It really is magical.
I read to my wife sometimes, since she enjoys it and it seems to help her migraines for some reason.
But it doesn’t have to be a partner even.
Back when my body betrayed me and I had to quit working, i was depressed as fuck. My best friend would sometimes just sit and read to me. We got through the entire narnia series eventually. Ngl, it was part of what kept me alive through the early stages of it all
Read to your homies, folks
I used to do this over the phone for my partner when we were in high school
This was before you discovered sharks I assume
It was shark highschool
‘“Space Raptor Butt Invasion” by Chuck Tingle, chapter one…’
Ah, starting with one of his more vanilla novels, I see.
I read to my fiance pretty much every night, we both really enjoy it. Or sometimes I will make up a story to her, like I will ask her “what do you want to hear a story about tonight” and she’ll say “flying fish” or something… it’s funny though it makes her fall asleep so quickly she never remembers what I was reading/talking about, but she says it’s very comforting.
When my son was little, I read to him every night, until he was about 10. At some point I started reading the Harry Potter books to him, butnhe outgrew the nightly readings before the series ended. So as each subsequent book would come out, we would resume our nightly readings. The final book came out when he was about 13, but he still wanted me to read it to him.
I had voices for each character, and once on a long road trip, I got one of the HP audio books from the library to listen to. After about 2 chapters, he asked me to take it off because he liked my voices better.
That’s a huge parenting win right there.
Absolutely, it made us super close. He’s now 27, and and we are still best friends.
That’s the good parent award right there. You should be proud of yourself, it isn’t always easy. My own son is a bit younger but we have the same thing going, building computers together and whatnot.
Meanwhile I haven’t spoken to my violent alcoholic excuse for a father in almost a decade. If I manage to outlive that asshole I’m going to his funeral solely to tell everyone exactly what a piece of shit he was.
My best advice to parents is: Love what your kids love, and your kids will love you.
I agree wholeheartedly.
My eldest daughter and I did this as well. It gave us a super tight bond. I had major medical problems when my other kids were young and they didn’t get the same attention. It’s obvious and I have had to work extra hard to build similar bonds with them.
I’ve been on both sides of this and, yeah, it’s pretty unexpectedly hot and/or sweet. Once had a girl recite Chaucer in the original Middle English from memory. Pretty good. Prettyyyy, pretttyyyy good.
My partner isn’t really a book person, but they’re a big gamer and sometimes when they play a game specifically for me to watch and it doesn’t have voice acting, they’ll do voices and read it for me. It really is just so fun and makes me feel so special? Like it’s worth all that effort just to entertain me
I read Outer Wilds dialogues and texts for a dyslexic friend ::)
It was fun !
This is probably my favorite game of all time! Thank you for helping to spread it to others!
10/10 very much recommend doing this for your significant other.
Ngl. Literally crying reading this. That level of connection that I’ll never know 😭💚💚
Step 1 attract a mate
I love the concept, but I could never do it. Reading out loud triggers me something fierce.
I blame grade school.
How do you feel about being read to? Your spouse might enjoy being the reader. I haven’t read to mine but I loved reading aloud to our kids, especially The Wee Free Men, even though I was apparently wrong in pronouncing “Crivens!” with a long I. Pratchett books in general are great for doing the voices, because they live on the Disc, so technically you’re never butchering the accents even if your version of sounding out those vowels and consonants and apostrophes are like nothing on Earth.
This is the best. An ex gf and I were going on a short 2 hour road trip the day after Harry Potter 7 came out. We stayed up alternating reading chapters to each other.
The next day in the car her and our friend both read aloud from where we left off. We got stuck in traffic for an extra 2-3 hours but time flew by.
It’s one of my favorite memories.
I read a couple of books to my wife, as well as a limited series of comics period it was wonderfully intimate! Although she tried to read to me, and I just kept falling asleep.
Interesting, I will try to read a book for my wife. She has read some classical fairytales for me before, since I didn’t grow up with them. I did enjoy it, but I think a regular book would be better 🤔
We both love to read, but have such different tastes. Can’t imagine this going well, unless it ends in an ironic pillow fight.
I do this for my wife any time she doesn’t start reading her Nook before bed. It makes her happy, and usually puts her to sleep. The Nook just keeps her awake.
