Topic: Do you have a Boyfriend/Girlfriend who isn't into gaming?

Mine's not really that into it. I however have always loved gaming. My lady likes to watch me play and once in a while she'll attempt to play a few rounds. Mostly really simple stuff. Anything that requires skill or patience and she gets bored or frustrated easily. In zelda games she'll run around the villages talking to people and cutting grass but when it's time for battles or dungeons she hands the controller over and says you do it. I've tried thinking of games she might enjoy, I guess she likes those puzzle games like the kind you play on your phone but a serious gamer she definitely isn't. It sucks having no one to share my gaming passion with. At least she doesn't try to tell me not to or put me down for it. That would be where i get off. Take me as i am or hit the road i say!

@Zeldafan79
Most of my family relatives are NOT gamers.
My cousins are mostly handphone /PC gamers.
My siblings are MMO PC and handphone gamers.
Only me that stick on Nintendo and Sony brand gaming.

@Zeldafan79 Yes. My fiancé is not into gaming at all! She does not like it But she manages it as I am waaaay too much into it.

But it does no get in the way of happiness.

Most of my gaming gifts are from her (Xbox One X, PS4 Pro, Nintendo Switch, 2 of my 3DS and my DS Lite and 2 of my Mini Classic consoles).

If I go back and have the choice of gaming GF or her I would always pick her

All you need a reasonable person next to you that simply loves you even if you are gaming freak

Nah, mine doesn’t. It’s for the best as it gives me something to do when she’s pissed and I’m hiding from her

@Zeldafan79 For the longest time, no. She'll try stuff here and there, but rarely will she actually play a game.

We beat Donut County together, alternating control each level, and it was nice because it was only 2 hours long. Especially nice because with a neck cradle, we could play it together in bed as we went to sleep.

Also, we've played two full games of Super Mario Party together, and she loves the minigames, but *$#!$# bot-Mario stole her stars and coins both times, and now she hates that game because she felt ripped off. And there's no option to turn it off! Come on Nintendo, what happened to your super guide?

We did however meet up with some friends recently, and I learned that she LOVES playing fighting games against couch opponents. Was very surprised at that, and even though we don't have a TV she brought up the possibility of buying one and a PS4/5 for Street Fighter V, Soul Calibur 6.

None of my family are gamers, but they don’t mind if I do.

My late husband of 35 years was never into gaming. Didnt stop the kids or me. Why would it? As the kids flew the nest I became a handheld gamer so he could have the tv.

One of the last things he did was make me promise to get myself a Switch with the small insurance payout after he died.

Being a couple doesn't mean you are joined at the hip. Different strokes for different folks, as they say.

But yeah: I had a good'un.

Well, I got my husband into gaming. It's really nice to play co-op with him. I would be really sad if my partner weren't into gaming at all

My wife is not into gaming much at all. She will play Dr. Mario or Tetris time to time, but even those not much.
Then we had kids that are all different types of gamers. The oldest isn't much into the kind of gaming I'm into as he's very much an online gamer. He's into Rocket League and online shooters with his friends. He was into Skyrim pretty heavy a while ago, so that was cool. The middle one has just started getting interested in the same kinds of games I am. She's currently working on BotW and loving it, which is awesome. The youngest is a Fortnite aficionado, which I can't get into at all. But I do watch her play sometimes. She also likes Minecraft and Portal Knights.
So, our house has 4 gamers and 1 non-gamer, pretty good ratio lol.

My gf who wasn't into games used to give me presidential activities when playing goldeneye or streetfighter to distract me. Now I'm happily married and my wife plays splatoon with me. But you can't play splatoon and give presidential activities at the same time. So you win some and lose some. Who cares if they're into games as long as you like the person.

6 girlfriends 7 of them arent into gaming

My wife is not really into gaming, but thankfully she supports me having it as a hobby. I can occasionally get her into stuff, but it's really random. She mostly doesn't like hyper-competitive games, so simple co-op or puzzle games are usually a safe bet. But she plays Tetris 99 a lot now even though that has a clear competitive aspect, she was somehow a beast at Splatoon 1, and every time we pass by an arcade she always wants to play Tekken. So it's really hard to predict if she's gonna like something or not, haha.

@klingki Bro, are you married to my girlfriend? Here it's the exact same except for the Splatoon part haha.

In the beginning of our relationship my girlfriend didn't like gaming at all, and she saw it as a childish hobby. As time past (~6 months) she started to realise how important it was to me for relaxation purposes, and that it was more than just a childish hobby. Gaming has a surprising depth to it, and after she realised that she started to join me from time to time. Now she's at the same level as Klingki's wife, except she plays puyo puyo tetris instead of tetris 99 haha.

Joke's on all of you. I've got no one because I'm too busy gaming. That's still hip, right?

My partner of 10 years hasn't really been into gaming since way back in the SNES days, whereas, I've basically been playing non-stop since I first got an NES. There's been a couple puzzle games that have held her interest, but rarely enough to play all the way to the ending.

We don't really have the same taste in music, movies, or any hobbies, really. When we were first dating, it was a concern that we didn't have too much overlap in our interests, and that it meant we wouldn't have much in common. But honestly, its never once been an issue.

We've all gotten too deep in a game to the point where it starts to eat away at our social lives... it happens. As long as you can work out a way so that your partner isn't feeling neglected, you should be in the clear. Just let them know ahead of time if some new release is going suck up a week of your attention span.

Not to sound like a bad Switch commercial, but it is nice to either have her read a book while I play on the TV, or play handheld on the couch while she watches some stuffy true crime documentary on Netflix.

We can binge watch Star Trek together, and that's all I ask.

@Cissero I certainly hope I'm not married to your girlfriend, lol!

But it's cool that you have a similar situation. It's really interesting to see how her attitude has changed over time, and how she can at least appreciate the medium now, even if she's not always super into it. And on the flip side, I've come to appreciate some of her hobbies more as well.

@klingki absolutely agree. Learning from each others hobbies and showing interestin what makes the other person excited. Signs of a healthy relationship indeed seeing the change appearing is a lovely thing for both sides.

Thanks to her I picked painting and sculpting up again, it's awesome

@Cissero that's right. I watch countless Hallmark movies to make my wife happy.

My last headache girlfriend wasn't, but then she wasn't really interested in participating in any activity that I held a strong personal interest in. Christ the number of times I patiently stood around while she tried on clothes (and offered constructive feedback on the outfits she had chosen)...

I remember I was once asked if I thought I was driving around in a game because I play game music on the CD player in my car. I wasn't even driving dangerously, it was just a stupid question out of the blue.

@sixrings Hey man, some of those Hallmark Mysteries shows are funny.