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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SemperJase" data-source="post: 948773" data-attributes="member: 1824">A previous point about recruiting rather than looking for a gamer worked for me. When we first met, my wife thought gamers were a bunch of socially inept, eccentric, ugly guys rolling dice and saying things like "magic missle". Of course she was right <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Actually, when we first got together, I didn't even mention my gaming desires (I wasn't in a group at the time). Not long after we moved in together, my secret horde of gaming material was found. She thought it was strange and didn't exactly believe me that "normal" people played. One night the group met at our house to play. It was a total flop because she kept coming in the room. OK, sometimes I'm slow. In hindsight, its obvious she kept interrupting because she wanted to be invited. Not because she was into fantasy, but she wanted to try something I enjoy. A year later, I finally figured it out. I invited her to join in (the group agreed first although they weren't sure about a chic joining in). She liked it and the group did as well, so much that other women quickly joined. Now, my preference is to play a game my wife is involved in. Now my wife is involved in two games. She plays more than I do. For her its a great social outlet. Admittedly we are more hack-n-slash than acting centered. Recruiting worked for me.</blockquote>

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