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Camping is a great activity- especially with your loved ones! There’s nothing better than heading out to Mother Nature, gettin’ dirty, and exploring a little bit. Sometimes fuses can get cut short and trips don’t turn out the way we want them to- so the last thing you want is to argue or have a disagreement! Here are 6 tips to camping with your partner:
- Have set duties– Maybe both of you share the responsibilities for setting up the tent or one of you cooks and the other one gathers firewood. Either way- you know your role, what’s expected of you, and you’re pitching in (just like at home, right? 🙂 )
- Be courteous– This is a vacation and you want to relax but sometimes it can be stressful! Just remember, this is for both of you to get away and have fun- just be extra nice to each other!
- Take a nature walk– Nothing like a romantic stroll into the wild- am I right? If you’re camping with friends or family, spend some time alone and enjoy the outdoors just the two of you!
- Compromise– This isn’t about one person or the other- its about both! So if one of wants to go beach camping and the other wants to go camping in the mountains- try compromising! Let one person pick the location and the other pick the food!
- Be Thrifty– Camping is sleeping outside…. you can camp for next to nothing. If you don’t have gear, don’t go blow your money on a new set up- borrow gear or improvise! If you have a tent but no sleeping bag, grab some blankets. Don’t go for the filet mignon at dinner time- try a good ol’ hot dog on the fire! Most couples fight about money anyway- keep it cheap and everyone is happy!
- Don’t Give Up! Let’s say the first camping trip wasn’t the best, talk about what you enjoyed and what you didn’t and make a commitment to try it again- I PROMISE you- its really fun 🙂
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My tip would be Have a Campfire! You can undo a lot of ill will or bad times with a toasty blaze.
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Nice tips clearly spoken from someone with a lot of experience and knows what works. BTW your partner has one great beard 😉
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One chooses the location the other gets to choose the food? That’s not much of a compromise. I want to go to Afghanistan but you can choose the food…lets go!
I think in reality number 6 should go like this.
6. Compromise: Your woman is always right. Your life will be a living hell otherwise. Certain tactics will be enforced by your woman to get her own way. Restriction will be placed on you and a constant high pitch white noise will ensue for many days that you will think you have tinnitus. It will be against all that is right and true in this World but for the love of God you must always agree with your woman. She will choose location, food, clothes to take and give out the duties. Just agree and everything should go well.
Actually, it almost reads like a disclaimer. Anyway, I liked the article as always.
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The woman is always right- best compromise I’ve ever heard! 🙂
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Charles Cooper learns quickly 🙂
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These days the only tip to going camping with my partner is to book a hotel. We camped a lot in the past but she’s all camped out.
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Excellent advise for camping, also for life.
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Great tips, especially #6! The hubby and I just got back from 3 nights camping in Vermont and commented that we finally didn’t have 1 fight the whole trip! It only took about 10 camping tries- but it takes time to know what to expect and how to react. It’s still always fun tho, with or without fights (;
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Wear a lot of sunscreen and bug spray – nothing makes you crabbier at each other than being burnt and itchy 😉
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Another good tip is if you’re trying to have a conversation with your sweetie and she keeps falling asleep, you can say “Did you hear that? I think it’s a bear.” Then she’ll be awake and you can talk about whatever is on your mind.
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Great list. My partner isnt as enthusiastic about camping as I am, so I try to be extra nice because I dragged her into it 🙂
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Sometimes it’s worth it to spend a little money if it reduces your stress level. When my kids wanted to go camping last summer, I asked my husband if we could rent a motorhome. It saved us from having to invest in a bunch of cooking and food storage equipment and made meal planning and preparation much simpler for me. In the end, it cost about as much as staying at a hotel, and we all had plenty of time to hike and play in the woods,
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I grew up camping and have been camping my whole life. I am in my 40’s (yes I do admit it) and I am still camping with a tent! I have taught my 3 children to camp and I feel its very important that camping is not a huge ordeal… I am the one in the relationship that is usually begging to get outdoors every year. But we live in Alaska and so our camping is during our short 3 month summer. I would camp the entire summer if he would let me! haha I loved your article and your blog! Great job! 🙂
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Thanks!
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Thanks for looking at our photos. Your images are awesome too! Thanks for the tips on camping.
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The roles are so important for camping with a partner. Aside from camping with other adults, I learned that giving my nephews and nieces roles, like picking out twigs for kindling for a campfire and chopping veggies for dinner, can go far in their fun-level. When I was a kid, my dad took care of everything, and I remember being bored half the time because I had nothing to do. My nephew, who is 5 now, asks to go camping and says, “I’ll pick out the best fire sticks!”
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Compromise: agreed. My partner photographs for hours on end and I walk along and read books during that time. When the light is no longer optimal for photos we take longer hikes, swim, head to the nearest town, whatever. Win-win. We have vastly different interests but we both get what we want out of the trips.
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I’m reminded of the first time I took my husband camping (when we first started dating) with the group of friends I had. Our little band of amigos had gone camping / adventuring dozens of times and I wanted to introduce Bill to the experience. We crawled into our tent, the three of us: Bill, my son Wesley and I, with me cozy in the middle. It rained during the night and I was comfy and warm and dry being in the middle. Bill, however, had rain dripping on him from a corner of the tent and I couldn’t believe the fuss he was making! We laugh about it now but I remember being surprised at his lack of ‘suck it up’ skills at the time. Easy for me to say though since I wasn’t the one getting wet!
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