This is similar to a thread already started "cooperation from your spouse" but goes WAY beyond cooperation, or lack thereof. My Hubby is getting outright mean and hateful about it.
The fight started last night when I was online looking at various water filter/purification systems and I innocently asked him what he thought about a particular one. He just lost it! Said he didn't know what had happened to me lately...called me paranoid and gullible. Said I've been brainwashed and I'm acting like the end of the world is going to happen next week. Told me that everything I'm concerned about is no different than stuff people have been saying for decades and that nothing is going to happen. Told me I'm beginning to act like "one of those doomsday crackpots".
My preps thus far consist of 2-3 months of canned meats/veg, 5 lbs beans, 10 lbs rice, 6 lbs pasta, 2 giant pkgs of TP, a 65 gallon rain collection barrel, and 2 7 gallon water storage containers as well as a small bag of pool shock for purification.
I tried to point out that it's hurricane season and does he remember Ike and the fact that we were without power for 1 1/2 weeks? THAT started him yelling. Said we still had gas so we had hot water for showers and he was able to get ice (had to drive for 30 away minutes to find some) and that "we made out just fine". None of the what-ifs I brought up made any difference...what if the power didn't come back on for a long time, what if the gas was out, what if there was no ice at all, what if there was no gasoline to even go look for ice, etc.
Mind you, none of my preps have put us in financial hardship. He hasn't done without anything because of it. And he's not totally oblivious to what's going on in the world. He watches the news and reads the papers. He just refuses to admit that anything could happen. I don't think he can fathom a world where he might not be able to google something on his iPad.
Has anyone else had to deal with this extreme and how did you handle it? BTW, I will not stop what I'm doing, no matter how mean or nasty he gets. I will just start exercising OPSEC in my own house.
The fight started last night when I was online looking at various water filter/purification systems and I innocently asked him what he thought about a particular one. He just lost it! Said he didn't know what had happened to me lately...called me paranoid and gullible. Said I've been brainwashed and I'm acting like the end of the world is going to happen next week. Told me that everything I'm concerned about is no different than stuff people have been saying for decades and that nothing is going to happen. Told me I'm beginning to act like "one of those doomsday crackpots".
My preps thus far consist of 2-3 months of canned meats/veg, 5 lbs beans, 10 lbs rice, 6 lbs pasta, 2 giant pkgs of TP, a 65 gallon rain collection barrel, and 2 7 gallon water storage containers as well as a small bag of pool shock for purification.
I tried to point out that it's hurricane season and does he remember Ike and the fact that we were without power for 1 1/2 weeks? THAT started him yelling. Said we still had gas so we had hot water for showers and he was able to get ice (had to drive for 30 away minutes to find some) and that "we made out just fine". None of the what-ifs I brought up made any difference...what if the power didn't come back on for a long time, what if the gas was out, what if there was no ice at all, what if there was no gasoline to even go look for ice, etc.
Mind you, none of my preps have put us in financial hardship. He hasn't done without anything because of it. And he's not totally oblivious to what's going on in the world. He watches the news and reads the papers. He just refuses to admit that anything could happen. I don't think he can fathom a world where he might not be able to google something on his iPad.
Has anyone else had to deal with this extreme and how did you handle it? BTW, I will not stop what I'm doing, no matter how mean or nasty he gets. I will just start exercising OPSEC in my own house.