Could you date someone who doesn't read?
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Re: Could you date someone who doesn't read?
My father has a reading disability, something that has always bothered him, but he grew up in a time where they didn't pay enough attention to these issues. My mom was an English teacher. An unlikely pairing? Absolutely. However they found so many other interests they they shared it didn't matter. Now they are both retired, and that does sometimes make things hard for my mom because she would love to sit and read and my dad watches TV, but it isn't a make it or break it kind of thing in their relationship.
I am an English teacher too, and I married a Math teacher. Again, two people who are quite different. He wasn't much of a reader when we got married. We moved into a house that actually had a room we deemed the library, and his sad little book collection, including text books, didn't take up a whole shelf. However because I would read he would look for something to read. He is into science fiction and I own a few, not many, so that was a starting point. In the last six years he has become an avid reader and book collector, and in fact his collection now takes up three shelves. We won't mention that my books don't fit on all the shelves and that we have bought more shelving for other rooms and that I have quite a few stashed on shelves in my classroom, but I have been at it my whole life!
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What matters to me most is that my partner respects my love of reading and books even though he doesn't read himself.
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It was definitely an experience that taught me that just because someone is a reader, that doesn't necessarily mean we'll get along. I wouldn't have any problems dating someone who doesn't enjoy reading, as long as they aren't negative about my love for it.
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