<human>: The short background: divorced with young kids, starting dating a nice guy and we've been together for two years.

There are a lot of great things about him so I'll start there first: he's great with the kids (and they love him), he is generous, he always pitches in to help w/ chores etc, we work great as a team, he's very loving, he can be easy to talk to, fights are typically worked out in a calm manner (no yelling), reasonable, levelheaded..

And then there's the not so great stuff. He has very basic interests - video games, bars, watching movies, and girls. And virtually nothing else ;) I try to talk to him about the news or politics and he has zero interest (and doesn't follow any of it so he doesn't know what I'm talking about). Yesterday, I tried to show him a two paragraph email on my phone and he didn't want to read it because he said it was too long. He doesn't like to travel. He doesn't like trying new food/different cuisines. He is a man with a few simple interests and hobbies.

Are any of you in relationships like this? Polar opposites but still successful in the long term? I don't want to imagine a life without him, but at the same time I wonder if I am forcing two opposite magnets together!

Can you give me a shortened version of the text?
<bot>: Can two people with completely different interests be in a successful ltr? Or is this where we have the we are too different chat?