What do you and your spouse enjoy doing together?

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In what ways do you (or did you, if your spouse has died) enjoy companionship with your spouse? Do you have shared hobbies? Do you like watching TV, playing cards, having coffee in the morning? Do you work together? Do you pray together? Or perhaps companionship isn’t important in your marriage, I’d like to hear about that too.
 
Physical intimacy.
Talking–about our family life, about politics, religion.
Scrabble.
Sitting on the deck with a drink and a snack enjoying the outdoors.
Hiking.
Reading in the same room.
Taking a bath.
Once a month, we select a fussy, time-consuming recipe with expensive ingredients and make dinner together (though we’ve missed a couple of months).
Watching TV with a snack and a drink.
Doing yard work together.
Sending the kids to the grandparents and going out to eat together.
 
Married 41 years, dated for 6 years before marrying.
  1. Having meals together, at home or out.
  2. TALKING!
  3. Chips and Dip (my husband’s special recipe from his Grandma!) and TV (right now, we’re trying to get through all 11 seasons of Modern Family).
  4. Shopping the vintage stores for our collections (typewriters for him, uranium glass for me)
  5. Watching figure skating competitions in person (or on TV), especially when our daughters are competing (yes, they’re still involved with the sport in their 30s!)
  6. Bluegrass music festivals (local)–love the atmosphere and the sweet music.
  7. Attending Mass together, although I often am at the piano instead of sitting with him. But when we travel, we get to sit together 🙂
 
Getting the kids to bed, making a cocktail, and watching some trashy reality tv before bed. The more braindead the better.
 
Talking and just hanging out.
Traveling together. Relaxing together, cuddling and goofing around on our respective computers and showing each other silly memes or telling each other dumb stuff we read.
In our younger days we’d watch TV together but not so much later on because I didn’t like any of the new shows.
We joined a group who follow a certain band and would go to the shows and events and see all of our friends who also went.
We’d go out to eat sometimes or to have coffee.
Mostly just hang out, talk, spend time without talking.
When we got older we’d take naps.

I sure do miss having him to talk to. That was the best part. Although we could also just sit in silence for an hour and that would be okay too.
 
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Married 32 years. Now that the kids are grown we love going on holidays together. Going to the movies. Eating out. Pre dinner drink and snack after work on Friday.
 
Coffee in the morning wordlessly. Working on yard work or a home improvement project together. Helping our adult children when they need it to move, or do a project. Playing scrabble. Watch a series on Netflix each day until it’s done. Routines, however small. Sitting in the same room while we read or use our iPads (like now as I write this.) Making each other laugh at our inside jokes. Going for car rides in the country. Planning our next adventure.
 
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Irishmom2 said:
Coffee in the morning wordlessly. Working on yard work or a home improvement project together. Helping our adult children when they need it to move, or do a project. Playing scrabble. Watch a series on Netflix each day until it’s done. Routines, however small. Sitting in the same room while we read or use our iPads (like now as I write this.) Making each other laugh at our inside jokes. Planning our next adventure.
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We have lots of laughs about silly things nowadays. Also somewhere along the line we stopped being bugged by each others flaws. Can’t remember when the last time we even had a disagreement was. There was a time about 18 years ago I thought about just walking away but thanks be to God, I stayed because we are now so content and at peace.
 
We like to go target shooting, going for walks/hikes, taking long drives in the country, going to get McDonald’s, discussing politics, I love playing cards and sometimes my husband will indulge me and play a game or two with me.
 
Married 32 years. I started working part time at a winery about 11 years ago and we both got hooked on wine (he even started to help out with wine festivals and such.) Now I work there full time and he still loves helping out (with or without pay) and on our days off, we like to visit wineries, have a snack, do a tasting or have a glass or two, and just talk! We love to travel together and mornings and evenings on our back deck with coffee or a glass of wine are perfect. We love to go for drives up into the mountains and just hang out.
 
bluerose said:
Now I work there full time and he still loves helping out (with or without pay) and on our days off, we like to visit wineries, have a snack, do a tasting or have a glass or two, and just talk!
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I can’t drink very often because it doesn’t agree with me, but this sounds like a lot of fun!
ZemD said:
I love playing cards and sometimes my husband will indulge me and play a game or two with me.
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I love to play cards too. Wish my hubby did!
Tis_Bearself said:
I sure do miss having him to talk to. That was the best part.
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I’m so sorry. That must be so lonely sometimes.
 
To think that I never used to like wine, unless it was super sweet and now we both enjoy dry, tannic reds and crisp, acidic whites… we’ve learned a lot and had a lot of fun doing it! And we get to meet so many interesting people too!
 
Just “being” with each other…if one of us has an errand to run, the other frequently rides along. Taking walks. Praying the Rosary. Enjoying the company of the little Glennons. Watching sports and movies on TV.
 
Well there’s the obvious thing, but there’s also going for walks, singing and playing the piano together, going out to eat together, going for drives, going fun places with our kids, swimming, attending concerts and musicals, and travel.
 
Motherwit said:
We have lots of laughs about silly things nowadays. Also somewhere along the line we stopped being bugged by each others flaws. Can’t remember when the last time we even had a disagreement was.
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Oh, yes, this is us now! 32 years of marriage and watching two of his brothers lose their wives at young ages really put our disagreements in perspective, as well as helped us prioritize what’s really important.
ZemD said:
playing cards and sometimes my husband will indulge me and play a game or two with me.
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My husband taught me to play canasta and we used to play every weekend with his parents. His dad has been gone for 13 years now and I can’t remember when was the last time my husband and I played. Better break out the cards this weekend and try to remember how play!
Glennon_P said:
Just “being” with each other…if one of us has an errand to run, the other frequently rides along.
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This ^^^^^^^^^^^
 
Lucy_1 said:
In what ways do you (or did you, if your spouse has died) enjoy companionship with your spouse?
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We talk(faith, life, plans), play board games, read in silence, go hiking, for drives, shopping etc. Gardening and watching box sets is something we regularly do together.
We often plan out stuff for the future together…holidays, plans for a house etc.
And obviously being physically close.
Lucy_1 said:
Do you have shared hobbies?
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Not as such. I’m very much into kayaking, she doesn’t like getting cold or wet. That’s ok though. Kayaking is my thing and I have friends that I do that with.
Lucy_1 said:
Do you pray together?
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Yes. We usually say a rosary most days and go to Sunday mass together.
 
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