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| dashv:
--- Quote from: sworddude on October 21, 2019, 01:43:01 pm --- --- Quote from: dashv on October 21, 2019, 11:01:40 am --- --- Quote from: telly on October 21, 2019, 09:13:22 am ---If you're not dedicating enough time to your family, kids, and your partner (because it's not just wives here) then they have a very good reason to take issue with that. It's about balance and priorities. --- End quote --- In two of my friends cases my wife got it right. They knowingly married women that did not like video games at all. They thought they were an addiction similar to alcoholism and wanted to abolish them completely from the household. The guys naively though their dream women would change after one game of Smash Bros or Mario Kart. But that didn’t happen. The problem is not women so much as it’s asking a leopard to change its spots. Don’t marry or date someone for what you want or wish them to be. Be ready and willing to accept them as who and what they are or move on. Contrast to my house where the entire downstairs is a tribute to arcade/pinball/console gaming. Half is mine. Half is my wife’s. Women can game as much as men. I follow and am friends with several gamers on twitch and twitter of the male and female variety. I just have yet to have a personal experience where a guy asked a girl to give up her games. --- End quote --- accepting eachother has to come from both sides not just 1 side if a relationship does not come from 2 sides it's going to fail or the poor fool will just suck it up and live miserably while accepting the shitty stuff that is forced upon him/her if there is no divorce. i have rarely seen succesfull couples with matching hobbies. if both like the same hobbies it's just a bonus but that's not the rule for a succesfull relationship really. it's not like the wife is usually interested in vintage cars. motors, photography etc etc and vice versa this isn't a problem with game collecting only. in a good relationship it's more balanced and not forcing one of both parties to just eject their hobby for good. it's all about sharing and see what works out the best for the both of you it's all about finding a good balance. --- End quote --- That was the only point I was trying to make. Both have to accept the other as they are. Not as a project for them to work on or perfect. I agree sharing hobbies is a bonus, not required. But the other party can’t be out to take your hobby from you either. |
| turf:
--- Quote from: dashv on October 21, 2019, 10:15:20 pm ---Both have to accept the other as they are. Not as a project for them to work on or perfect. I agree sharing hobbies is a bonus, not required. But the other party can’t be out to take your hobby from you either. --- End quote --- Well said, DashV My wife can give less than two drops of tanooki piss about games. But she’s completely into me being into games. She helped me make a building to store and enjoy all this stuff. She never complains when I spend money on games. She backs me up on my hobby and gets pumped for me when I get excited. She’s a great wife. She just doesn’t dig games. |
| marvelvscapcom2:
--- Quote from: turf on October 22, 2019, 01:48:40 am --- --- Quote from: dashv on October 21, 2019, 10:15:20 pm ---Both have to accept the other as they are. Not as a project for them to work on or perfect. I agree sharing hobbies is a bonus, not required. But the other party can’t be out to take your hobby from you either. --- End quote --- Well said, DashV My wife can give less than two drops of tanooki piss about games. But she’s completely into me being into games. She helped me make a building to store and enjoy all this stuff. She never complains when I spend money on games. She backs me up on my hobby and gets pumped for me when I get excited. She’s a great wife. She just doesn’t dig games. --- End quote --- That's awesome! That's how my brother's wife is. She doesn't care at all about games but she supports him 100 percent. I got lucky because my wife plays more games than I do as it's her full time job. So I can binge with her and our compulsive gaming kinda compliments eachother. :) Some people like cars and devote a lot of time and money into that, and some girls are big into makeup and shoes. Some dudes are sneakerheads. I think the key to a good relationship is to be supportive or compatible with eachother including hobbies and interests. |
| Warmsignal:
Some just aren’t as sentimental about things. I’ve know of people who are interested in such things but ultimately can’t hold onto anything they ever owned. They’re obsessive about fresh starts and new chapters and whatnot. They don’t have any appreciation for clutter. Nowadays there’s less and less reason to go the route of amassing tons of old wares. When you can go out and pick up a snes mini and a genesis mini and have a lot of your essentials taken care of right there, or maybe just mod an Xbox or pick up some multi cart and get your fix easily. Why dedicate an entire room to it if you aren’t sentimental about the stuff aspect of it? A lot of people realize how silly it is, and it is silly. If you’re in it purely for the gaming, then don’t bother building a game collection. It’s a huge drain of time, money, and space. |
| pzeke:
An illness. Full loss of interest; outgrowing the hobby. Trying to get money to fund something else. Drugs. An overbearing wife. There's plenty of reasons. Shit happens. --- Quote from: Warmsignal on October 24, 2019, 01:04:22 am ---If you’re in it purely for the gaming, then don’t bother building a game collection. It’s a huge drain of time, money, and space. --- End quote --- Maybe it’s the impression that I get, but that comment kind of contradicts itself. I'm in it for the gaming, but also like having and continuing to build my collection to have a varied selection of games – nothing better than variety. I’m certain I’m not the only one that feels this way. |
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