I'm an only child, so although I'm pretty social and outgoing time alone for me is pretty key to my sanity.

We've been married 14 years, and have an 11 year old and both work full time. We both ride. He also plays tennis (blech ball sport) and is active in our tennis club (I'm only active at the bar/pool there ). SO in addition to riding, we have different interests as well. DD and I ride horses occasionally and spend time at a friend's stable. He's not remotely interested in that!

I think he thinks I should ride more often, but shorter distances. He's half right. He is a little tired of my super long rides (into the night) because he worries about me. But he'll deal. And riding with him is tough these days because he's much faster. When we started it was the other way around, but that's fine.

We couldn't do a lot of the bike things we do if his parents didn't live in town and help out so much. For example, we're leaving this afternoon to go to a bike ride in the mountains and will spend 2 nights away. We'll try to get back Sunday early enough to have a day with DD. But his parents are tremendously helpful. Heck, it would be pretty hard for me to juggle work and the kid now that she's in a school that's farther away from home if we didn't have his parents to help. (She used to easily walk/bike to school and the teacher was there from 7 am to 6 pm so she could go early and stay late. This year things are a lot tougher.)

So we're lucky.

And I get about enough alone time. I work at home several days a week, so I'm out of the office, etc. and by myself. And some of my riding time is my alone time as well.