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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jos Stratford" data-source="post: 1375754" data-attributes="member: 12449">Just as well we're all different, 'cos all the talk of compromise and balance would not work for me - having to endure hours in a shopping mall just to go birding, or stay at home one weekend to go out the next, would right depress me. I'm in the same boat as Colin D, quite happy if a partner wants to do her thing, have her own friends and go on holiday with them, etc. I can then do the same. Totally selfish, but life is short enough as it is, why waste it doing things you don't want to do -  relationship would only work (for me) where this is a given.Only compromise in my boat is to go to such stunning localities, eg East Africa or the Arctic or wherever, that even a  most passive of birder gets thoroughly engaged.</blockquote>