My wife is almost there as well. She keeps a gun with her, but it's not always in the most well thought out position. She's on board with prepping. I don't know that there was much question about it or convincing, it just happened. I mean honestly, spending an extra 10-20 a week on groceries didn't hurt anything. I'd just ask her to pick up a case of tuna, or a case of beans, or a 25# bag of sugar, flour, rice, salt, etc when she goes to the store. WE started with bare cupboards and had a month's supply of food in short order, and it's just crept up from there, where we were suddenly needing long term storage, more storage space, water, etc.