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Very true words, Brad. Happened to my brother--his wife didn't like all his airline models, books, photos, various & sundry memorabilia, etc. in every nook and cranny and the marriage lasted 18 months. Probably explains why I'm not married--GFs are always trying get me to drink less beer [burrrrrrp].

Cheers,
CC

My daughter calls it playing "Ding-Ding" because of the ships bell sound when loading a game.
 
My wife calls it "A Ding-A-Ling playing Ding-Ding."
 
My girls are so smart and perceptive[:D].
 

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

I had a friend in college whose girlfriend gave him an ultimatum: either wargames or her. He chose her. Eight years later she divorced him and took him to the cleaners. It seems to me that he made the wrong choice.

Anytime your mate resents your hobbies is not a good situation. Typically to me that means that you made a bad choice in a mate... she didn't fall in love with you, she fell in love with who she wanted you to be.

That was very sage advice, sir.


You have a really high IQ, don't you?


[;)][:D]

ORIGINAL: EUBanana

My other half refers to WITP as "the bee game", because of the hex map looking like a honeycomb. [:D][:D][:D]

Some are bewildered by hexagons, others find NATO symbology overwhelming. [;)]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

I had a friend in college whose girlfriend gave him an ultimatum: either wargames or her. He chose her. Eight years later she divorced him and took him to the cleaners. It seems to me that he made the wrong choice.

Anytime your mate resents your hobbies is not a good situation. Typically to me that means that you made a bad choice in a mate... she didn't fall in love with you, she fell in love with who she wanted you to be.

That was very sage advice, sir.


You have a really high IQ, don't you?


[;)][:D]

Nawww... I just play someone who does on TV. [;)]

Wife is just happy I am not out at the bars or whoring it up....

Besides, she reads lame romance novels anyways....

We have an 8mth old, and I rarely have time for anything but him anyways.... he is a blast btw... but I miss storming accross the Pacific...

ORIGINAL: Shellshock

ORIGINAL: EUBanana

My other half refers to WITP as "the bee game", because of the hex map looking like a honeycomb. [:D][:D][:D]

Some are bewildered by hexagons, others find NATO symbology overwhelming. [;)]

[:D]

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

ORIGINAL: Trekkie

Nice topic [:D] With wife and small daughter, it´s really hard to play at home. Fortunately, I spend quite a lot of time in the train while commuting to the job so...Sometimes it´s funny to watch other people trying to realize what the hell I´m doing on that computer [:)]. Oh, and nights in hotels when I have some meeting or conference abroad are dedicated to gaming as well.

I was playing WITP on my laptop while flying to Honolulu several years ago. A very nice lady form the midwest was sitting next to me and kept glancing over at my screen during the several hours I was working on turn one. Finally she turned to me and asked: "You have a very high IQ, don't you?"

How do you respond to such a question??? I fumbled through a self-effacing response of some sort...

aaaaahhh...

my daily dose of hysteria. You guys crack me up.

My wife calls it "Geeky Gaming" and has asked me to promise not to teach it to our daughter, but otherwise she just asks politely if I am winning.

I don't recall if I have at some point agreed not to teach WiTP AE to our 1 year old daughter...

ORIGINAL: Wirraway_Ace

My wife calls it "Geeky Gaming" and has asked me to promise not to teach it to our daughter, but otherwise she just asks politely if I am winning.

I don't recall if I have at some point agreed not to teach WiTP AE to our 1 year old daughter...

Wait...you don't make diving airplane sounds or explosion sounds during combat replay do you...because that would be seriously geeky. "YEEEEEEEEEEOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW BOOOOOOOSH!"

You know, that kind of thing.

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Wirraway_Ace

My wife calls it "Geeky Gaming" and has asked me to promise not to teach it to our daughter, but otherwise she just asks politely if I am winning.

I don't recall if I have at some point agreed not to teach WiTP AE to our 1 year old daughter...

Wait...you don't make diving airplane sounds or explosion sounds during combat replay do you...because that would be seirously geeky. "YEEEEEEEEEEOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW BOOOOOOOSH!"

You know, that kind of thing.

Now you tell me!

ORIGINAL: Wirraway_Ace

My wife calls it "Geeky Gaming" and has asked me to promise not to teach it to our daughter, but otherwise she just asks politely if I am winning.

I don't recall if I have at some point agreed not to teach WiTP AE to our 1 year old daughter...

One of my co-workers asked if I was winning my game. I told him "I don't know. Ask me again in three years."

"Three years??!!!"

They just don't understand...

Brad,

After receiving similar questions, I've just assumed the positive. "Yes, I'm winning. Handily." Like Tokyo Rose, who cares if it's real? Certainly not the people asking me the question. [:D]

I always reply that it isn't winning or loosing that is important, but the path in getting there.
 
Then they say "AHH!  So you are loosing!"
 
They just don't understant......

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

ORIGINAL: Wirraway_Ace

My wife calls it "Geeky Gaming" and has asked me to promise not to teach it to our daughter, but otherwise she just asks politely if I am winning.

I don't recall if I have at some point agreed not to teach WiTP AE to our 1 year old daughter...

One of my co-workers asked if I was winning my game. I told him "I don't know. Ask me again in three years."

"Three years??!!!"

They just don't understand...

Haha... yesss

Ummm, my girlfriend doesn't know I play this game. Yet. We don't live together. I hide the gaming laptop when she's around. This is bad, I know.

The trouble is, when do you tell them you play a game that takes years to finish?

It's hard enough getting someone to understand a game that takes 12 hours to finish.

At present I am enjoying my secret.

ORIGINAL: obvert

Ummm, my girlfriend doesn't know I play this game. Yet. We don't live together. I hide the gaming laptop when she's around. This is bad, I know.

The trouble is, when do you tell them you play a game that takes years to finish?

It's hard enough getting someone to understand a game that takes 12 hours to finish.

At present I am enjoying my secret.

I have enough trouble making people understand when I say there might be, possibly, probably, "nothing happening" in a game I play for 5 minutes or longer. Let alone 80-minute online sorties in Il-2, or some "stupid map game that takes 2 years to finish when nothing happens". [:D]

ORIGINAL: obvert

Ummm, my girlfriend doesn't know I play this game. Yet. We don't live together. I hide the gaming laptop when she's around. This is bad, I know.

The trouble is, when do you tell them you play a game that takes years to finish?

It's hard enough getting someone to understand a game that takes 12 hours to finish.

At present I am enjoying my secret.

If you decide to take things to the next level, take it from someone who learned the hard way--make sure she knows. Knows it all. The time committment, the mind committment, the outside reading, the forum time. That she knows it's one of, or your only, main hobby. That it can take significant weekend hours, making girlfriends necessary for garden shows, dog shows, aimless shopping trips, and celebrity gossip. That it will cut into your availablity for co-watching stupid TV and/or chick flicks.

My ex and I played "Might and Magic I" on my trusty AppleIIe. She even kept a 3-ring binder of notes ("Sprites can kick your ass!") while I manned the keyboard. However, once we got married computer games became "stupid" and she wanted to know why I wouldn't take up golf, since that was "useful" in advancing a career.

Number 2 understands. I have hidden nothing. Our computers are in the same room (with the Tivo), and she can do her online thing and/or watch the Tivo, while I play AE and watch TV with one eye. (No sound in AE but it's a minor sacrifice.) Sometimes she'll look at the map and ask "Where is that?" "Tassafaronga," I'll say, and she says "Huh", and we continue to watch "Glee" or a home-improvement show.

And she for sure thinks golf is "stupid." Farm girl, knows acreage like that is for soybeans and sugar beets, not gopher holes.

Just be very careful. Don't invest too much time in her before She Knows. [:)]

ORIGINAL: Shellshock

ORIGINAL: EUBanana

My other half refers to WITP as "the bee game", because of the hex map looking like a honeycomb. [:D][:D][:D]

Some are bewildered by hexagons, others find NATO symbology overwhelming. [;)]

[:D][:D][:D]

My wife knows and has always known. She thinks its stupid. Her romance novels are stupid. We agree to disagree. It is my hobby during the winter while she reads. During the summer I rarely play it and we do stuff outside. She would hang out with us at the dorms in college while we played games and she'd....read. That is her thing. We do plenty of other things together, and I find my self spending less and less time on the computer, and I am ok with that.

Just so long as she knows and is ok with it, you're fine.