Tim and my musical tastes are broadly similar and very wide ranging. I have a liking for Opera which he dispises, a tolerence for things with a jazzy influence which he can't bear and tendancy to certain novelty records which he adopts a sort of smug isn't she quaint attitude to. I do find some of the heavier rock stuff a tad old hat (ie the current American stuff - Limp Biscuit - you need to lighten up) and we do have problems when he hits an obsessive phase. The main problem is his tendancy to buy CDs while I'm working on my 10 year plan to rid us of all debt and set us up for life. We are also running out of room.

Now our daughter Cat complains that she is the only person she knows of her age who likes her parents music - although some of the folk song is too traditional for her (at the moment). It brings a warm feeling to your heart when you are sitting working on the computer listening her join in to the greates punk anthems ever. Perhaps that's why she wants purple streaks in her hair!

I don't know what I would do if Tim and I didn't go out an bounce up and down at concerts together- it would certainly cut the amount we talk to each other down dramatically.

All the best

Julie