Camping Questions. How do I talk my boyfriend into it?

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☆paperbag princess☆ asked:

I’ve been with my boyfriend for a few years now. I’m 19 and he’s 20.

I really want to take him camping. I use to go camping heaps when I was younger and always had heaps of fun. My boyfriend has never been camping. When his family go away they always stayed in hotels..

I brought it up and asked him if he wants to go camping and he said ‘it’s not really the sort of thing that I do’. And I said well we can just go to a camping ground first and then we can go real camping. He said ‘I’m not good with the outdoors and stuff’ and I said ‘come on you’ll probably enjoy it and it’ll be just one night’ and he said he’d think about it, so I dropped it.

I live in New Zealand so it’s pretty safe here and there are no crocodiles or snakes or anything scary. It’s also summer here so the weather is still good.

What can I do?



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7 Responses to 'Camping Questions. How do I talk my boyfriend into it?'

  1. Deepak S - March 15th, 2010 at 10:19 pm

    ask him 4 a ride …. n then take him to a camp site…/. n then njoy

  2. gran.rose92 - March 16th, 2010 at 12:35 pm

    Wear a pretty skirt and nice blouse and not a stitch of underwear.
    Go out shopping with him or go for a walk and ask him if he knows what the term “going commando” means.
    When he responds, tell him that you are “going commando” right now and that he is welcome to feel if he does not believe you….
    Now comes the crunch….
    Ask him if he likes the thought of you going commando, and because he is a man, he will agree.
    Then tell him that you usually only go commando when out camping, and that you so much would like doing that again….
    That should convince him….

  3. Isabeu O (Finally a mummy!) - March 18th, 2010 at 12:34 am

    He’s just not really into it.

    A leopard can’t change his spots….however he can wet his fur!

    If he’s not into it, he would have flat out said “NO CAMPING”, but since he said he’d think about it, I think you may have just opened a window….a very tiny bit!

    Start off with maybe one night, if you can muster him.

    I think he may not be into it, because he may feel a little less
    ‘masculine’ since typically a lot of men are all out-doorsy, and he may feel that he just doesn’t want to be ‘shown up’ by his girlfriend!

  4. RAE - March 20th, 2010 at 6:40 am

    I don’t think you can really make someone like anything.
    Just point out the good points, and cross your fingers.
    Maybe you should bring it up again, or even tell him a funny/fun story from when you were camping?

    Don’t force him into anything!

  5. Fox M - March 20th, 2010 at 12:47 pm

    Ask him ***** (when your naked, not him)

  6. ☮ Music Life ☮ - March 21st, 2010 at 9:10 am

    Brive him.
    :]

  7. mare - March 23rd, 2010 at 4:10 am

    Is there something he’s asked you to do that you’ve been iffy about before? If he’s really into something your not (a sport he really likes?) then offer to try it out, go to a game or indulge him and watch a whole game on tv with him.

    Hopefully if you let him see how much you’d like to go and that you’re willing to do something out of your confort zone he’ll be swayed!


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