How do y'all feel about having a dive hobby without your spouse?
No problem. I've done multiple solo trips. She's off on a topside trip with an old high school buddy right now, where I think they sit on a hotel balcony on an upper floor, look at the ocean, yak at each other and occasionally go piddle around a shop somewhere.
It's not unusual to hear stories where hubby is an avid deer hunter or operates a personal plane. Many women do a lot of shopping alone. And of course some people break the stereotypes or do 'gender neutral' hobbies without their spouse.
It's nice if you share a passion together, but that doesn't have to be every passion either of you are allowed to have.
I ask what the difference is perceived to be with recreational diving. I suspect it's either the money, or the idea the diving spouse is jetting off to 'the tropics,' or maybe that you're not sharing the 'fun' with her.
The cost of diving is a serious issue for many of us (but there are a number of recreational hobbies like that). As for 'the tropics,' I've been on multiple tropical dive trips and I have yet to see the cast of the old
Baywatch series (or similar) jogging up and down the beach, or something along the lines of 'Muscle Beach,' etc... No sexy hottie eye candy extravaganzas.
As for 'fun,' well, if you happen to be a stereotypical guy and your wife at all stereotypically 'girly,' have you ever been drug along on one of her shopping trips to Kohl's or similar? My point is that just because an activity is fun for one person does not mean it's fun for another.
I've had reservations on taking a dive trip alone, I always felt it was rude to leave my wife on shore while I dove.
It's possible to entertain oneself topside at many destinations. Some people pick dive destinations with that in mind.