Does your family support your running? (Read 1715 times)

For some reason, my wife cannot stand my running. I cannot figure out why. She is not very active, and I do most of my runs early while she likes to sleep in. It's frustrating, but what van you do? My idea of an great vacation is going to somewhere like Hawaii and running, her idea is going there and laying on a beach.

This thread has caused me to realize that my wife is extremely supportive of my running. Wow, I am lucky. She really is a good kid--I think I'll keep her.

dupe - sorry!

My hubby has been through all my running over 25 years and I asked to run the Great Wall of China Half for our 25th! A Big YES and the poor guy has to get a Spectator shirt,hang out for hours while I climb, run and walk this thing. He has always been good. Taking the kids when they were young and saying BE SAfe, every time I go out for a run. He doesn't grab me, but not a day goes by(even when he travels)that he doesn't say hi beautiful, gorgeous, sexy I guess the bottom line is we both have our own things and we support and respect each other, but rememberto meet in the middle once in a while. Ok, I bragged, but couldn't resist. Kathy

My husband is very supportive, however now that I've started being out for nearly an hour he seems to "notice" more often that I'm gone. I think sometimes he feels a bit left out, not because of the time that I spend away from him, which isn't much at this point, but because he sees that I'm having fun and getting stronger and healthier all on my own. It's a bit disconcerting for him, I suppose, but he intuitively recognizes the dude code . He even said "I gotta start doing something too, if you're going to be running looking all gorgeous". We have two boys who can be very demanding and we share the work and still try to have individual time so that neither of us resents the other. I'd like to run more days so I'm trying to juggle a few things so I get support in the order of at least 85% .

I'm sorry you have to deal with this again Michelle. THere is nothing more draining than constant negativity. I LOL at Jakes advice from page one. Fortunately, Mike is the one who inspired me to start running almost 18 years ago when we first met. His job is such that he HAS to stay in good shape and is given time during his workday to workout. It took us a while and a few hard years when I was popping out babies (4), nursing, and sleep deprived but I've come out the other side more determined than ever. I run in the morning, he occasionally runs or bikes to work and swims after work. It does make for a long day but we are both happy just to have our individual workout times. It does make us happier...and happier for each other since we know how important it is. I used to resent the time he spent away working out, I will admit that. Only because I was jealous of his energy, drive and freedom to stay constant. I was never *that* serious mostly because I was too tired. It was irritating to see him be able to have so much *fun* and I was in a place I felt stuck. I wonder...your dh works long hard hours...maybe he's *stuck* and wishes he had the extra time and energy to have *fun*? I remember a time when I was really negative and hard on dh about working out and now I cringe because he's been nothing but supportive to me. I guess I have no advice...I sorta understand but don't really know what you can do. Maybe Mike will respond to this thread and tell you how he lived through it.

It's means he's pretty damn ugly.

I was wondering that too. Thanks for the answer. Jilly

Wow, I am not so sure we are not married to separated identical twins.

Triplets!