can opposite personalities work in a relationship

jetplane

I think most posters on here agree that you can have a different personality but core values are what really matter. Me and my husband are chalk and cheese or ying and yang. We are different in every way, appearance, intellect, age, interests, family backgrounds, however our goals are in common, we have the same values on finance, work ethic, child rearing, sex, loyalty. Our family unit is our priority, the rest is compromise.

Wild horses would not have dragged me out of my 5 star hotel into a tent until I gave in, tried it and loved it. I think we have both benefited from trying out different things that we would never have done if we weren't so different but I could not live with someone who did not have the same core values.

BugglyB

Prothet_of_Doom wrote: »

When I married my wife (and I do love her a very lot) she pretended to be interested in cars, motorbikes, camping, hill walking, and climbing, swimming, cycling.

23 years later, she admits to me that, she had, and has very little interest in any of these things.

She is interested in shopping, hotels and fancy restaurants, and the theatre.

Apart from the theatre, I'd rather eat in a climbers cafe, and sleep in a bothy than waste time and money on luxury.

But what is a man to do. I've got a weekend planned which does not involve her, but does involve a tent and a hill,(and my son and nephews) and I've got a weekend planned with her, which involves a nice hotel, theatre and good food.

Puts me in mind of this song:

The Outdoor Type