Okay, so the title maybe gives it away. But! I promise that there will be a bit of a twist ending. Fine fine, not really a twist ending at all. Anyway, I’ll get to that in a bit. The Tournament I’ll admit, I was quite nervous. Worried about how I’d be perceived. About all...
Read more →There’s a Magic: The Gathering tournament this Friday. I was invited because they want as many people as possible to come to the game and I used to play way back in the day. It’s been quite a while. I started playing in, what, 1996? I don’t even remember. But it was a long...
Read more →This is a topic that frustrates me almost every time it comes up. You’re sitting at a game with your friends. You ask yourself why there aren’t enough women/minorities/gnomes at the table. Why it’s so hard to get some of your friends interested in the hobby. See, they like the same geeky media as...
Read more →I’ve been meaning to write up a summary of my experiences as the Gamer Wife for a while now. But between one thing and the next, I’ve never quite had the time or the energy. And the reason is fairly simple. I get push back whenever I talk about these things. I also get...
Read more →Anyone who knew me in real life would realize that I’m tiny compared to my spouse. He towers over me, over a head taller than I am. It’s incongruous at best. People notice him first when we walk into a room and he is memorable. Also, he towers over almost everyone. But he also...
Read more →Flirting is something that comes naturally to me. In fact, it comes naturally to almost all the people I know. I rarely mean anything truly serious about it, but apparently my intentions are frequently misunderstood. In this, I’ve gotten many responses to flirting that have, shall we say, warranted unwanted attention. As far as...
Read more →Drama. It happens to everyone. We see it between our friends. We see it with our children. We see it in our significant others. Drama is just part of the human experience. We are social creatures who do social things with other people and sometimes, drama happens. It’s rather unavoidable, and despite our best...
Read more →Favoritism and preferential treatment is a sticky topic. The fear and worry that surrounds this idea is deeply held and there are a million anecdotes that we’ve heard about it, especially in context of a Gamer Wife. Everyone’s heard a story or three about some guy who brings his girlfriend to the table and...
Read more →Now that you’ve seen the background to how opinions and behaviour changed when I became a Gamer Wife, I will touch on how the gaming table changed. In response to a number of comments I’ve seen, these are primarily the bad experiences. The negative things that I’ve observed over a decade of gaming. The...
Read more →The way that people treated me changed when I became a gamer wife. And so did the expectations they had for me. Subtle things happened at first. Remember, it was expected that my relationship wouldn’t last for long. No one pushed me to be the good wife until they were certain that this wasn’t...
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