My DH begrudgingly goes to WDW but he doesn’t love it, and that’s really the only thing I wish I could change about him. We compromised, I wanted to go for 2 one week trips a year but he won’t go more than once a year so we do 1 two week trip per year so I can get plenty of time in the parks and he knows it’s important to me so he pretends to enjoy it. And I go along with his favorite yearly trip, a cabin in the mountains which is as he always points out, much cheaper lol. I love everything about him (which is pretty amazing after 20 plus years) but sometimes I think how much fun it would be if he was as into Disney as I am. I hope y’all find who and what you’re looking for.
You know, it seems petty now, but after my divorce, I tried finding someone that at least didn't mind going there, but never quite achieved that. The closest I got was one very nice person but had some serious mobility issues so didn't really want to go. It upset me that in spite of the sacrifices I might make to help her she still wasn't interested. I assumed it was because it was harder for her to go so she didn't like it. I even considered breaking up with her because of it.
I had an appointment with my "shrink" and expressed that and was told that I was putting to much emphasis on WDW. That was correct but it didn't solve my problem concerning the desire I had to have someone to share the fun I was having. Two days later, while carrying a number of items down a long flight of stairs, if missed the bottom step and landed on my right knee on a concrete floor. Didn't break any bones but my kneecap popped upward and severed my quad muscle completely requiring surgery and about 8 months of recovery and P.T. and the next 20 years of dealing with many severed nerves that took a very long time to find a new route to make me walk safely. Didn't I feel awful at that point, when I finally understood how having a mobility problem could put a serious damper on ones enjoyment of a place like Disney that required so much mobility. I felt awful about it, but we eventually broke up because I decided to move from Vermont to N. Carolina to be with the rest of my family and she didn't want to leave Vermont.
I never did find the person that could share my enjoyment of the place or my minor obsession with wanting to travel, even to places that weren't Disney. So I made probably 20 or more solo trips to WDW and
Disneyland. However, I did at least understand some of the reasonable reasons that some people do not get enjoyment out of the place. Now deep into retirement arthritis, spine issues and Disney has priced and detail burdened me out of my ability to meet them, so it was all a lot of angst for nothing.
So if your spouse or SO has no problem with you going solo, please do it. It's not the same but it has some pretty good perks that come with it. For example, the ability to do what you want, when you want to do it without having to take someone else's concerns into consideration. Ride what you want to ride, as often as your patience allows, eat when and were you want too. Come and go as you please and afford the opportunity to stop and smell those roses for as long as you choose. The moral of the story is that not everyone is able to enjoy the same things. It's wonderful if it works that way, but we sometimes have to accept that all of us are different and enjoy each other because of those differences not in spite of them.
In the immortal words of Ferris Bueller,
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it"
