If you like fishing and go to the lake to fish every time she should be burned out… maybe its as simple as going somewhere she will enjoy more than you once in a while… and always share the work load…
Its obvious there are not similar likes and dislikes…
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three weeks ago, just our son and myself took a 7 hour drive and went camping for 5 days, we left the wife and daughter at home. We went and did boy stuff, while they did girl stuff, it was a great weekend for both of us. Learn to back your trailer up without a spotter and/or get a camera mounted on the rear and take off...it may do both of you good.
I will offer some advise here.
When we started camping my wife had NEVER camped. She was city girl I was a Army brat, so I grew up camping up and down the east coast. When we got the POPUP, I did everything from getting groceries to setup and maintaining the campsite experience. As we have progressed from PU to used TT, to new TT and now the new 5er. She has become my right hand buddy. She was my buddy before but when it came to camping, she went and I did ALL the work. NOW as we get older she loves it and likes to do the inside while I do outside. I still do all the planning, the grocery shopping, cooking, sewer dumping, etc. I plan ahead & make menu's, she approves or disapproves. If I have something she doesn't want we get what she wants. I still do all the cooking and most of cleaning up on a camping trip, I enjoy it. It's my way of taking care of her after all these years she has taken care of me and our 3 children. Two are gone and one is still home. She is 16 going on 20 and she doesn't really care to go camping much right now, so we leave her at home and her older sister is in charge of her. I understand small kids and camping, been there done that. BUT if she is doing all the mommy things at home, then turns around and has to do it on a mini weekend vacation??Well!
I have gone camping without her(wife) and it's not as much fun. Even when you have a few buddies around, JUST not the same!
Point: this week as we left church we saw 4 harley's parked out front and I said we could use one of those nice electric-glides and I would sell the camper to get it. She was LIKE no way! I enjoy my camper much more than I would enjoy your harley..So as we move into our later years camping is an outlet we both are loving and it gets better each time.
Help your wife more on a camping trip and if you need to go by yourself have at it. Its not that bad backing up into a campsite unless you have a fairly new 5er and still can't get the hang of it. the TT backed in spots I would not even try with the 5er.
JMHO,
randy
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Oh boy - a "fill in" or "substitute" - don't think I would go anywhere near that statement!!!
Camping is a lot of work - for everyone - and with 2 little ones, much more for her... I don't know your situation, so all I can do is guess regarding her reasons...
When I feel like camping, if my DW of 30+ years doesn't want to go, I tell her I'm going to go by myself for a few days and do a little fishing, hiking, etc... She doesn't mind, and that gives her time to do a few things she wants to do by herself... That also means that all the work falls on me and I don't mind that either...
Don't get me wrong, we do a lot together, but we have been in that situation before with the "burn out on camping" so I know the particulars on that...
Maybe the better thing to do would be to get a sitter for the kids for the weekend and take her to a nice stage show and hotel for the weekend - just say'in ...
BTW, after the DW and I went for a nice 4 hour motorcycle ride this morning and early afternoon, I'm taking her out for dinner tonight
Les
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I'm just guessing here, but I bet you are the typical alpha Male and do all the "man" stuff, hooking up ,driving, parking,etc . And She gets stuck in the kitchen and herding the kids. SWAP jobs totally one trip. She drives, you spot and cook and do everything she normally does. IF that don't work out. Gotta ask your self.. Which is more important , that camper or Her?
LAdams wrote: Oh boy - a "fill in" or "substitute" - don't think I would go anywhere near that statement!!!
Camping is a lot of work - for everyone - and with 2 little ones, much more for her... I don't know your situation, so all I can do is guess regarding her reasons...
When I feel like camping, if my DW of 30+ years doesn't want to go, I tell her I'm going to go by myself for a few days and do a little fishing, hiking, etc... She doesn't mind, and that gives her time to do a few things she wants to do by herself... That also means that all the work falls on me and I don't mind that either...
Don't get me wrong, we do a lot together, but we have been in that situation before with the "burn out on camping" so I know the particulars on that...
Maybe the better thing to do would be to get a sitter for the kids for the weekend and take her to a nice stage show and hotel for the weekend - just say'in ...
BTW, after the DW and I went for a nice 4 hour motorcycle ride this morning and early afternoon, I'm taking her out for dinner tonight
Les
You sound like a very considerate spouse!
And it sounds like from the posts by the OP that she goes along with the camping much of the time for his benefit. Forty days of camping in that short period is A LOT of her having to go along because it is 'his thing'. Your suggestion of him sacrificing and not taking out the TT, and doing what she likes - be it getting a sitter and a hotel or whatever it may be is her idea of GREAT fun - is a great one.
Compromise is a beautiful thing. Someone else asked if he asked his wife what she was burnt out on. Another great idea. Nothing like open communication. He might find it isn't even the camping that is the problem. Maybe its having to do so much while camping - things one does at home with little kids is always magnified when you are away from home. He'll never fully know until he asks, and then once he does know, taking some pains to ease her pain points might go a long way with her and she might enjoy camping a bit more.
Another poster said that his city wife wasn't thrilled about camping and he took on more of the work. I did the same thing, only I am the female and my SO was more of a "city boy" so I made sure I did more of the 'yuk work' that he wasn't used to since I was, and I was more of a seasoned camper than him. Now that we have done this a few seasons, he is doing most of the 'yuk work' as he enjoys it! Go figure! I still can't let him do it all, because I rather enjoy some of that work myself. LOL I am sure if I expected him right off the bat to fool with sewage hoses and the like, he probably would have ended up resenting camping, and that wouldn't benefit either of us. But doing it this way, he is now anticipating our camping trips as much or more than me!
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