Surprisingly supportive

[bdcjacko]

So last week I started to go down to the local game shop to play D&D encounters. I haven't played in 15 years, kinda just interested in doing it again. Anyhow, I checked with my girlfriend to make sure there wasn't a scheduling conflict or anything cause usually I pick up her son from day care because I get off work earlier.

She was actaully all for me going down and playing, which caught me off gaurd, I was sort of expecting her to be relucantly agreeing. You know, like she is fine about it but thinks it is super nerdy or giving me a lot of crap about it. I expected that because there is that stigma about D&D plus she hates Magic the Gathering and it is easy to lump those games together because well they are play side by side and owned by Hasbro, yadda yadda yadda. But anyhow, she was all for it. Gets me out of the house and meeting new people which is good because I recently moved to the town.

So have you had any situations like that where someone was a lot more supportive in your nerdy activities than you expected them to be?

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

My GF which eventually became my wife. We knew we connected, but had no idea how much. It started with both liking Dexter. Then one day she caught me watching Next Generation. She went Awesome! Sat down next to me and we started discussing who was the better captain. We found out we love video games and both have been sucked into the MMO world. She was part of a world dominating guild in WoW and I was part of a large guild in SWG.

She recently bought me the collectors edition of Old Republic. So yes support the support is amazing. But I will say being married to a geek has its disadvantages. For one thing all the relationships this woman has ever been in has been with a geek. So when I suck at something like Counter Strike (On average my kill ratio is 1 to 1) she makes it known. She also kicks my ass in fighting games and frankly knows how to build a better MMO character than I do. So every now and then my epenis shrinks into itself.

I always recommend opening yourself up to other person fully. For one thing if I kept my geeky life secret I would of missed out on something truly special. Another thing is girls tend to only think of one thing when you secretly go on the computer when shes away or sleeping. Make sure her thoughts are corrected.

 

[Adellebella]

For some reason I was worried this was going to turn into a "my gf let me play D&D without any reluctance....is she cheating on me?" thread. XD

As for your question, not really. Everyone's usually pretty excited when I mention D&D or gaming. But that goes with the stigma of a girl doing "nerdy" things.

 

[Jinxzy]

My boyfriend. My boyfriend and I live together, we play games together almost every day. So we're completely nerdy with each other, we get excited when patches come out and usually talk about the patches over breakfast or lunch. Unfortunately, I still like to play WoW. My boyfriend hates when I play because we would be sitting in the same room and I wouldn't speak to him for so and so many hours when raids were going on. I would tell him ahead of time when the raid were but he still hated them.

Lately he's been planning to buy a laptop and play WoW with me. I was in total shock when he told me he wanted to join me. Then I did my little happy squeak noise and hugged him dearly. He'll be getting his laptop soon and I plain on helping him get some of the games. I'm so excited to be playing with him. Even if we both start at level one. <3

 

[Phasmal]

Meh, me and my boyfriend are both nerds so it's not really a big deal.
Still, I thought it was really sweet when he let me go on Skyrim first, as we were both really excited about playing it.

I've always been rather uncomprimising with my nerdiness, it's who I am, I can't imagine hiding it.

Oh, and my mum bought me Pokemon Silver a while back despite the visible shame her grown-up daughter would want something like that.