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mythos
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Let me start with this disclaimer, by no means do I wish to break up with my wife or cheat on her in any way. This is merely a conundrum that i don't know how to solve.
My wife and I do a lot of things together that we love; hiking, watching old terrible shows, swing dancing and playing board games.
However, as much as my wife tries, she can't get into playing video games. Every time we play something she complains about not knowing the controls and ends up wanting to quit very quickly. She will only play simple games and once she learns something, she doesn't want to play anything else.
She also hates games that are violent or she has heard rumors about. Like GTA, World of Warcraft or anything that resembles those games. She doesn't like games that require her to solve puzzles or learn difficult controls. She will basically just put her controller down and sulk. I've tried so many games, from survival games to shooters to RPGs to platformers to Diablo-likes. She doesn't like to wait or read or watch cutscenes. She promises to play with me, but when we play she sulks and complains.
I am bad at making friends and I really like playing coop games with girls who like girl avatars. Whenever there is a character creator, my wife makes the ugliest character possible in protest.
I do a lot to make her happy. I am against institutionalized marriage, yet I married her and we had a really nice wedding. I like swing dancing, but she is obsessed with it. I go swing dancing with her every weekend that we are free and I have fun. She hates cooking and driving, I make her dinner every night and drive her almost everywhere, even on extended trips. For short trips we always listen to her music, and for long trips we split between listening to her music and listening to my podcasts or audiobooks (which she likes too). I like listening to the news and talk shows while driving, but she can't stand them and would rather sit in silence.
I have gone for long stints of not asking her to play games with me and she eventually notices we spend less time together and asks if I want her to play games with me. We play and then she sulks and stop. I don't ask her to play again for a few weeks.
What should I do? Should I just grin and bear it? Is it wrong for me to look for a girl online who would like playing games with me? Even still, I wouldn't know where to look.
Any advice?
My wife and I do a lot of things together that we love; hiking, watching old terrible shows, swing dancing and playing board games.
However, as much as my wife tries, she can't get into playing video games. Every time we play something she complains about not knowing the controls and ends up wanting to quit very quickly. She will only play simple games and once she learns something, she doesn't want to play anything else.
She also hates games that are violent or she has heard rumors about. Like GTA, World of Warcraft or anything that resembles those games. She doesn't like games that require her to solve puzzles or learn difficult controls. She will basically just put her controller down and sulk. I've tried so many games, from survival games to shooters to RPGs to platformers to Diablo-likes. She doesn't like to wait or read or watch cutscenes. She promises to play with me, but when we play she sulks and complains.
I am bad at making friends and I really like playing coop games with girls who like girl avatars. Whenever there is a character creator, my wife makes the ugliest character possible in protest.
I do a lot to make her happy. I am against institutionalized marriage, yet I married her and we had a really nice wedding. I like swing dancing, but she is obsessed with it. I go swing dancing with her every weekend that we are free and I have fun. She hates cooking and driving, I make her dinner every night and drive her almost everywhere, even on extended trips. For short trips we always listen to her music, and for long trips we split between listening to her music and listening to my podcasts or audiobooks (which she likes too). I like listening to the news and talk shows while driving, but she can't stand them and would rather sit in silence.
I have gone for long stints of not asking her to play games with me and she eventually notices we spend less time together and asks if I want her to play games with me. We play and then she sulks and stop. I don't ask her to play again for a few weeks.
What should I do? Should I just grin and bear it? Is it wrong for me to look for a girl online who would like playing games with me? Even still, I wouldn't know where to look.
Any advice?