What interests do you have in common with your spouse?

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Also, did you always have common interests, or did you both get into new things together as your relationship progressed?

I'd also love if you posted how many years you've been a happy couple. :)))

Please don't answer this unless your relationship is over five years old. Thanks in advance! =D

Answer 1

We've been married 32 years and we're very happy.

We have some things in common......like traveling, our family is very important to us....we have a 22 year old daughter.

But we have interests that we don't share.....I'm a homebody....I love to read & I'm writing a book.

He's a tennis and golf freak. This is how we've always been and it works for us.

I think having different interests keeps the spark in our marriage.

Answer 2

We been together for 10 years. We don't have a LOT in common, but we have a deep love and respect for one another so we find commonalities and work with them.

Whether it's movies, books, or dining out, we're different. He likes the adventure and sci-fi. I just like romantic comedies and things based on real-life human interest stories. We watch our own shows on tv but there are shows we both watch together and have a "date" to watch those.

We both like computers and photography so we share that interest and are always upgrading and looking for ways to push the envelope in that field.

He's a more social person and I'm fine behind the scenes or on my own. It does help that he's social sometimes because he'll break the ice with neighbors and friends and open the door for more conversation with others for me.

All in all it works out for us. We're very happy and it's not what we do that keeps us together, it's how we feel when we are around one another.

Answer 3

We have been married for 8 years. He has been in the military the whole time. I share his interest for the military life. We like funny movies, taking long drives on Sundays, going out with friends (when we get the rare chance), love any resturant that serves steak, cooking a big breakfast on the weekends, being outside, hunting, fishing, card games, BBQ...I could go on forever about the things we both like.

I hope some day we are the old couple sitting on the front porch holding hands.

We have 2 kids. boy-4 girl-10m

Answer 4

Well I will say we met though her boy friend...we both learened we had many things in common music, love animals, Dancing, riding horse's, talking, her boy friend at that time hated all those things.. and the more we talked we grew to like each other..that was 17 yrs ago..we have been married 16 yrs..we like cooking together, Traveling, We like watching movies, and just sharing life together...we even took a martial arts class together..that was fun..we did that for 9 months

Answer 5

We've been happily married for seventeen years - second marriages for both of us. We have many common interests - our kids, veterans' affairs (we're both veterans).. We have developed new interests - I got her into ham radio and we have become involved in re-enacting the American Civil War, me as a surgeon with the 12th United States Infantry and she as a Sanitary Commission representative. Our unit - you could call it a club, I suppose - goes to various events throughout the year re-enacting Civil War battles and events. Come see us at the 145th Anniversary reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg next July! Should be quite a show with some nine thousand of us at the event.

Answer 6

My husband and I are total opposites, he's very outgoing and friendly, I'm shy and cautious about meeting new people. We've been together for 15 years. We balance each other out, you know, yin and yang. I think over the years, we kinda have adopted some of each others traits. Also, it's good to have your own identity, we respect e/o opinions and sometimes we agree and sometimes we don't and at the end of the day, our love for each other remains the same.

Answer 7

We are still together for 9 years. 8 years of courtship. Some common interests like food, hobbies, sexual preference, movies.

Some opposite interests but eventually we give in to each other and make it our interest together. Till now no problems.

Answer 8

Well we haven't lived together for 5yrs but we've been together 13yrs and only lived together for 3yrs.I hope that's ok to answer.
We do have a lot in common,first of all we both love music.He likes reggae most which i don't particularly like but i compromise and he does the same with my kind of music too.We are both easy going,we tend to like the same foods and clothes.But most of all for any relationship to work even if you don't like certain things you need to compromise,not always but often.It makes it work.

Answer 9

We're both musicians and that's how we met 20 years ago. We both enjoy reading, research, concerts, children, diy restoration, and many other things. One thing we have in common is we both love to talk.....we can't get enough time talking to each other.

Answer 10

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