Sharing Interests

May 31: My husband is a good sport.  Last night he experienced his first float.  He was luke warm in his initial response to the experience.  At first this bothered me.  In the old days I would’ve chewed on this for awhile like a problem to be solved.  Now I rotate it in front of the light looking for a different perspective.  We are different people so of course our experiences will be different.  And that’s alright; I’m grateful he tried it.

Experiencing each other’s interests expands horizons, opens avenues of communication, and in some cases may even foster empathy.  When I tell him I have a float appointment he can now picture it — the changing room, the chamber, floating in the dark, the quiet, the salt.  He now has context for asking questions or listening to my experience or recitation about floating.

We’ve done a lot of this in our marriage — sharing each other’s interests — from ceramics and choir to football games to me accepting a contract to work in his very specialized industry.  It helps keep a 30 year marriage going.  And you never know, that which the other exposes us too may become something we love ourselves.

Photo: The float chamber door

My first float was March 10th.  To read more about it click here.