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My wife won't let me play D&D.
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<blockquote data-quote="Steve Conan Trustrum" data-source="post: 402860" data-attributes="member: 1620"><p>In my opinion, the best thing to do is use logic to back her into a corner with logic and make her realize how silly she's being. Tell your wife that you're having these same guys over one weekend to do something as simple as watch a video, sporting event, or just to sit on the back porch and drink some beers. Do this for a couple of weekends and then let her know that they're coming over for some D&D. When she starts going on about how it's a waste of time and how you have better ways to spend your time, ask her something like "you mean like having these same guys over just to watch TV or drink beers?" Once you've pointed out that she's had no problem with you doing things that are by far a more wasteful use of time (in her eyes, at least), you can start making her accept that she is just prejudiced against DnD and can start working on that. Doing things like this work for me all the time, but it all depends on how willing one's girlfriend/wife is to back down once you've backed her into a corner using her own "logic" against her.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steve Conan Trustrum, post: 402860, member: 1620"] In my opinion, the best thing to do is use logic to back her into a corner with logic and make her realize how silly she's being. Tell your wife that you're having these same guys over one weekend to do something as simple as watch a video, sporting event, or just to sit on the back porch and drink some beers. Do this for a couple of weekends and then let her know that they're coming over for some D&D. When she starts going on about how it's a waste of time and how you have better ways to spend your time, ask her something like "you mean like having these same guys over just to watch TV or drink beers?" Once you've pointed out that she's had no problem with you doing things that are by far a more wasteful use of time (in her eyes, at least), you can start making her accept that she is just prejudiced against DnD and can start working on that. Doing things like this work for me all the time, but it all depends on how willing one's girlfriend/wife is to back down once you've backed her into a corner using her own "logic" against her. [/QUOTE]
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