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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 554916" data-attributes="member: 158"><p>Shadowdancer:</p><p></p><p>Consider the opinions in this post as equally worthless as all other internet opinions you have thus far been exposed to. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> But I do have some suggestions of things to try, if you think they might work.</p><p></p><p>My wife also had a practical upbringing, and it has been recently over the past few years that I have managed to drag her out more into participating in hobbies that she likes. Most people have a hobby they enjoy, even if they don't particiapate in it, but a lot of times, practicalities in life force us to drop them for a time; sometimes, the dropping becomes permanent, and it forces a big chunk of what makes us unique from others, out fo our lives. The trick is to NOT let it happen, but if it does, patience and understanding of others who care about us are necessary to encourage us to pick it back up.</p><p></p><p>Your wife loves sports, aparently a lot. One thing I have always brought up to sports fans who do not understand RPG's, is to remind them that Sports Fandom is one hobby that is HEAVILY reliant on stats. Anyone who has the determination to memorize their favorite player's yearly and career performance stats, can certainly understand why we would want to learn lots of rules, or Player Character stats.</p><p></p><p>More on this later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Henry, post: 554916, member: 158"] Shadowdancer: Consider the opinions in this post as equally worthless as all other internet opinions you have thus far been exposed to. :D But I do have some suggestions of things to try, if you think they might work. My wife also had a practical upbringing, and it has been recently over the past few years that I have managed to drag her out more into participating in hobbies that she likes. Most people have a hobby they enjoy, even if they don't particiapate in it, but a lot of times, practicalities in life force us to drop them for a time; sometimes, the dropping becomes permanent, and it forces a big chunk of what makes us unique from others, out fo our lives. The trick is to NOT let it happen, but if it does, patience and understanding of others who care about us are necessary to encourage us to pick it back up. Your wife loves sports, aparently a lot. One thing I have always brought up to sports fans who do not understand RPG's, is to remind them that Sports Fandom is one hobby that is HEAVILY reliant on stats. Anyone who has the determination to memorize their favorite player's yearly and career performance stats, can certainly understand why we would want to learn lots of rules, or Player Character stats. More on this later. [/QUOTE]
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