Trying to create fun inexpensive things to do with GF but she wont cooperate

jess1974

whats wrong with just watching tv together in the evenings, or sitting in the garden having a glass of wine, thats all we ever seem to have the energy to do these days...

VfM4meplse

Life is just to short to waste it on games. It's not as if you're learning a new skill, more feeding a compulsion. And whilst your feeding it, you're ignoring your OH. Hardly a recipe for successful relationship!

Lotus-eater

If it's a real post, which I doubt
Then you need to find something you both like, doesn't matter what it is. I'm into fantasy stuff, but if my OH tried to get me to play that game, she'd find out pretty soon what I thought about it! :rotfl:

We like the odd game of chess and crib is a good game. Yahtzee is also good the odd time, we do a few rows at once, makes it more interesting.

Personally I couldn't be in the same room with Eastenders or any other soap being on, my brain stops working around them, but if you can, then I suggest you tell her to go upstairs and put on something you like, then she can walk around and watch her terrible progs while you just enjoy the view. And if she complains it's too cold, turn up the heating tightwad! lol

split_second

i *think* i get where the o.p is coming from

mtg came out a few years back, i remember it coming out and some guys i knew through college got really into it, i never understood it and our group drifted apart. they were the sort of w.o.w sorts (i wasnt) but there would be women there as well, albeit the sort of women that love sci-fi etc.

i get the point though, cheap nights in with partner

Oldernotwiser

thorsoak wrote: »

BTW - how many children does a couple have to produce before they refer to each other as something more than G/F or B/F????

On the other hand, better than the ubiquitous "partner" which seems to cover every relationship from a 40 year pseudo marriage to someone a 15 year old's been dating for a week!

Oldernotwiser

Why has nobody suggested that they just sit and talk to each other?

Lotus-eater

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

On the other hand, better than the ubiquitous "partner" which seems to cover every relationship from a 40 year pseudo marriage to someone a 15 year old's been dating for a week!

Not to me, partner is much nicer than GF and means you are more committed. Sounds like you're just upset the imaginary people aren't married.

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Why has nobody suggested that they just sit and talk to each other?

What and not talk about sex somewhere on a thread? :rotfl:

SandC

If you have to sit and think of things to do with your GF to keep you occupied, then I think the relationship is lacking something!

Oldernotwiser

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Not to me, partner is much nicer than GF and means you are more committed. Sounds like you're just upset the imaginary people aren't married.

As I said, "partner"'s now a term used by teenagers who've only been dating for a couple of weeks, so it's lost the meaning of commitment that it once had.

(Not sure where "nicer" comes into it, though.)

LittleMissAspie

This is one of the nastiest !!!!!iest threads I've read here in a long time.

If my boyfriend* wanted me to try a card game I would. Then I'd decide if it was boring or not. There's nothing more boring or life-wasting than sitting there staring at the TV all evening not wanting to try anything new.

*I guess by using the term boyfriend I'm not committed even though we've been together 10.5 years now.

Edit: Oh it's blocked my word out. I wrote b i t c h i e s t.