My hosts are in their 80s,still very vibrant, active affectionately and strong. They have been married for 45 years since they both divorced their first marriage. Over the year,I have acknowledged the husband, wakes up at 4:00am and read a book,sometimes it sounds like a whole chapter to his wife,before they head to a hot tub outside at 6:00am,They do this daily before they start their daily morning prayer that starts at 7:00 am-800 am. Do you read a book or anything for your lovely partner too?
My husband and I read to each other during trips and during the day when together, and continued this with our two kids, who quickly assumed their own reading turns by the time they were four and five.
When my daughter visited me here in Thailand for two months in 2016, we read the entire Harry Potter series aloud to each other. She had never read it before, and I had only recently discovered it after buying the first Harry Potter book at a book shop on Petang Island, Malaysia, during a four-day visit in 2014.
To me, this is #RelationshipGoals. I think reading to each other would be incredibly romantic. Obviously, not religious material. I would totally do it if my partner was down.
My ex gf still reads me the christian science daily lesson when I stay at her place. Don't bother me. goes in by one ear goes out by the other.
I am a poet with 6 books I have published, so this is standard procedure for me. Not the waking up early, or having any kind of daily ritual around the written word. Mine is either more spontaneous, or devious, depending on the necessary method of application required
Well that is an interesting routine to be sure. Two hours of reading, an hour in the hot tub before I'd have breakfast -- and approaching 90? My hat's off to 'em.
My wife and I are both avid readers and often finish the day reading to ourselves from our respective iPads for 30-60 minutes before we toss down. Once in awhile we'll share something interesting with the other. When one of us buys a book that interests the other, and it's loanable on the Kindle app, we've been known to loan something from our library to our partner so we don't pay for it twice.
My wife favors a more escapist fiction-heavy menu, I am more evenly divided between fiction and non-fiction. But she is a writer and so her stuff is always of high quality. I on the other hand sometimes read truly pulp / hack sci-fi / fantasy as well as the better-rated stuff.