be honest: does your girlfriend accept you as a gamer?
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Yes, so long as I don't let my gaming habits slip into the realm of unhealthy (no weekend-long gaming binges anymore, which I'm actually glad for 
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I think she does. She's seen my huuuuuuge game collection and didn't react too badly. She likes playing little Facebook-type puzzle games, so I'm pretty sure I'm good.
I don't play much when she's around unless I can include her in what I'm doing and she's having fun. Seems only polite.
I don't play much when she's around unless I can include her in what I'm doing and she's having fun. Seems only polite.
Not really, I keep that stuff seperate. Sometimes when I'm playing CoD she talks on the headset but thats more like a joke than anything.
In some respects yes, in some respects no.
It helps that she is a gamer herself. and not the sexist a-typical female gamer, though she is playing frontierville, farmville, cafeworld as I write this.
But she started out old school with games like Mario and guantlet. She even helps her sons friends earn achievements on 360 in games like the call of duty franchise. We even have been known to game together, as we at one time played as a static group in Everquest, until she basically took my toon over and made him a two box tank.
So yes she is accepting in that im a gamer, but at the same time shes not.
We have different play styles, shes more action oriented, where as im more of a puzzle/rts/rpg type. She skips cutscenes, whereas i dont get the motivation to repeat the same actions if there isnt some sort of exposition explaining why. Shes more of a group oriented player, where as Im an old school soloist.
So the biggest way shes not supportive is that she will get jealous when I dump like 60 hours of my life focused on something like KOTOR, because shes not a part of that experience, and takes it as relationship neglect. Which from my understanding, its that form of "neglect" that is at the root of why some girls resent games.
On a humorous side note, I was once accused of being attracted to CJ from San Andreas, simply because I was paying too much attention to him.
It helps that she is a gamer herself. and not the sexist a-typical female gamer, though she is playing frontierville, farmville, cafeworld as I write this.
But she started out old school with games like Mario and guantlet. She even helps her sons friends earn achievements on 360 in games like the call of duty franchise. We even have been known to game together, as we at one time played as a static group in Everquest, until she basically took my toon over and made him a two box tank.
So yes she is accepting in that im a gamer, but at the same time shes not.
We have different play styles, shes more action oriented, where as im more of a puzzle/rts/rpg type. She skips cutscenes, whereas i dont get the motivation to repeat the same actions if there isnt some sort of exposition explaining why. Shes more of a group oriented player, where as Im an old school soloist.
So the biggest way shes not supportive is that she will get jealous when I dump like 60 hours of my life focused on something like KOTOR, because shes not a part of that experience, and takes it as relationship neglect. Which from my understanding, its that form of "neglect" that is at the root of why some girls resent games.
On a humorous side note, I was once accused of being attracted to CJ from San Andreas, simply because I was paying too much attention to him.
Same. My Ex dealt with it fine but who knows what the next one will be like.lacktheknack said:
Your boyfriend is a lucky man Teddy. Don't let him forget it!Demented Teddy said:
My girlfriend is just as much of a gamer as I am, she's on this forum too, infact we were just playing Trine together ^_^.
Words of wisdom from Chris Rock:
"When you love somebody, you got to love everything about them. You got to love the crust of a ************. You can't just love the white part of the bread. You gotta love the crust, the crumbs, the tiny crumbs at the bottom of the toaster. That's what the real ************ is. Whatever you into, your woman gotta be into, too, and vice versa...or the shit ain't gonna work."
Now she doesn't necessarily have to be a hardcore gamer like you, but she needs to at least understand and accept your chosen hobby. If you keep your hobby separate from your relationship, "that shit ain't gonna work".
When my wife and I were first dating I let her know my interests, which include gaming. You can't be shy about what you like. I told her I play online games and had scheduled raids and whatnot (this was in Dark Age of Camelot back in 2006), she thought it was kind of cool and I knew I had a keeper.
Also one night I fell asleep while she was messing around on my computer and when I woke up 7 hours later she was still on the computer - she had found Civlization IV.
"When you love somebody, you got to love everything about them. You got to love the crust of a ************. You can't just love the white part of the bread. You gotta love the crust, the crumbs, the tiny crumbs at the bottom of the toaster. That's what the real ************ is. Whatever you into, your woman gotta be into, too, and vice versa...or the shit ain't gonna work."
Now she doesn't necessarily have to be a hardcore gamer like you, but she needs to at least understand and accept your chosen hobby. If you keep your hobby separate from your relationship, "that shit ain't gonna work".
When my wife and I were first dating I let her know my interests, which include gaming. You can't be shy about what you like. I told her I play online games and had scheduled raids and whatnot (this was in Dark Age of Camelot back in 2006), she thought it was kind of cool and I knew I had a keeper.
Also one night I fell asleep while she was messing around on my computer and when I woke up 7 hours later she was still on the computer - she had found Civlization IV.
