Does ANYONE's wife/girlfriend like SEIV?

DirectorTsaarx · #1 April 12th, 2001, 04:22 PM

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Originally posted by KiloOhm:
Right now, I have her addicted to the internet. I set her up with her own computer and she spends lots of time in certain forum's she likes. She also does plenty of e-mailing.

Just make sure she's not doing any "virtual cheating" on you in those forums...

Seriously, my fiancee doesn't like anything that takes my attention away from her for hours at a time (of course, I don't really like things that take HER attention away from ME for hours at a time either). Especially since, by the time we get home from work, there's only about four hours we can spend together before it's time to get to bed so we can get up and go back to work in the morning. Weekends are somewhat better, but I still generally try to play SE4 only when she's asleep or running errands on her own. We've been playing Final Fantasy on the Playstation together, but SE4 involves too much micromanagement for my fiancee to want to play.

greghacke · #2 April 12th, 2001, 06:07 PM

Best way to convert is not to convert...

I sat down with my g/f and bluntly explained there are things I like to do as my hobbies. I would do these regardless of she feels like participating. If this ment we would not spend some time together, so be it.

So far, of the list of 4 hobbies, she's accepted all four and participated actively in 3. She doesn't neccessarily like them, but she's willing to try.

The only weekend this ever causes trouble on is our local gaming convention (CapCon at Ohio State University.) I run Clay-o-rama for about 36 hours, destroying my voice and spending a pretty penny. She _HATES_ this, but I have a bLast.

KiloOhm · #3 April 12th, 2001, 06:59 PM

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Originally posted by greghacke:
Best way to convert is not to convert...

I sat down with my g/f and bluntly explained there are things I like to do as my hobbies. I would do these regardless of she feels like participating. If this ment we would not spend some time together, so be it.

Heh, without you saying g/f, I could have guessed you were not married.

It's all about give and take, my wife too understands that I like video games and play them whenever I get the chance. But I also understand that she just like to sit with me and watch a movie or something so against my better gaming judgement, I watch the movie (secretly plotting my video game playing for later).

It can't be all one sided!

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Regards,
KiloOhm

Dracus · #4 April 12th, 2001, 07:07 PM

The movies are not a problem unless it is a star trek movie or any movie with aliens (she hates star trek and can't stand that I like it.) She does like the movies about serial killers. ( that's why I have so much time to be on this forum. afraid to sleep.) She just does not like video games that much and does not understand why an adult my age would still find them fun.

Nitram Draw · #5 April 12th, 2001, 07:17 PM

I've convinced my wife it's cheap entertainment, a few trips to the video arcade with the kids was all that was needed to get her to agree.

Krakenup · #6 April 12th, 2001, 07:59 PM

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Originally posted by KiloOhm:
It's all about give and take, my wife too understands that I like video games and play them whenever I get the chance. But I also understand that she just like to sit with me and watch a movie or something so against my better gaming judgement, I watch the movie (secretly plotting my video game playing for later).

I do both. I have the computer set up next to my La-Z-boy so that I can see the monitor and the TV at the same time. As long as I respond to her comments and let her have the remote control, my wife is fine. Of course, I have to turn the game sound off.

AJC · #7 April 12th, 2001, 10:01 PM

My wife is very tolerant of my gaming habits for the 15 years we have known each other. Whether it was RP games I used to play or computer games now - She has put up with it since she was my g/f in High school, through our engagement, and now as my wife. She would rather see me here hanging out with a computer game - ready to be summoned back to work at a moments notice.... than at some meat market bar with all my friends that are prowling for girls.

She is into Video games so she understands my interest in a computer game more than she ever understood my interest in RP games.

[This message has been edited by AJC (edited 12 April 2001).]