[OT, cute] Loving your geek, tolerating his hobbies

[Angcuru]

The only thing left out of the article (maybe for good reason) is how geekdom can be contagious! As my converted GF can attest

so how long and arduous was that process?

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

My girlfriend came pre-geeked up.

Okay, so I'm entirely too happy about the fact...

 

[thatdarncat]

My girlfriend came pre-geeked up.

Okay, so I'm entirely too happy about the fact...

Same here Wouldn't have met her otherwise, who expects to meet their soulmate in a D&D chat room?

Love you Seri-sama!

 

[Seri]

Hi lo


yeah yeah, geeks together, geeks forever

the real challenge is getting my into anime, I've got you beat in the mini category.

All I can say is that being a female geek made it easier to find a guy, this way I got the best geek I could find weeeeeeeeeee thatdarncat

 

[Henry]

What's funny is that my wife follows this same advice to a "T" However, it took us several years of hard going when we first met to get to that quiet state of understood Nirvana. Where was this article then!?!?!

But then, if it had been around, would it have been heeded? Some things in a marriage people just need to figure out through hard experience - like what side of the bed is preferred, what the spouse's favorite old movie is, what calendar dates NOT to forget, and why Mark Hamill is a good actor until 1983, and at no point after that.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

Same here Wouldn't have met her otherwise, who expects to meet their soulmate in a D&D chat room?

Love you Seri-sama!

Heh. Who expects to meet their's in a Star Trek PBEM either? Gamer girls hang in the weirdest places.....Namely, where we do!

 

[MadScientist]

so how long and arduous was that process?

Well...

Step 1- Meet girl, do best to hide geekdom. (No game books lying around, have conversations about 'normal' stuff)
Step 2- AFTER she is soundly infatuated with you, slowly reveal geek nature.
Step 3- After she realizes she is dating a geek, reveal that all of your friends, who she thinks are cool, are actually geeks.
Step 4- Plan geeky activities with your geeky friends that she likes. Since she doesn't want to be left out, she must try your geek hobbies.
Step 5- Girlfriend slowly becomes geek basicaly by association

The process has been years in the making. Of course my relationship with her has been one joyess moment after the next! Never arduous..... never....

 

[LcKedovan]

The process has been years in the making. Of course my relationship with her has been one joyess moment after the next! Never arduous..... never....

Who else can tell she also reads ENWorld?

-W.

 

[mythago]

I liked the article, but what happens when geek meets geek? No one to stop you from spending, table covered in minis, time to spend alone on your geek hobby now spent with another geek....

Ah, but not two geeks are *exactly* alike. So one of you will be covering the table with Napoleonic miniatures while the other one grumbles that there's no room left for the Zulus. And one of you gets invited to a game because the group really needs a paladin, but the other geek is more into playing happy elf rangers.

Otherwise, you end up having to take turns. Constantly. "Honey, where did you leave my Monster Manual? And isn't it MY turn to play Dark Age of Camelot?"

 

[Stormfalcon]

And isn't it MY turn to play Dark Age of Camelot?"

Another advantage of geeks dating fellow geeks: one can build the other their own gaming PC so they can both play together.