Have to add my story to all the others. We were in the new place just just about a month when, at about 3:00am, the house alarm goes off. My wife told me to get my shotgun out of the safe. I said, "Way ahead of you."
Long story short, I'm armed with my 870 and she has a broom. When I asked her what she was going to do with that she said, "Well, you didn't get me a gun."
Luckily, it was nothing.
We went out later that week and bought her a handgun.
About a month later, the dog starts barking like crazy in the middle of the night. I grab the handgun(it was the only one we had at the time) and the wife is left with the broom again.

We went out and bought another handgun that week.
Then...The wife and I took our CHL class purely as a way to get some training. We debated on whether to go ahead and get our CHL's for a while after the class. We decided to go ahead and get them so we could carry in a SHTF situation.
I think it took me almost a week before I started carrying religiously. She still doesn't carry though. She is fine with the guns around the house and she's glad I carry.