MTPockets1
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jetboater454 wrote:Duct tape. 
This now comes in many colors - Let her point to her favorite.
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BarbaraOK
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jetboater454 wrote:Duct tape.
Not funny.
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MiPa.Jackson
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Sorry,Babs, but Duck Tape was verry funny!
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CincyGus
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We start our adventure going full time at the end of April. We have a tentative route that we started to lay out. But it seems my wife just feels like we need to get somewhere! We have no scheduled or timed stops. But she's started to say things like. Well... We really don't need to go there. I figure, why not? I mean this is what it's all about! How can I get her to relax a little and just go with the flow?
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Joe
Some great advice above but I'm going to ask, why haven't you asked her how she wants to take this new step in your life's? You say " it seems" she feels a certain way but does she really or is that your guess? She's saying things like "We really don't need to go there" but you figure why not instead of asking her why not.
Some of the advice above might work and might not but until you really talk to her honestly and she to you so you can find out how she would like to do it, what her concerns are, whats going to make it fun for her, what parts sound exciting or fun for her to be involved in and what parts she is dreading, your just shooting arrows in the sky and hoping one of them hits something.
Lack of open and frank communication is the issue here. Doesn't sound like you have a great understanding of what she wants/needs to feel comfortable about this adventure. That may be because your not asking the right questions or she's not being open and honest with answers because she doesn't want to upset you. If it's going to be a fun and exciting journey for you both, you better get to the bottom of it.
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BarbaraOK
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MiPa.Jackson wrote:Sorry,Babs, but Duck Tape was verry funny!
It's Barb, you can knock off the patronizing comments any time. The thought that one would condone "shutting up" a person using duct tape is reprehensible. 
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Remember RV'ing is like Cat Fishing.
Some want nothing to do with it. Others are OK to listen to others talk about it. Others are willing to watch it. Others will help others do it. Others are OK with the fishing but do not like cleaning the catch. Others are willing to prepare and cook. There many others who will eat it after it is caught, dressed and cooked.
One or both seem to have trouble talking and or listening in your case.
The RV need to be sold if one or the other wants to force the other to do something they do not want to do.
For me I see the MH as wheels to go to cool places without planning. If one gave me a $1,000,000 MH and a CC without limits to buy fuel, food when living in it and all related expenses that come with MH ownership at this point in time I would pass on the offer. I personally like to be planted like a tree by the water at this point in time.
With that being said I have some gypsy in me and the 31 days we were out last fall on the cross country to the Pacific when very fast and I enjoyed every day.
Keep in mind RV'ing is for only a few and even fewer for FT'ing.
The unknown is not everyone's cup of tea.
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Wills250psd
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YEP, VERY FUNNY.
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jaykimnoregrets
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jetboater454 wrote:Duct tape.
Careful now!
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DianneOK
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Moderator note....that's enough, CHILDREN!!!!!!!
Keep it up and I will POOF you all 
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Trap
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This post has made for some interesting reading, my DW and I we're talking about this the other day, as we plan to go fulltime in another 20 months. We we're wondering how long it would take to get away from the holiday and destination type of thinking that we;re used to.
It was interesting to discuss what it would be like to not drive more than 2-300 miles max in a day, not care what time we arrived and to just stop at a rest area to have lunch and who knows maybe even a nap.
Who knows as others have said, just have to give her some time to come around. I think it will take some time for us to change our thinking and not plan ahead very far.
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