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My wife questions me almost every time I put it on. I answer her questions, but I never stop putting it on. Case in point. This weekend, we traveled to Carlsbad NM for a wedding. We get back to the hotel after all of the festivities and, after changing clothes, decide to go down and have one more smoke before we hit the hay. As I'm changing clothes, she sees that I'm readying to strap up. She says, "are you really gonna take your gun out when we are just going down for a smoke?". I didn't respond sarcastically or anything, I simply told her that yes, I was because if we were to be robbed in a hotel parking lot at 11pm, my gun would not be beneficial to us in the room. She nodded and didn't say another word. Sometimes I think she just thinks its a macho thing, when that is not the point at all. After I gave her the short explanation, she saw the logic in carrying, and nodded in agreement.

My advice is to answer matter-of-factly to her questions...no bravado, no sarcasm, and be nonchalant. The more routine you seem to be about the process, the quicker it will be just a routine thing for her.