Do you and your OH have much in common?

OH and I are very similar really, we have similar jobs, like the same films/music/holidays, have the same tastes in most things really. We're both dog people, want children in the same timeframes, enjoy the same sports etc.

We tend to differ on the more practical things

I love to cook, he doesn't and will avoid at all costs
I am a morning person, he's more of a late night type
He doesn't read really, I am usually found with my nose in a book
I'm a spender, he's a saver

All in all I think we're very similar really, I always thought opposites attracted as all previous relationships had been with my polar opposites but they didn't last, then I met H and we're still going strong almost 6 years on.

On the surface, no: we have quite different political views and in a sense that's the most obvious difference, since both of us are quite passionate about it and both seriously considered going into it professionally before we got together (thank goodness we didn't - would have lead to some tricky situations!)

In terms of musical tastes, I am far from "down with the kids" and my CD collection is firmly stuck in the 80s, but H looked up from the BBC website when Michael Jackson died and asked me who he was - no connection with any popular culture.

TV we don't really watch, although we do both enjoy shows set in the world of UK politics like Yes Minister (see above!) I have slowly and quite successfully been introducing H to the world of films, working our way through the Best Picture Oscar winners since the 1970s, although I fear he will never share my passion for John Hughes films.

In terms of what we like to do in our spare time, the main things for both of us are travel and reading, and luckily we share similar tastes there. We're also in the same profession so similar lifestyles. We also share the same faith (although we have quite different theological views) - I don't think that's so important but in practical terms it makes things easier. I think we share some fundamental moral and philosophical views about equality etc. despite our political differences. It's the latter stuff that's more important really.

My OH and I seem to have much more in common now than when we first met.  We've been together 9 years so I guess we've grown together. 

When we first got together we had different tastes in music, he was active (I wasn't!), liked different foods.  Now we share similar music taste, he's introduced me to lots of new foods, same interests in films, both have become quite arty over the years.  Its funny to realise how similar we've become. In fact, I like it when we find something we disagree on (nothing serious) so we can have a good debate!

We've always had the same sense of humour which I think has been most important.

Pint&APie:

I think we share very similar values and outlooks on life.  We're also both quite intelligent and enjoy learning / being challenged.  Plus we have broadly the same taste in music / food / art / books / holiday destinations etc.

But at the same time, we're very different, but in complementary ways.

I'm a planner, she's a doer.

I'm too laid back, she can be prone to worry.

I'm a saver, she's a spender (or would be if I gave her the chance)

I don't like cleaning the bathroom, she hates hoovering.

It all balances out - probably why we've managed 14 years together.

That is pretty much us as well apart from a couple of things, I am a planner and Mr P is a wait around long enough for some one else to do it And we are both spenders although we are now starting to learn how to save money but took 7 years for that to happen though

We've been together 8 years in September.

I think we're similar in the important things. We share the same sense of humour and outlook on most things in life. We're both clever (him far more so than me), we both enjoy socialising, we both drink too much, like the same holidays, spemd rather than save and we generally agree on most things.

We differ in that he loves the Discovery channel and reads either sci-fi or crime books. I watch rubbish TV (soaps, Holby, Britain's Got Talent etc etc) and read chicklit. I'm veggie and he wouldn't / couldn't be. I worry about things, he doesn't see the point. I'm better with money than him and know what's to be paid and when - he just deals with things as they come up. The biggest thing we differ on is that he won't talk things through (emotional things as opposed to everyday problems) and this drives me mad.

All in all we get on great and we love each other.

We had a massive argument about this at the start of his summer holidays as he decided that if we didn't want to do anything together then what was the point of being together. I raised an eyebrow at him and waited for him to calm down before explaining that just because I don't want to climb the monroes doesn't mean we have nothing in common. But then thinking about it...

While we both like camping he likes to follow it up with a walk/run/rock climb/mountain biking trek whereas I'd like to go home and warm up or go to a beach.

I'm not a massive drinker but I don't see the problem in a few glasses of wine of an evening whereas if it's not a special occasion he'll rarely have more than one pint or glass of wine and therefore I am an incurable lush.

I will quite happily sit down and have the TV on in the background running repeats of Friends/Frasier etc on the comedy channels whereas if the TV is on he has to sit and watch it, he then dissects everything he's watching.

Everything else has been said, I'm a doer, he's a thinker, I'm a spender, he's a saver, I'm a reader while he can't stil still for five minutes etc. But it must balance out because when it counts we agree. We managed to stick together so far (seven years) and in that time we bought a house and a car and now we're working on where we're going to settle down and have kids so the lack of common interest can't be that bad!

Not a great deal. I understand his job (accountancy) as I used to work in that field, so we chat about his work, but our interests are different. We are both bone idle though, and both hate cleaning, which is why our house is always a pit & we both blame each other! I He makes me laugh though, is good at comforting me when I'm down & is encouraging of almost everything I do & I hope that I am the same for him, so mostly we work pretty well. We've been together for 9 years.