Wifes says "video of how she feels sometimes"

My parents were married for 55 years. My Dad loved to travel which explains their 'C', and my mom loved new places, but not the ride between them. She wore out her imaginary brake pedal on the passenger side. My Dad was a good driver, stayed in the right lane, and usually 5 MPH below the limit.
She finally started sitting in the dinette facing the rear, knitting, doing crossword puzzles or reading. It worked. They could still talk at a normal level, but she wasn't looking out the front window anymore.

We have been together going on our 20th year. We were fishing buddies long before we started RV'ing full time. Have been at it for 4 and half years.
We still have our moments but wouldn't change for anything else.

I found my comfort zone, When she married someone else.

Bada boom.

:B

We have been married for 51 years with 52 completing in April. Sometimes I need time to fix things and do improvements and sometimes I go fishing with my best friend of 62 years. A couple of times a year she goes off with her best friend of 60 years or her cousins or our youngest daughter (they are all quilters and I'm not so I don't go) and I do my things while she is gone.

This year she was off to quilt camp and I tore down all of the cable companies surface mounted cables and ran them through conduit into the crawl space and up into the old OTA cable boxes. This fall I spent a lot of time while she ws with her best friend replacing our old fencing. It's so nice to get up in the morning and do the work without honey do's and can you help, come here darling and look at this.

On our really long trips 10 weeks or more, we are so close and we have never really needed alone time. We become so close and if I can use the phrase, there is a lot of touchy feely, kisses and snuggling. It is hard to adjust to the much larger space available when we are in the stick and brick, we just don't have the emotional and physical closeness we do on the road.

You'll find your comfort zone just like we have.

I loved it! Married 35 years and we get along great BUT we all have moments. Example: I by chance was playing with my phone and recorded my wife being critical of something I did and she wasn't being malicious but was being overly critical and it did't really bother me but I knew if the role was reversed she would take it much differently than myself. So 10 days later I said the exact same thing to her and I was told that I was being rude. I chuckled and said watch this & played the video on my phone. She just grinned and said "you can't cook and I can so get over it". You have to love a gal with a sense of humor.

The difference between cabin fever and rv fever? Cabin fever is being tired of the same old surroundings. Since the RV can be moved to new locations, I think RV Fever is just a case of feeling like you're in a "box". I remember our trip to Alaska in our 28' Class C, just being weary of stepping over hubby's feet and 2 largish dogs sprawled on the floor... which is why we just bought a 5er with a huge slideout...LOL!

We'll be coming up on 45 years next spring and go everywhere together. We've been on an 8 week trip and a 10 week trip in our 24 foot Class C and didn't want to quit when we did on both of these trips.

We like a small Class C because it's easy to prepare, travel in, and take care of while still being very comfortable. Our stick house is enough of a "big residence" to take care of, so we think that small is better when traveling. We can get into small campsites better and it feels a lot more stable on unimproved roads whenever going to/from boondocking spots.

Crowe wrote:
It's both RV fever and cabin fever but it's also neither. You don't necessarily need to be separated to get your "space" but it doesn't mean your relationship is in jeopardy if you need/want it. Some things in life are obvious, some are subtle. Right now hubby is on the road, the house is quiet, and I have nothing I have to do. Do I want every night to be like this-absolutely not, but sometimes it's just nice not having to answer to anybody but myself. And sometimes the peace lies in knowing he's in the next room or downstairs doing his thing while I'm doing mine. It's more about the spiritual than the physical.

DH retired just after our 16th anniversary...over 20 years ago. He seems to have less need for "space" than I do, but he hunts and occasionally does a history event with me and I get some nice quiet time (with no one to answer to). Just NO MORE LONG DEPLOYMENTS!!!

Could we live comfortably in an RV as full-timers? I really don't know...we enjoy each other's company...

Now that's funny! We have been married 41 years and we do everything together. We are hunting buddies, and fishing buddies and so on.... We will be going full time in 349 days. Yes, we are counting off the days! Sure we're a little concerned about living in a 29' 5th wheel together full time. But, I know we will be ok, we'll just need a little adjustment time, no different than when we brought a new baby home from the hospital, and we did that 3 times :)

It's both RV fever and cabin fever but it's also neither. You don't necessarily need to be separated to get your "space" but it doesn't mean your relationship is in jeopardy if you need/want it. Some things in life are obvious, some are subtle. Right now hubby is on the road, the house is quiet, and I have nothing I have to do. Do I want every night to be like this-absolutely not, but sometimes it's just nice not having to answer to anybody but myself. And sometimes the peace lies in knowing he's in the next room or downstairs doing his thing while I'm doing mine. It's more about the spiritual than the physical.