Update on getting the OH on your side

[Jonas]

It must be rough on a marriage when one spouse sees the oncoming chaos and the other wanders on, blissfully unaware. I'm glad your husband is now on board, Mary.

My wife and I have been on the same page for over 35 years now, but we lived in an area where blizzards, ice storms, and power outages occurred, sometimes for a week at a stretch. With six hungry children asking "what's for dinner, Mommy", "there's a blizzard outside and we're 5 miles from town" won't fly as an answer. We always had food in the pantry for 2-3 weeks, plus an emergency stash in the "pump room" downstairs, an iron fireplace insert that would keep the house warm enough (60F+) so that the pipes wouldn't freeze, 2 or 3 cords of firewood, and warm sleeping bags for everyone.

I wonder if some spouses of preppers would rather not admit to themselves that bad stuff happens, even to the innocent and pure of heart. Being a prepper means that you have realize that bad stuff can and will happen, your government won't be able to help everybody, and you have to accept the responsibility for your own survival as well as the survival of your family members - not an easy mental evolution for a person who hasn't faced hard times in his/her life!