Nerd Boyfriends

[Thaius]

On the contrary, a good relationship requires that both of you share, or at the very least understand, each others' interests. Dating involves consideration of marriage, and I could never spend the rest of my life with someone who couldn't be involved in my nerdism. You've got to find a girl you can be nerdy with: I just got lucky because I met her on an Avatar: The Last Airbender fansite.

Really? Me and my guy are both real competitive... esp when it comes to gh. completely outclasses me when it comes to halo, but its awesome playing co-op

Well you've got me there at my angle of "Having never dated in his entire life and will probably be a few years 'til he starts" and it's good if you're partner shares some of your interests. But I was talking about keeping your nerd life seperate from your partner if he/she isn't into things like gaming.

Eh, I learned with my first relationship that if gaming is a big part of your life and she's not into it, she's probably not for you. I know it seems kind of shallow, but this is the person you may spend your entire life with: to at least understand your love for nerdism is a requirement if its any big part of your life. So my advice: by all means wait until the person comes along, 'cause that's just smart. But if you need to keep your nerdiness separate from her, she's not for you. You don't want to live your entire life holding back that part of you.

Anyway... my two cents.

 

[Simriel]

I think I'd try to keep my girlfriend and my geek life seperate, as in my life I have only ever experienced the latter. To quote Strong bad playing first person shooters with your girlfriend kind of ruins them both.

Umm... Why? It's a bad idea to be with someone you don't share interests with. Geek girls rock ^_^ I have one. She's awesome.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Oh! I won't give any more spoilers then, but the books just keep getting better! Especially once you hit Summer Knight.

Oh awesome, I'll get there in *calculates* about a month or 2, depending on arrival dates of the books. Maybe I'll just wait with reading Dune then, even though that's due to arrive earlier than Fool Moon. Or I can just stop gaming for a day or 2 and finish it in 1 go. I lurv reading.

Loves Dune... And Dresden... And Reading... AND gaming... T_T Why do you live all the way across the oceans and a continent?

And that's not even all! You're not the only one who wonders that, sadly we all seem to be spread out rather thin across the globe. Well, I guess we have to comfort ourselves with the fact that this is a rather small planet.

To quote Strong bad playing first person shooters with your girlfriend kind of ruins them both.

I beg to differ really. I must admit, healthy gaming competition between me and a nerdy girl is kiiiind of a fantasy of mine. Imagine: you're sitting there next to each other on the couch, trying to murder each other, one kills the other, it's almost a tie, she wins and looks on you with that sly look on her face....oh yeah.

 

[LiteraryLitany]

XD Okay, thought no better place to mention this than here, but I am now a nerdy boyfriend!

(One of my best friends wants a break from guys and them hitting on her so she's inventing a Canadian boyfriend and I get to be him online when she needs proof.)

Any suggestions on what I should do?

 

[LiteraryLitany]

Oh! I won't give any more spoilers then, but the books just keep getting better! Especially once you hit Summer Knight.

Oh awesome, I'll get there in *calculates* about a month or 2, depending on arrival dates of the books. Maybe I'll just wait with reading Dune then, even though that's due to arrive earlier than Fool Moon. Or I can just stop gaming for a day or 2 and finish it in 1 go. I lurv reading.

Loves Dune... And Dresden... And Reading... AND gaming... T_T Why do you live all the way across the oceans and a continent?

And that's not even all! You're not the only one who wonders that, sadly we all seem to be spread out rather thin across the globe. Well, I guess we have to comfort ourselves with the fact that this is a rather small planet.

*sigh* Yes, one hopes it gets small enough to find someone else eventually.

 

[Angelus SnV]

My girl and me seem to have a "friendly" rivalry in th'fact that she's a huge vampire fan, whereas i lean toward the werewolves...so we will often "argue" at each other with terms such as "Leach", "mutt", "glorified syringe", "obedience school reject"...

as far as most romantic thing i've done for her, i bought her a dozen black roses for valentine's day...everybody that saw/heard 'bout 'em got weird looks on their faces like i'd done somethin' blasphemous...they brought tears to her eyes so i think i did right...

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

XD Okay, thought no better place to mention this than here, but I am now a nerdy boyfriend!

(One of my best friends wants a break from guys and them hitting on her so she's inventing a Canadian boyfriend and I get to be him online when she needs proof.)

Any suggestions on what I should do?

Assistant Manager of an independant comic shop with a passion for astrophysics and an impressive action figure collection.

 

[LiteraryLitany]

ooooOOOOOOooooh, all the slots for precious add-ons... Yes, my imagination is quite enough to make this beauty perfect.

Hehe you are giving me hope maybe ones I finish my gaming PC I can get a girlfriend too (ahh I wish life was that easy)
but my PC is allot les attractive sense I don’t have engulf money for a gold plated case with a machinegun and a 400RPM fan.

Hey, there's nothing more attractive than this:

 

[BehattedWanderer]

For one of my favorite exes. Took her SCUBA diving, and signed "I love you" 60ft under the water, in absolute pristine, clear water, next to a group of turtles swimming past (what is a group of turtles called, anyway? A school? A herd?). It was the first time I'd said it for her, and she thought it extra special because she loves turtles (coincidence, I swear) and was definitely getting that "Does he actually love me?" feeling. After the dive, we went out for dinner, and came back for a midnight dive (something I'd definitely recommend to anyone who can dive), holding hands while we dove, led by only the light of the beacon above and our own flashlights.

 

[Mrs Garbutt]

Myself and My boyfriend of 2 years and 4 months have had our ups and downs, but still keep going.
Our best advice would be keep being best friends whatever happens, and always have at least one day of the week to be silly and be together, whether its out in the town just having a window shop, or in the park watching him chasig the pidgeons. No one has to spend money unless they want to and they can still have a happy relationship.

 

[JTLW]

Do I count as a nerd? Eh, I think I do. I'm probably equal parts nerd, metalhead and lazy butt.

Anyway, I haven't had a much chance to be romantic with my girlfriend yet. Super long distance. But I'm currently in the process of saving up for a silver Lord of The Rings "One Ring" for her, and saving up for the parts for a gaming desktop for her. :3

Batman-styled.

 

[Cowabungaa]

*sigh* Yes, one hopes it gets small enough to find someone else eventually.

Never give up dear. For me, I hope I've already found someone like that, if it really gets somewhere is still something for the (hopefully) near future, but I like to believe it's looking up good. I'll just keep my fingers crossed and keep working towards a positive end result, hopefully she shares those thoughts.

As for suggestions what to do in your little role-play: share your nerd side with her, and also very important; nerd boyfriends are apparently known for their gentle and tender sides. They make good listeners, and they actually talk back (*gasp* I know right), are interested in your person and not just your boobs. Be careful to not transform in the creepy, stalker kind of guy, nerd boyfriends apparently have a higher risk in becoming a creep like that.

 

[TransMando]

I work in theatre, the most romantic thing that I think I have done for a girlfriend was have a private candle light dinner in the theatre.

 

[Jirlond]

XD Okay, thought no better place to mention this than here, but I am now a nerdy boyfriend!

(One of my best friends wants a break from guys and them hitting on her so she's inventing a Canadian boyfriend and I get to be him online when she needs proof.)

Any suggestions on what I should do?

Assistant Manager of an independant comic shop with a passion for astrophysics and an impressive action figure collection.

Did you just try and get someone to become you???

 

[Thaius]

XD Okay, thought no better place to mention this than here, but I am now a nerdy boyfriend!

(One of my best friends wants a break from guys and them hitting on her so she's inventing a Canadian boyfriend and I get to be him online when she needs proof.)

Any suggestions on what I should do?

Heh, I did something like that before I ever met my girlfriend in person. She was tired of having 13-year old boys hitting on her in the chat room, so she would always tell me when it was happening and I would go onto a secondary account and start PMing the person. I would pretend I was her father and tell the kid to stop talking to my daughter: I'd accuse him of all sorts of crap and intimidate him until he'd back off. It was rather entertaining at times. Then I got my cousin online to meet her and, while in the same room as him, got on and pretended to be her father again. He didn't figure it out for like an hour: it was hilarious.

You could always just do that: it works brilliantly.

 

[Explosm]

Well I met my girlfriend on a chat room for Avatar: The Last Airbender (yes, one of the nerdier love stories ever), and she lives 4 hours away from me. Long-distance relationships are hard, but we've been going strong for about a year and a half now.

There was one time that I realized that I had kind of been neglecting her. I felt horrible about it and dedicated myself to paying more attention to her. The first step in that plan? Plot with her mother (her family likes me, so I can do stuff like that) to have two dozen roses bought and scattered around my girlfriend's room while she was at work. I also mailed a handwritten apology/love letter to her mother, who put it on her desk for her to read when she got back. Since then I've had her mom put one of her favorite candies in her room every time she's at work.

A bit on the nerdier side, for Valentine's Day last year I was learning to code visual novels (very basic video games), and I created kind of an interactive love letter for her, with some questions for her to answer and everything. She loved that.

Go nerds!

This is my favourite so far I really like that. The roses were a nice touch but what got me was the interactive love letter thing. thats so sweet.

It's tough with the distance, so I try to do stuff like that now and again. I also surprised her once by taking her to the Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy concert, which she retaliated by taking me to Star Wars in Concert. Ah, nerd love.

My friends make fun of me because my "dates" mostly consist of syncing up a movie and chatting online while we watch it. It works, though.

Also,

I asked out my EX-girlfriend through a Haiku.

Makes me sick thinking about it now though.

That's awesome. I don't know what she thought, but Haiku is the best kind of poetry (short, to the point, and easy to write ).

She went nuts over it. Thought i was the best thing since sliced bread, Feels really cheesey now though.

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

XD Okay, thought no better place to mention this than here, but I am now a nerdy boyfriend!

(One of my best friends wants a break from guys and them hitting on her so she's inventing a Canadian boyfriend and I get to be him online when she needs proof.)

Any suggestions on what I should do?

Assistant Manager of an independant comic shop with a passion for astrophysics and an impressive action figure collection.

Did you just try and get someone to become you???

My dream self yes. unfortunately the reality isn't as glamourous

 

[Jirlond]

XD Okay, thought no better place to mention this than here, but I am now a nerdy boyfriend!

(One of my best friends wants a break from guys and them hitting on her so she's inventing a Canadian boyfriend and I get to be him online when she needs proof.)

Any suggestions on what I should do?

Assistant Manager of an independant comic shop with a passion for astrophysics and an impressive action figure collection.

Did you just try and get someone to become you???

My dream self yes. unfortunately the reality isn't as glamourous

Are you really an assistant assistant manager?

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

XD Okay, thought no better place to mention this than here, but I am now a nerdy boyfriend!

(One of my best friends wants a break from guys and them hitting on her so she's inventing a Canadian boyfriend and I get to be him online when she needs proof.)

Any suggestions on what I should do?

Assistant Manager of an independant comic shop with a passion for astrophysics and an impressive action figure collection.

Did you just try and get someone to become you???

My dream self yes. unfortunately the reality isn't as glamourous

Are you really an assistant assistant manager?

...im a stockguy at a chain liqour shop