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My husband likes football and horse racing and I like comping and the theatre but I go to race meetings with him and he comes to the theatre with me sometimes.

We like doing things together

Not really a problem here. Sometimes my DH wants to help with things I enjoy doing, eg cooking, gardening and other times he’s happy to do his own thing. I don’t get upset that he wants to join in. To be honest, we have quite a lot of shared interests but other things we do separately and that’s fine. I can’t imagine he’ll ever want to do Pilates, though, and I’ll never want to use an electric drill!

We share most things and I don't think he would be very interested in my stuff, doing jigsaws and knitting, not really his thin. However, I do all the cooking but to be fair he does all the prepping

I don't mind at all it adds to the motivation!

I'm happy that he's interested, unless he's better than me then all hell would break loose ?

My interests would not really be of interest to my husband so we do our own thing at home ,I can knit and bake knowing he is happy in the shed or greenhouse .

We share most things but if he 'helpfully' lends a hand (hanging out washing or folding it afterwards) I usually end up doing it all again anyway lol.

Unlikely. I can't see him sewing!

An argument probably, LOL!

I’m always looking for ways we can spend more time together so I’d welcome it as long as he didn’t try to TAKE OVER!!!

He is a bit of a know it all he would probably try to tell me how to do it making me laugh.

I tell him in a very diplomatic way, or try to.....unless it's cooking and then he can take that one for the team any day of the week...

My husband loves to get involved in anything I’m doing, from pottering around the house, baking, gardening
to just making the bed, then last year he went through chemo and all of a sudden I was doing these things on my own, chemo is now over and I’ve got my lovely husband back...long may it continue to have him want to get involved in whatever I’m doing.

can be a bit annoying depending on what it is but also good to have shared interests!

Happy for my partner to be involved - during lockdown we have been cooking together more which I love.

I would love my husband to get involved in my things - the cooking, cleaning, ironing etc. If he did get involved I'd be delighted,

We do a lot together - gardening, walking, cooking, drinking a glass or two at the end of the day, watching some TV, but we do have separate interests too- he wouldn’t be remotely interested in sewing or yoga and I am not interested in guitars or woodwork. Makes for a healthy relationship if we have some space of our own to retreat to, so no I’m happy with the balance of having some separate, and some shared, interests.

We share the kayaking. He is a stronger paddler than me.

I wouldn't mind as it's nice to be able to share something.

Pre-lockdown I would tend to be irrationally annoyed and pass comment that it wasn't being done as I would do it - however whilst thrown back on each others company 24/7 I think we have both become kinder and slower to criticise and now I try to think "1 less chore for me" and I also realise he needs new things to do whilst normal pursuits are unavailable.

When DH last got involved in "my" activity it was gardening and resulted in him pulling all my carefully placed plants up....or "weeds" as he called them. Or the time before that when he "helped" finish the mastic around the bath. Result was big blobs of the stuff everywhere...

I get really upset.There are few things I consider as my own which I cherish and he has no consideration for them and no awareness of my feelings.

I am afraid we have never worked together well so we have quite strict divisions in our house and wait to be invited to help each other in their activities

DH and I have different interests but do share some things: theatre, nice meals out, holidays etc (not possible at present). I wouldn't mind at all if he expressed an interest in, for example, reading a book I had enjoyed or wanted to listen to an online concert with me.