Bicycle dates

[Bustertb]

I've been married going on 11 years. Having your mate ride with you won't be a sticking point years after you are married because you will WANT to go on a ride BY YOURSELF!

Everyone is different and my situation isn't the norm. DH and I work together so we are together more than ppl who have different jobs. I am someone who likes her space. I LOVE my DH. But my bike rides are my time to cleanse my soul as well as my legs.

And it'll be nice to be able to leave the kids with hubby and go for a bike ride without him wanting to go too and then getting in a row over who can go for a ride.

Use your heart to find him, but use your head to decide if he's the one. Good luck!

[Yasmin]

I'm with a great guy, but we don't have much together time. Actually, our marriage is under threat & has been for a while. He has the job from hell & little time for anything or anyone else (including himself). He's a neurosurgeon & obviously you can't rest on your laurels with that kind of pressure. All n/surg spouses experience the same thing, but I'm finding it hard going & very lonely. I should say we've only been married 3 1/2 yrs...first marriage for both & together for 5 1/2 yrs. No kids on either side & no family support here. He's 53 & I'm 49. I don't know if it ever gets any easier. He bought a bike but fell off within the first week & received a 100% dislocation of his right acromio-clavicular joint (lumpy bit at end of collar bone). Too dangerous for him to try again. If my marriage ends I don't think I'll bother anymore. I find that guys don't accomodate very well, they always expect us to do the accommodating. This is my third long term attempt (1st & only marriage) & it's always been me upturning my world for the guy. So when it ends guess who has to start from scratch again?. I'm too old for all of this.
Disillusioned & sad. Y.

[sandra b]

I met my honey online, and our first date was a bike ride, then dinner afterward. Almost a year later (just last week), he just proposed, after a bike ride, and dinner at the same resturant. He does Triathalons, I don't run, but we ride together a lot.

We both agree that riding is important to us, and it is important to us to have a partner who "gets it".

On our second date I asked him for his view on politics, religion and a woman's right to choose. Since we were compatible in these areas and bikes, I thought he was perhaps a keeper.

Just last night he told me he could see through the shorts I was wearing, and that I had them on for our first date as well....