Love And Other Disasters

It is a universal truth that, in matters of love, there are many types of tastes and many ways to love.
However, once a couple start their romance, sharing interests is a really important thing for each partner. It's very common to hear that a couple have broken up because, in the end, after few years of being together, they didn't get on well.
Many times this happens because each partner has his own interests or hobbies, which cannot share with the other.
At first, when a couple begin a relationship, every one of the components tries- with a very good intention- to understand and share the interests of his or her partner. There are actually several couples who manage to be together a long time because they respect and can understand the interests of their partner, but that doesn't happen very often.
We are getting used to hearing on TV or reading in the news that, almost 3/4 of couples break up in their first year of being together, and this is due to the inability to have cammon interests, so in one way it is important to share interests in order to get on well with your partner.
But, we don't have to give it too much importance, because if we get obsessed with the idea that we have to share ALL our partner's interests, we can hardly enjoy and see what do we really aim to do in a realtionship.
It is hard, indeed, to have the same interests as our partner, and I strongly believe that if we want to have a long and serious relationship, we have to be conscious that it's important to share our interests with our partner, but not too much, because in the end, if both had the same hobbies, we could get bored and this is, after all, a way to end up a relationship.