ME
Friends: mainly over 40
Night out: movie, cafe, dinner, reading, talk
Rentals: subtitles, documentaries
Books: novels, poetry, memoir
Main course: veggies
HIM
Friends: Mainly under 40
Night out: bars, live music, parties
Rentals: ”Mindless”
Books: African policy
Main course: meat
“You know, I think the relationship was over when you stopped reading novels.”
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December 15, 2008 at 2:05 pm
fg
Interests and chemistry are what attract; kindness and understanding are what hold us together. fg
December 15, 2008 at 6:40 pm
jennifernew
Yes, I agree. But what happens when those interests start to veer farther and farther apart? Doesn’t there need to remain some shared center area – like a Venn diagram – that goes beyond the kids and the house?