has her own guns and has never asked "What do you need with all those guns?".

 

[Standing Wolf]

Having been divorced since 1980, I don't hear too much "Why do you need another gun?" baloney; unfortunately, I'm starting to hear some "Why are you keeping all these guns you never shoot?" baloney from myself.

 

[JohnKSa]

When I pointed out some of the other things that she didn't understand (quantum physics,bicycle repair,etc.) she got mad at me.I don't understand why.

Using logic on your wife during an argument is only an effective tactic if your goal is to have less sex.

This is one of "John's Rules for Relationships".

 

[KriegHund]

"Why do you need 12 pairs of shoes, pants, sweaters, and 5 purses?"

Im, becoming more and more convinced that there are lots of hippocritical wives out there that love to spend your money but only let you buy one gun a year

How (better yet, WHY?) do you put up with it? And yes, i quite aware that there are many happy marriages out there too.

 

[Jkwas]

I too live in the mouth of the rat. Wayne, which do you have more of, guns or bicycles? Where do you shoot? Does your wife shoot? That's a good place to start.

 

[miconoakisland]

Tools

I just explain that every gun is a tool and every tool has a specific purpose.

This is why I have more than 1 screwdriver and many sockets.

It gets frustrating to start a project and have to run out to the hardware store to get a specific tool. I prefer to be as prepared as I can.

I introduce many people to firearms and like them to try as many different types as possible.

Also, I buy cleaning brushes in multiple brush calibers and don't have a particular barrel to fit it. There's no sense in buying a brush for a particular caliber if I don't have that caliber gun,
so I remedy that by buying that caliber gun!

Start complaining when there's no food, bills aren't getting paid or if vacations aren't taken.

Also, my rarely used guns aren't going to Goodwill if they go out of style like the bags of clothes every year!

 

[Hemicuda]

JohnSKa...

"Using logic on your wife during an argument is only an effective tactic if your goal is to have less sex.

This is one of "John's Rules for Relationships"."

truer words have never been spoken...


as for my GF, she won't spend ANY money on herself... and doesn't complain about my guns at all... maybe she's a keeper, eh? (she even complains if i spend money on her, unless i have good reason to...)

 

[mustanger98]

In my case, I'm 31 and single and living at home. Mom doesn't tell me not to buy another gun. She's not interested, but it's one of my hobbies and shooting gun and deer hunting both get me out of the house (as does my horse). Thing is, if my Daddy and I are at the shootin' range, whether or not there's a match, if Mom doesn't go she'll sometimes visit her parents. And my grandmother will tell her the shoots "take too long" and/or we're "wasting money over there". And my grandmother won't say it to my face; she just wants Mom to get worked up and throw a fit at us , which she hasn't done. My grandmother is the same way if I go hang around a horse show or rodeo, FWIW.

I recall I went around and around with my grandmother a few times over guns... once was when I was waiting on my CMP M1 Garand. My grandmother couldn't understand why since I already had a gun, "why did I need another one?" since "we all know they're all alike". (yeah, right. BTW, my grandfather is a WW2 vet who used the Garand overseas.) But not only does my grandmother not understand having a gun or more than one gun, she also does not understand the 2nd Amendment (she don't beleive in arming oneself prior to a problem, go figure), which was the subject of one arguement we had back during the Y2K Presidential campaign. I wouldn't vote for Al Gore or John Kerry either one. She's a lifelong Democrat who thinks the Dems are for the poor folks while the Republicans are for the rich. She don't understand the Dems are moslty commies now and won't accept what I've tried to tell her about how things have swapped ends a time or two since she started voting about 65 years ago. She also doesn't understand the legalities of gun ownership and gets all her info from the local 6o'clock news.

Needless to say, while being myself at all times, I have no wish to discuss politics or guns with my grandmother. I don't discuss with her how many pair of western riding boots or Stetson hats I own either.

Now, since I don't make it a big secret about being a gun guy and a deer hunter, I don't expect to wind up married to someone who can't stand those things.

 

[Rockrivr1]

My wife is a jewelry whore! Her favorite past time is watching QVC and HSN when they show jewelry. She KNOWS better then to make a stupid comment like that. My only saving grace is that she hates being in debt so she doesn't go overboard with the purchases. Good thing, because that leaves me with more money to buy guns.

 

[asknight]

I dunno if it's been said already, as I just skimmed the thread but...

The day she "understands" you will be the same day that you have become no longer interesting to her. Then she'll move on to someone else. It's only human.

...Don't let her learn how to understand you.

 

[Waitone]

The weak spot is the kitchen.

"Why do you need so many guns?"
"Why do you need so many pots?"

"Why are you buying another gun?"
"Why are you buying another skillet?"

"Why do you put expensive wood on a gun?"
"Why do you have expensive china?"

"Why can't you be satisfied with one caliber of gun?"
"Why can't you be satisfied with one size spoon?"

You will never run out of counter arguments in the kitchen. Then again the payback may be unacceptable. Choose the hill upon which you are willing to die very carefully.

 

[dmftoy1]

We tend to do the "trade off thing". Last year she bought a very nice hot tub so I figure I'm good to go for the next couple of years . . . . .

 

[clasiter]

number

My wife wants to buy me a WWII issued 1911. She loves look, thinks I would like it to go with my M1 Garand. How can I stop her? She won't stop doing nice things for me.

Can I get your phone number, and oh yeah the times when your at work.....Of course i'm kidding.lol she sounds great

 

[paul45]

1) women are ruled by hormones. 2) women are ruled by emotion. 3) women do not want the man they are with to have an activity the man enjoys. 4) women act as though only they have the final answer/ and try to control everything through various insane tactics. 5) women are usually unhappy with themselves and their lot in life and blame the man for their unhappiness.6) women go through life with a chip on their shoulder, again blaming others for their unbalanced thinking.

 

[Pilot]

as for my GF, she won't spend ANY money on herself... and doesn't complain about my guns at all... maybe she's a keeper, eh? (she even complains if i spend money on her, unless i have good reason to...)

Wait till you marry her.

 

[Hemicuda]

well, i have known my gf for 14 years... and you had better bet i am working on getting her to marry me, for she makes me VERY happy...

and if marrying her makes her let me do things to make her happy, and adding to my firearms collection falls back a little, the GOOD...

she makes me so happy, just being there, that if i NEVER got another new (to me) gun, but i got to go to sleep and wake up seeing that face, it'd be worth it...

 

[Gunsnrovers]

My biggest worry is that...Someday when I do die, my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them.

RaetherEnt, my wife asked if I can use that as my signature.

Between that line and the 1st/inital post, this thread made my weekend.

 

[Hot brass]

My wife told me I had enough guns too. I told her to go to her closet and get twenty pairs of shoes out and sell them. Come back with the money and we could go to the gun store and sell one of my guns to see whos items held the most value. She turned, huffed and walked away.

 

[Remington788]

There are few things that hold their value as well as guns. ...

I've tried this and the response I get is "yea, but you'll never sell any of them so what's the point"

I can't argue with that.

 

[Texfire]

My biggest worry is that...Someday when I do die, my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them.

Man that hits close to home. I too have played that game with guns and computer stuff.

"Oh I only paid (absurdly low but almost believable amount) for that."

Tex