How did you convert the wife

[Fish<><]

So since I started hammocking over a year ago, my wife, who loves me to death, swore against them day after day of listening to me try and talk about them to her. She would never listen (more than a few seconds) and worst of all she sometimes said things like ''Are we REALLY gonna talk about those darned hammocks again?!''

UNTIL TODAY.....

We recently rearranged our bedrooms in our ''little place we call home''. I am now in my sons bedroom (15 month old who sleeps in the bed with my wife). all that is in the room is my sons crib, and my TD stand with my hammock hung up. So, she put my son down in his crib for a nap today, and decided she would relax in my hammock. This is something she has never ever done before.

I had to beg her to get in my new BIAS hammock when I did the first hang on it just a few weeks ago. She always thought she would get motion sickness if she tried to sleep in it.

Long story short, she fell asleep (I'm guessing dang near instantly) and had a wonderful nap till the phone rang. When she admitted this to me this afternoon she added on that it is going to become one of her favorite things to do.

The only thing that really sucks is that i just forked over about $50 for a t**t so I could get her to go camping with me in the near future...I might be selling it soon (any takers??)

I think this could be the start of a wonderful relationship between a man's hammock and a lady.

[J.Andersons]

Great and interesting story and congrats on new convert.

[Fish<><]

Well she's not a total convert, but we're getting closer...

[Cali]

Congrats, now make sure you help her with everything when you go on a hang. Make it enjoyable and she will continue to hang with you.

[old4hats]

Ah, good things happen to people who hammock.

[Fish<><]

Congrats, now make sure you help her with everything when you go on a hang. Make it enjoyable and she will continue to hang with you.

I will definitely do my best baja, as I do with anything around her, not to worry.

Old4hats I want to use that line in my signature, it's a goody.

[FLRider]

Heh. Haven't managed to convert her, and I don't think I will. She feels claustrophobic in the hammock, so...

I love her, but I think that backcountry hiking and camping is going to continue to be a "FLRider & Friends" activity rather than a "FLRider & Mrs. FLRider" one. Sad, but we have enough other things that we enjoy together.

And, besides, this means that we have at least a couple of weekends apart during the year; that can be just as, if not more, important as spending weekends together. Sometimes, folks just have to be alone, even from those that they love, to get their heads straight.

[Fish<><]

Well too bad your wife gets claustrophobic in a hammock, but you are right, it is important to spend time together. Absence makes the heart grow fonder...

[timabababaluka]

I haven't.

The Missus considers hammocks frivolous and thought this was just a phase I was going through. Two years later she has come to the realization that this is no phase, but still considers them frivolous.

I have a long-term plan: part of her love of tents is that she has all the young'uns corralled and safe--I get this... we have some adventurous-but-foolish little ones that would walk away from a campsite and never find their way back. However, as they get old enough to know better, they get hammocks. My two cub scouts already have theirs, their two sisters will receive hammocks for their birthdays, which leaves two younger brothers who don't have enough common sense to be trusted to sleep without walls. Little baby sister hasn't arrived yet (although, for a time, it looked like it might occur yesterday (a baby on Labor Day--how cool would that have been?), so it will be at least another 5 or 6 years for the plan to fully take effect.

EVENTUALLY there will be nobody in that tent with the Missus, and then she'll poke her head out of that stuffy nylon hole, feel the breeze and the sunlight on her face, and find a hammock right next to her family all hung up and waiting for her.

I am the quintessential 'bigger man,' so I won't say, "I told you so"... but it will definitely be implied.

[Timberrr]

I don't believe I'm reading myself write this but don't sell the tent. Three reasons:
1. You'll have some gear to intice your ground dweller friends to go camping with you. Then they'll see your hammock and say, "Hey, whadda you got there? You're gonna sleep in that?!"
2. Mrs. Fish will have some private space to nurse or change or whatever so she'll be happier. "When momma's happy, everyone's happy..."
3. You'll have a clean place to drop your gear and all of Fish, Jr's gear so you'll be happy too.