Donal wrote:
She hates it!
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I'm pleased to report that I've never had to shout at my wife while
we've
been sailing.
Sailing is *my* hobby. I'm very lucky that my wife comes sailing
with me.
I intend to keep it that way.

Gotcha. There are times when my wife would rather have me at the wheel,
giving her directions for the grunt part of whatever task we're doing.
She learned to sail with her dad who was a bit of an overbearing
screamer of a martinet, so she doesn't respond well to loud, critical
"directions." Luckily, I'm a pretty laid-back kind guy so that's
usually not a factor for us.

As long as y'all have a system which works for you. I'm very happy that
my wife enjoys sailing almost as much as I do and that the kids are
still enthusiastic about doing intensive family activities with their
decrepit old parents. I know that closeness tends to disappear in the
teen years; however, our interactions in the homeschooling community
seems to indicate that homeschoolers are less inclined to need as
confrontational a level of disasffection with their parents as schooled
kids seem to experience.

We'll see.

Frank