Everyone has their own individual interests.
A guy isn’t looking to date his twin.
If anything, he enjoys dating someone who has certain differences from him.
Having shared interests helps with connection, but you don’t have to align on everything.
It gets boring when everything aligns.
The fact that you don’t watch basketball or football is an opportunity.
Since he spends quite a bit of his free time watching basketball or football, you have provided an avenue for him to broaden his horizons.
He engages in an interest of yours that he normally doesn’t do, such as watching your favorite true crime show alongside you on a Friday night.
This broadens his horizons, and he is loving it.
He is being exposed to something new, and that adds spice to his life.
A guy won’t at all mind that you don’t watch basketball or football, as long as you don’t complain about him watching basketball or football.
As long as you let him enjoy his basketball or football game on a lazy Sunday afternoon as you sit next to him scrolling through your social media feed, fetching him a beer from time to time when he runs out, he is perfectly happy.
You don’t have to love everything he loves, nor vice versa.
What’s most important is that you respect each other’s interests and hobbies, irrespective of whether there are certain disparities in what you both like.
Respect is the key.
Especially with guys.
He wants to enjoy watching baseball or football like he has since he was a little boy without getting an earful about how bored you are.
As long as he has demonstrated respect for you and the interests you have that don’t align with his, you should pay him the same respect.
He doesn’t expect you to like every interest he has, especially when it comes to sports.
Guys know from early on in life that most girls aren’t anywhere near as in love with sports as they are.
He doesn’t expect any girl he dates to love sports as much as he does, if at all, and he knows this.
There is no need to worry that he won’t date you because you don’t watch basketball or football.
Again, the most important thing is that you respect the fact that he loves to watch basketball or football and that you give him that time without making him feel guilty about it.
This goes for when he wants to watch basketball or football with his friends.
Watching sports is a bonding activity for guys.
It’s akin to when you get together with your girlfriends to shop.
Shopping is often a bonding experience for women.
He won’t get in the way of you going out with your girlfriends to shop over a weekend day and have a grand old time catching up with each other on the events of the week.
As long as you respect his time watching basketball or football with his friends, or by himself, while aligning with him on other interests, he has no problem dating you.