There are also people not interested in skating
I can assure you that this is true on the basis of personal experience. When I married my wife I knew that she was mainly interested in politics, history and languages. She also knew that I was very interested in doing sports. In the weekends I played field hockey or cricket and in the winter I went skating if it was possible.
Notwithstanding her lack of interest she went with me to sport events and also on skating trips to Davos. There, at 11 o´clock in the morning I went skating and she went in the town to buy a Dutch newspaper and then she went to the stadium to read the news on the tribune in the sun.
Often she was surrounded by the skaters of the Dutch national team who had done their first training and had a break. They were also interested in the news. So one day in 1988, one of them asked her whether there was anything interesting in the newspaper. She answered “no, nothing” (the paper was the telegraaf). Later she offered the newspaper to the skater who asked her. After a short time there was a lot of noise in the group of the Dutch national team. They had detected that there was a whole page about the Russian skater Guljajev who last year became world champion all round. He was blamed for having used stimulating drugs.
My wife had skipped this page as being irrelevant according to her but in this surrounding this was not completely correct.
To her defense I have to mention that her disinterest was not only directed to skating. Also during cricket matches she was reading books with her back to the match in order not to be disturbed by the events in the field.
I should also say that this difference in interest does not have to be a problem in a marriage because soon we will be married for 50 years.
Notwithstanding her lack of interest she went with me to sport events and also on skating trips to Davos. There, at 11 o´clock in the morning I went skating and she went in the town to buy a Dutch newspaper and then she went to the stadium to read the news on the tribune in the sun.
Often she was surrounded by the skaters of the Dutch national team who had done their first training and had a break. They were also interested in the news. So one day in 1988, one of them asked her whether there was anything interesting in the newspaper. She answered “no, nothing” (the paper was the telegraaf). Later she offered the newspaper to the skater who asked her. After a short time there was a lot of noise in the group of the Dutch national team. They had detected that there was a whole page about the Russian skater Guljajev who last year became world champion all round. He was blamed for having used stimulating drugs.
My wife had skipped this page as being irrelevant according to her but in this surrounding this was not completely correct.
To her defense I have to mention that her disinterest was not only directed to skating. Also during cricket matches she was reading books with her back to the match in order not to be disturbed by the events in the field.
I should also say that this difference in interest does not have to be a problem in a marriage because soon we will be married for 50 years.