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<blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 4513685" data-attributes="member: 18832">Your examples are really weird and don't reflect the kind of relationship I have with my wife.First, I don't really have this concept of a &quot;night with the guys&quot; in my social life. For the last ten years or so, ever since I left high school, I have been close friends with both men and women, with a small but noticeable preference for close female friends over close male friends. I don't have a group of &quot;the guys&quot; with whom I would want to spend time without women, and I certainly wouldn't choose to put together an all-male gaming group by deliberate choice. I try to have a gender-balanced group for the games I run, at least as much because I want to give the generally less-experienced female gamers I know more chances to play as for the simple sake of balance.(A related fact is that I don't have a &quot;regular gaming group&quot; - every game in which I've played or which I have run has been put together from the wider social circle of which I'm a part. There's a certain amount of player overlap, but I have never played in a game which had entirely the same player roster as another game.)Second, my wife is a gamer and I am delighted by that fact. Gaming is a huge hobby for me, and the fact that she enjoys it as well is really cool and helps strengthen our relationship. She doesn't play in all of the games in which I play, nor will she be part of every game I run (mostly because sometimes I'll run games in which she's not interested), but the fact that she does play alongside me is great.So, yeah, you're pretty much posting from Bizarro World as far as I'm concerned. I don't get this &quot;gaming night is for guys only&quot; thing at all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mhacdebhandia, post: 4513685, member: 18832"] Your examples are really weird and don't reflect the kind of relationship I have with my wife. First, I don't really have this concept of a "night with the guys" in my social life. For the last ten years or so, ever since I left high school, I have been close friends with both men and women, with a small but noticeable preference for close female friends over close male friends. I don't have a group of "the guys" with whom I would want to spend time without women, and I [b]certainly[/b] wouldn't choose to put together an all-male gaming group by deliberate choice. I try to have a gender-balanced group for the games I run, at least as much because I want to give the generally less-experienced female gamers I know more chances to play as for the simple sake of balance. (A related fact is that I don't have a "regular gaming group" - every game in which I've played or which I have run has been put together from the wider social circle of which I'm a part. There's a certain amount of player overlap, but I have never played in a game which had entirely the same player roster as another game.) Second, my wife is a gamer and I am delighted by that fact. Gaming is a huge hobby for me, and the fact that she enjoys it as well is really cool and helps strengthen our relationship. She doesn't play in all of the games in which I play, nor will she be part of every game I run (mostly because sometimes I'll run games in which she's not interested), but the fact that she does play alongside me is great. So, yeah, you're pretty much posting from Bizarro World as far as I'm concerned. I don't get this "gaming night is for guys only" thing [b]at all[/b]. [/QUOTE]

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