Do you and your spouse/partner have similar backgrounds?

My husband and I have many things in common. His parents moved very often when he was a child and so did my parents. We have both lived many places when we were children and when we became adults we both kept the same lifestyles as our parents. As adults we have both lived in many different parts of the country and we have both had many different kinds of jobs. In the first 3 years that we knew eachother we lived in 3 different places, but today we have decided to find a find a permanent home and stay here. The most important hobby that we have in common is travelling. We both love to travel and we have decided that we are going to visit many different parts of world together. We don't like the same kind of books or films. My husband likes detective stories or detective movies and he likes to watch the same movies over and over. I prefer to read other kinds of books and I prefer to watch new movies.

My girlfriend like fashion and cosmetics. I am not too fashionable. I am not a social person but my girlfriend do. However, both of us still try to accommodate each other interest and we try to get along and that makes us happy.

My boyfriend and I have a lot of similarities but we also have our differences. We actually look a lot alike and people sometimes mistake us for brother and sister (which is kind of annoying), we both have blondish hair and the exact same shade of blue eyes. We both have different hobbies- I like to ride horses and he likes to skateboard and ride dirtbikes. But, we take a small interest in each others' hobbies and he'll even come out to the barn sometimes and brush my horse. Even our personalities are kind of similar. I think all the similarities are what helps us get along so well and love each other so much. We do have our disagreements sometimes but I'd say we're more alike than we are different.

My present husband and I have not. He is born and lives in Africa. He is hardly educated and still lives in the middle ages. He is blind for what is going on in the world although he can use internet and does have a cellphone. He prefers to see what he likes to see and that is how the world is. He is not able to understand how other people live or waht kind of sorrows they have. He is also not able to think further, to make conclusions out of a story. So you have to talk in a simple way to him. Answers you give can better be: yes or no as giving him a reason why or why not. My ex was (high) educated as well. Always complaining, never satisfied, no fun at all. But he did not had the same background as me either. You can go to university but that doesn't mean you been raised on the same way, with the same ideals and the same open view/opinion. My mother came from a very rich family, she is white and worked so my (black) father was able to study for a doctor. This was already at that time very rare. Still my present husband fits way better as the one I had (low educated parents, drunk mother etc). I think if a relationship/marriage will work depends on both. What are you able or willing to invest and to give up. What counts most to you? If you know yourself and the answers to these questions you will make it and the whole relationship will only make you richer. Since a relationship is also a large package of life experiences.

There are things in me and my husbands background that are the same but not everything. We both have experienced abuse in our past different kinds but that is a big common ground for us. He plays music and I sing so that's a bit different. He is also the oldest of his family and I'm the youngest of the family. We like a lot different things but there is a lot of things we do have in common with each other. All relationship kind of have that some are more things in common then others.

My girlfriend and I have been together for the past seven years and in some ways we've had very similar upbringings, but in other ways we've grown up very different. As far as our family's backgrounds, we're both of European descent. She grew up in a Christian family, while I grew up without any religious upbringing at all (thus resulting in me being an atheist). Our religious differences was actually a bit of a problem for a few months in the first few years, but after we got past that, it's been pretty easy-going. I've opened her eyes to a lot of new music and film. It's just been a lovely learning experience overall being with her.

hai! opposite poles attract each other,, maybe that will describe me and my husbands relationship. we do not have the same background but we experienced the hardships of life during childhood. what i learn about is, no matter how different we are to each other, the important thing is, we respect and love each other for who and what we are.

Hi! Sometimes opposites do attract. But when it comes to religious background I say that both must have the same belief. Thank God that we have the same belief as my partner. We have different views but we still go together althoughw e really collide sometimes. We have differences. Sometimes its is useful in filling up what the person is lacking in life.:)

no we don't have similar backgrounds. it is like if i am positive then she is negative.but we don't know what things comes us together.the most and the only thing in common in us is we both love each other very much.and one thing more we have similar thought only on one topic "Money".other than that we are very different like she like sweets and i just hate it.i like romantic movies and she likes comedy etc.