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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 1882169" data-attributes="member: 5100">My wife got into it, back in college, because it was a way to "hang out" with me (this was before we were dating -- I was not a negligent boyfriend).  It's been... um... 13ish years, now, and she plays because she likes the game.  I suspect that if I gave up gaming, she wouldn't pursue it, but she does it because it's fun for her. Her sister started gaming in college.  She's definitely in it for the game.  The fact that her fiancee is part of the group is a bonus, but I'm almost positive that she'd be in regardless. The third gal in the group is there for the social aspect, near as I can tell.  She joined after starting to date her (now) husband, but I'm pretty sure she would have been interested independent of him. Since my gaming group is synonymous with my core group of friends, it's hard to be sure who is there for the game and who is there because it's "what the group is doing".  I know we three guys are all pretty hardcore.  The gals tend to be rules-light, but that could be just a playing style rather than a show of interest. In the extended group of friends/gamer pool, there are some pretty hardcore women gamers.  One of them even got her boyfriend into the hobby before they broke up.</blockquote>