Could you date someone who doesn't read?
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Re: Could you date someone who doesn't read?
I doubt that I could. I could never get emotionally close to a person who doesn't read books, mainly because we could never discuss a specific book, and the person would never be able to take any of my recommendations let alone make any recommendations of their own to me.
(This is nothing that's happening to me right now, just a random hypothetical that I've been pondering when I can't sleep at night and such.
I don't think that matters even a little!
My husband and I (together almost thirty years) have very different interests in reading material.
While I read almost anything and will stay in one genre for a certain time, he reads sci-fi/fantasy only.
I am usually reading something, while he will go months without picking up a book... then he'll read an entire series or author until he's done, then not read for months and months again.
We rarely discuss reading material, but we do ask/tell each other a bit about the story (like describing the best parts of a movie) which is sharing each other's excitement about the book. I talk with friends about books and now... I come here too!
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I don't particularly enjoy having a difference like that with a significant other, but non-readers are all I seem drawn to. I recently gave a girl my number, and all I had to write it down on was an extra bookmark that I never use. Turns out she hates reading, so that was sufficiently awkward.
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My current partner's love of books rivals my own and I have to say, I'm grateful for that rivalry every day.