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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Lemon Merchant" data-source="post: 1719224" data-attributes="member: 2864">I actually met my wife through gaming.  She was a friend of my college roommate and I came home from class one day to find her flipping through my PHB.  Apparently she had played some in high school and wanted to start again.  She was a regular in my group until we graduated and then for about a year or so once we entered the "real world."  She stopped playing because she wanted to spend the time doing other things and now that we have a little one and another on the way, it's obvious where that time is being spent.  She has slipped into the "tolerates" my hobby, she understands how much a part of my life it is so she doesn't nag me about it.  Besides, I'm a stay at home dad and I need a few hours a week for myself.I consider myself fortunate, we've an aquaintence (we went to school with him and now he works for the same company as my wife) whose wife despises the fact that he is a gamer.  Of course she completely controls every aspect of the poor guys life (to the point of rationing the time he isn't at work) and is a master at extortion (I believe that's the right word).  For example, he went to Gen Con when 3E released (2000?) in order to do so he had to pay for her to spend a month in Germany, without him.Moral of the story, if you've got an SO that even tolerates your hobby and occasionally nags you about it, consider yourself lucky.</blockquote>