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Now if your partner is raising any of these points, they might be nice people, but they are not a keeper if you are seriously addicted to surfing.
They are seriously self centered enough to be genuinely Peed off by your self centered need to surf = conflict ahead and continuing episodes of me versus you!
Explaining why you need more than one board to a non surfer is like explaining why you need more than one golf club to a non golfer!
Then try to explain why sitting on the beach hanging out is just plain dead boring even more so should the surf be running .
BTW hanging out on the beach getting rays means a good chance of getting skin cancer later, and see how well you go with this, girls who continually tan look on average 10 years older than those who didn't and have no skin damage!
A repair thing to do is teach your partner to swim and then body surf then maybe boogie board.
Then they will run off with a better surfer.
Being able genuinely communicate well and taking time to share other aspects of a life together would be a good starting point.
Occasionally letting go of a surf for something else, there will always be another surf!
However if I heard the words "my partner won't let me go surfing" I would be in the market for a new partner promptly.
How you relate to each other is a choice and has movable goalposts so the better you talk to each other the better you relate.
Being in a relationship with a surfer is a lifestyle choice that can be greatly rewarding.
Fun points to consider,
the social occasions where the entire Pacific Ocean you have stored in your nasal passages since your last surf, flush out at your partner's major social event!


Your car has that wonderful aroma of manky wetsuits!
You go deaf for a number of days until your ears clear!
+ the whole set of items mentioned in OMS link