How does you significant other feel about history?
How much do they embrace it like you do?

My wife isn't into history at all and so it is pulling teeth sometimes to visit a place with a strong American history background and do what I want also.

Ditto.

My wife is ok with. She really enjoyed Gettysburg, and a few other big ACW battlefields our east. When I do watch a tv show she's been known to sit through it and ask questions.

She likes certain history but not like I do. She is better with battlefields if you walk them versus drive them, looks on it as a nature walk.

My wife was NOT even remotely interested in history before we met. I've kind of rubbed off on her. The plus is she loves to travel (what woman doesn't).....so, when we plan our vacations, we include a typical historical stop. If i can find a movie that goes with a piece of history, it helps. (even if the movie isn't historically accurate...as most aren't!) For example: we watched Young Guns and Young Guns II and then went on vacation in New Mexico and went to Lincoln together. We watched Bonnie and Clyde and then went to the ambush site. We watched Gettysburg and then went to tour the battlefield. She loved it so much we stopped by Shiloh, and she kind of had a "ghostly" encounter and now she wants to go to more battlefields. Heck, we watched the old western, Gunfight at the OK Corral and Costner in Wyatt Earp....and she planned us a trip to Dodge City on our way to Colorado as much of the movies took place in Dodge....we didn't find much history, but did take in Boot Hill Casino....watching movies together is her thing, and if can get her to like a movie with some history....it works!

My wife tolerates it and will even attempt to learn at times, but she aint stopping at no historical marker on the side of the road!

(Luckily there is an app for that...)

Museums especially history need an early entrance because my significant other is still sleeping for a nominal fee once a month.

spud1910 said:

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But some of those things are not as interesting to her as her memories of finding Roman pottery at the Black Sea when she was growing up.

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Very cool!

My wife tolerates my love of history. When we travel, if there is a site or museum of significance, we typically will stop. She seems interested enough insofar as supporting my own interest, whether it be places like Vicksburg, MS or an airplane museum (such as Pensacola, Florida, or Macon, Georgia). Then comes our house, where I have several shelves in various locations displaying built-up scale models of mostly WWII subjects, so I'd say she is mostly good with my love of history.

My wife tolerates me as well. She has the intellectual curiosity of a rocking chair and it drives me insane.

Feeling pretty lucky right now since my wife is fairly interested in history as well. She may not want to spend as much time at a museum or historical site as I do, but she does want to go. The interest also spills over into our choices in movies/tv, books, etc.

Visited the WW2 & Confederate museums in New Orleans last weekend. Wife stayed in motorhome and watched movies.

My wife is pretty interested in most aspects. We've been to lots of museums, including military museums and stuff, battlefields, historic sites, etc. Where I lose her is getting too far in the weeds. We went to the field artillery museum at Ft. Sill. I lasted about 5x as long as she did. One cannon looked like another to her.

But she's also more into science and machinery than most females. Partially because she works in the Nuke weapons complex, plus she helped me on the farm (pre-kids), and got her pilot's license when I was actively flying. Now that daughter is in the Air Force, that keeps her interest in aircraft.

Her dad was a geologist, so she grew up having every family road trip being a geology field trip. Our poor kids, every road trip was history, geology, agriculture, military history, museums, etc. etc.