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My wife and I had met casually at a BBQ but several months later we met at a display the astronomy club had on campus during O week. Suddenly she found astronomy _very_ interesting and visited the display every day. That was the start of our 31 years together.
With that as a begining she was never going to object to my hobby. For many years she came along to a few observing nights and enjoyed looking at the pretties. (She found nights when I decided to track down the faintest galaxy possible a bit tedious.) A few years ago she decided to take the hobby seriously and is now the secretary of our small club.
We also now have his and hers scopes - more or less. I tend to get the 'unwanted' scope! We first bought a 15cm refractor with goto but she found it too difficult to set up and her idea of learning to sky by watching where it pointed just didn't work (told her so). So we got a 25cm dobs and a laser pointer and she is now learning her way around the sky using that. Except of course if she feels lazy and then it's back to the goto, once I have set it up for her. This arrangement probably makes observing more work for me but I am not complaining. We like doing things together (eg camping, bush walking, bird watching). The only passtime I won't share with her in bicycle riding; she is just sooo slow - every 100m I have to stop and wait minutes for her to catch up. I think she must get it stuck in reverse!!
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