Vegetarians and Vegans: Have you ever been in a relationship with someone who hunts?

[ChristineLouise]

I have recently taken on the Vegetarian lifestyle and my husband used to be a hunter as a teenager and most of his family still hunts (their grandmother has a cabin upstate where they go every year to hunt.) I have always been against hunting, but it wasn't the reason my husband stopped, he says he was never really into it. However, his family keeps throwing insults at me now that I am a vegetarian saying I better not "throw my opinions" at them during hunting season. I have NEVER "thrown my opinions" at them...ever, so why are they getting so defensive now that I am a veggie? Have you ever had a situation like this? I just want to have my lifestyle without them judging me.