[at-l] Spouses who hike together/do singles want hikers for partners?

[m_factor@hotmail.com (Mara Factor)]

>From: "Linda Benschop" <lvb@mindspring.com>
>Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 14:06:31 -0400
>
>...Single hikers....would it be important to you to find a spouse who is 
>into hiking?

I'm kind of in Nina's boat.

While hiking is certainly a significant part of my life right now, there are 
many other activities that continue to be important to me.  If I could find 
someone who also enjoys bicycling, ice-skating, dancing (ballroom, swing, 
salsa, latin, square, rounds, contras, etc), reading, traveling all over the 
world, NPR, scuba diving, Scrabble, star-gazing, and more in addition to 
hiking, that would be great.  More realistically, I hope to meet someone 
with whom I share some subset of those interests and who might have some of 
his own interests.  We would hopefully have enough in common to help form 
some basis of a relationship but yet enough of our own interests to remain 
individuals within the relationship.  If he's not a hiker, then perhaps 
dancing and bicycling would be fun to do together.

There were times in my life when I assumed I would have to marry a 
bicyclist, or a dancer.  If I had to chose right now, he would be a hiker.  
But I know that's not really necessary as long as he can appreciate my need 
to hike.

I know in the long run, my knees will not hold out and there really has to 
be more to the relationship than hiking to keep us together.

I obviously do not let my "singlehood" keep me home but yet I really do miss 
having someone special with whom to create a long and shared history.

There is time yet, I know...

Mara
Stitches, GAME99


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