So my boyfriend and I don’t have many common interests. He’s into the sciences and math and I’m very creative and into the arts and English. Because of this, I ask him to teach me things that I don’t know (he’s offered to teach me) because 1) I genuinely enjoy learning new things and 2) if learning this means I’ll be able to have more interesting conversations with my him then I’d loved to learn something. He’s taught me a bunch of stuff- marketing, computer shit that I had no idea about, a bit of skills for hacking, etc. and it was great. Never did I feel like I was pushing myself to do this because I needed to make conversation with him. It was just really fun and a bonus that we could converse over this. Anyways, he isn’t really interested in much of my interests (which is fine, I’m not going to push him) I’ve briefly told him about stories I write, how I would like to write books in the future but it doesn’t interest him, he doesn’t ask to read anything, he doesn’t ask what I write about. However, when he speaks of his passions, I want to know more, I enjoy it because I want to know what he wants to do and because I can tell it makes him happy. He lives an hour away from me so we Skype at night and watch anime which we just did (something we both have in common) but anime doesn’t leave much room for conversation and socializing. Afterwards, I was trying to talk to him but he was too busy looking at random shit on his computer like he always does and replying to me a minute after so I just had enough. I feel like he doesn’t see that we don’t have many interests (I enjoy talking about things, I don’t always want to be lovey dovey telling him I can’t wait to hug him and kiss him) but at the same time he does because we’re very different. I feel like I’m trying and he isn’t. He has assignments at uni and I’m so clueless so he offers to teach me a little, I have assignments on English or art history and he doesn’t care. Maybe that’s just the way he is, and maybe I just enjoy learning stuff but I’m tired of trying and not feeling appreciated :/ I don’t know what to do.