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The common interest in religion, like that in sex, is still very much alive. Retired now, we may get to five to nine religious activities a week (we are very active in a synagogue and two churches) and it is not at all uncommon for us to be reading a life of Jesus or something similarly religious in bed naked together before making love. We even read out loud to each other, serious stuff and sometimes sexy stuff. We haven't turned on the TV in a couple of years (except for a very occasional videotape or documentary).
I think Mrs. Thorney sometimes reads the creeds looking for loopholes. She is a deeply religious woman, but her beliefs are probably much closer to the Arian heresy (Jesus was a saintly human being) than to standard Christianity. We really do both read actively in the area, and do report to each other on what we've read. And not infrequently, naked.
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by Thorney on 2005 Feb 5 - 20:00 | reply to this comment Mutual interests Thanks for the tip about the Rubinstein book, it looks absolutely fascinating, I've ordered it from amazon.
Although I think it is very nice if a couple have mutual interests, I don't think it is absolutely essential for a happy relationship. Couples I have known who had far more in common than my husband and I do have split up, whereas we are still together. Strong sexual attraction was the initial reason why my husband and I got together, he had his eye on me for about eighteen months before he asked me out "I didn't half fancy you" as he observed to me recently, remembering the past. I think on the subject of having things in common I agree with what Agatha Christie said , she believed mutual tastes were not necessary: "Those of my husband are academic and intellectual, while mine could be described as frivolous and fictional. However, we seem to manage splendidly." And they managed splendidly for forty-five years.
I don't mean that I don't appreciate the things that we do have in common, I do very much, but the fact that many of our interests are different actually seems to make our relationship more interesting. I admire his practical skills and immense fund of technical knowledge and expertise, and he finds my store of more arcane knowledge useful when he needs help with doing crosswords and things.
