The dreaded “It’s the gun or me” gauntlet...

A very good friend years ago told me there are 3 big things to have in life and rarely does anyone get to have all 3.

I remember he said they were 1) financial success, 2) job satisfaction, 3) oh heck... what was #3 again?
 
Years and years ago, when I was a young man, I had a friend, an engineer, who was building a "HomeBuilt" airplane. These were real airplanes built out of a kit. You added the engine, but pretty much everything else was in the kit. Anyway, my friend had airplane parts and such all over his house - his young wife didn't like that one bit. It was understandable because she was living in an "aircraft hanger" for all practical purposes. Well, one day she told him it was either the airplane or her. He told me he had to think about that for a bit. She came home from work the following day to find he had taken the chainsaw and cut a doorway from the living room into the garage so he could move the wings into the house.
They divorced soon afterward.
It was a nice little airplane btw.

EDIT: Sorry - Just noticed this was an old thread -
 
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If i heard her say its me or the Taurus 605. Without having to think about it, I would pick the Taurus, and I hate everything Taurus.

The woman that picked me would tell me to buy a Smith & Wesson, or at least a Charter Arms.
 
Had a buddy that shot with us on weekends mostly high Power matches. He bought a fully loaded M1A with all the bells and whistles. Every saturday there he was banging away with the rest of us. Then for a few weeks we didn't see him at all. Turns out the missus to be gave him a choice. The guns or me. About a few weeks later his fully loaded M1A was for sale in a local gun shop. Heck my wife knew about the guns way before we even got married. Told her up front and we've been married for 35 Years. Frank
 
If you live with someone that thinks compromise is you giving that person their way not just once but every time you are in trouble.
 
This thread was started in September
of 2011.

I imagine a lot of guns have come and
gone. And a lot of mates have come and
gone.
 
Old thread but still a good topic. ;) I just wonder how I missed it before? :confused:

First off, how in the hell do you get to the point of marrying someone and they NOT know you're a gun nut? Totally boggles my mind. :confused:

My late wife was a farm girl. Guns were never a problem. Ok, maybe I over spent once in a while. But it passed. :rolleyes:

Before we got married I told her that I will do most anything you ask of me, but don't ever tell me what to do. I extended her the same courtesy. She tried a couple of times early on, but soon learned it wasn't going to fly. We had 33 good years together. ;)

Anyway I've been single for quite a while now and as such, I've been on several internet dating sights off and on over the years. Standard procedure is to check the profiles and if you find someone you like, send them a message. Or they send you one if they like you. Then you message back and forth for a while to see if you actually have things in common and want to have a real date. I always make it a point that early on in the conversations that I mention my gun hobby, that I have a handgun permit and that I'm usually armed anytime I leave the house. Usually in the 2nd or 3rd message. Believe it or not, I have yet to find a woman who thought this was a problem. Some aren't concerned by it, some get curious. Many of them like the fact that I carry. In fact, just yesterday I had lunch with a new lady and she had already mentioned that when we meet, she would have a Kimber Compact .45 in her purse! ;)
GOD! I love southern women! :D
 
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I didn't start collecting fire arms until we had been married for some years, I had a shot gun, a deer rifle, and a squirrel gun (22lr). She was raised in a home with guns. So there really was not a discussion about guns. I believe marriage is about compromise, Some times you get what you want and sometimes you don't. Marriage is not a game, not a win lose relationship it's not about keeping score. We married young, both of us in our teens both from dysfunctional families, her parent's were abusive and alcoholic. every weekend in was drinking and physical fights. My mother was mentally ill and abusive to her children. We learned to trust each other we learned to fight fair, and to say I am sorry. we learned to let go of the small stuff, and found out most stuff is small. we are separate people with different likes and dislikes different views.

My wife is at a quilting retreat this weekend, it's something she enjoys and looks forward to all year.. When she left this morning she said thanks for letting me go to the retreat. I said your going because you want to go. I can take care of myself for a couple of days.

we have been married 53 years, It has been mostly good with some challenges and losses I still love as much now as I did when me met.
 
Grateful I've never had to deal with that, "My way or the highway," scenario. Mrs. knows I have guns, and knows there might be more.
 
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