Could you date someone who doesn't read?

[Perrywinkle47]

I wouldn't mind because reading has nothing to do with a healthy relationship anyway! So I wouldn't bother but yeah it can be an added advantage if your date reads, because then you would have more things to talk about!

[B-fly]

hmm I actually do. My boyfriend reads very seldom cause he likes only books which are on a philosophical topics. He has only 2 books. So strange. But I think there is a hope

[Perrywinkle47]

Lol, yeah I am sure because if he starts with one fiction, he wouldn't be able to resist either

[Alexa12345]

) I married someone that doesn't read very much, but who is a huge fan of the scentific chanells, since childhood. He knows even more than i do.
Everyone with his/her passions:).

[Perrywinkle47]

Also, its good to have dissimilar habits as the saying goes that opposites attract, so do dissimilar habits..

[Skittishpixie]

My husband isn't much of a reader. It's definitely just a choice. He'd rather watch movies or play video games. I think he gets more out of visual effects. It's not a lack of smarts, I think he just prefers to learn in other ways. He watches history channel instead of reading a history book. He just just doesn't seem to understand the curling up with a book. I actually have always thought it might be a matter of if a person has a good imagination or not. He tends to need to see something in action, rather than reading about it. While I like to read about it and bring it to life myself. He's fine with my obsession of it. He keeps quiet with other things while I sit with a book. And he brings me to the library or a bookstore whenever I want and doesn't complain about how long I take picking out what I want to read. I think it's healthy to have our own interests as long as we connect on some.
Although he's not much of a reader himself, he does tend to ask me about what I'm reading and tries to take an interest in it for me. He does love a good story, he just doesn't like to sit alone quietly reading it, he seems to rather feeling like he's involved somehow.

[AustinClassicist]

I think I'd rather date someone who didn't read at all, as opposed to someone who constantly reads drivel and then wants to discuss it. Much like someone who only watches jersey shore and then wants to discuss that mess. Just infuriating.

[Perrywinkle47]

I think I'd rather date someone who didn't read at all, as opposed to someone who constantly reads drivel and then wants to discuss it. Much like someone who only watches jersey shore and then wants to discuss that mess. Just infuriating.

Completely makes sense. I'll go with it

[Bequick]

I think I'd rather date someone who didn't read at all, as opposed to someone who constantly reads drivel and then wants to discuss it. Much like someone who only watches jersey shore and then wants to discuss that mess. Just infuriating.

Hear, hear!
Although I wouldn't mind dating a person who doesn't read. There are other interests that we can talk about.

[fairygirl]

yes i date with a boy named wasif he don`t like reading books but now loves me and also like books.

[Genevieve_ann]

I've tried dating guys who don't read. One especially drove me nuts, because he would say no books were interesting, when he hadn't tried any in years. Eventually I couldn't help but think he was just a dumb jock, which isn't exactly healthy for relationships.

Now I'm engaged to a man who reads. For fun. He doesn't read the same type of things I read generally, but I have so much more respect for him, obviously a plus.

[Perrywinkle47]

I think I'd rather date someone who didn't read at all, as opposed to someone who constantly reads drivel and then wants to discuss it. Much like someone who only watches jersey shore and then wants to discuss that mess. Just infuriating.

Hear, hear!
Although I wouldn't mind dating a person who doesn't read. There are other interests that we can talk about.

Yeah I know there is lot to talk to your date anyway, so you don't need to have a common interest as such. lol

[Tpearce_87]

I know the feeling... my fiance hardly reads at all, and when he does it takes him months to finish a book, while I chew through 3 or 4 a week, even with a newborn baby! I do get frustrated when I read something really good and I want to talk about it. No matter how much I try to get him interested in my books he just doesn't want to try. So yes, it is hard, but I love him anyway! And hopefully our daughter will take after me and not him!

[Tonya]

yes

[Makowtom]

I just had a fight with my girlfriend....because I do not read books. It has been a sore spot with her and I hear more about it now....to the point that we might break up. I guess I am surprised that so many of you feel so strongly that your partner should be a reader - just like you.
This seems to be a trait that only readers make this a priority.