Saturday, 24 October 2009
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I Would Do Anything for Love...
... But I won't do that.
If you're like me, you're competitive. Even when playing board games or video games with your significant other.
It started on my gf's (now wife's) birthday. We played Risk at her place...and I won. Whooped them all in world domination.Then it was at my place...a game of Connect Four...I won again. She got so mad, she asked my 5-year-old sister for something to throw at me. (No, not that, something soft.)
And, after years of playing games with her, I've realized that I'm a lot more competitive-aggressive than she is. (Part of it is that I had a twin brother - so I was playing all-out against a comparable opponent, but she was 10 years older than any of her sibs - meaning she had to 'play nice' with her little brothers.)
We don't play chess anymore...I played it a lot growing up, she didn't...so I usually crush her...so we don't play it.
We have found a few games where it's really a fair matchup...Yahtzee...Risk (although she's won more of those recently)...a football board game (played last night, but she was getting tired, so a 0-0 halfway-through-first-quarter game was canceled).
I remember the one time I did 'let her win.' It became a huge argument because she thought she'd won fair and square, and I said, no, I was being easy on you...it was a total fiasco.
My brother and his gf (now his wife) have a Wii. And, one time when I was over at his place, I saw his profile and Steph's profile on one of the games, a racing game. I asked my brother how competitive they were. He said "somewhat competitive" - they both want to win, and they're both good at the game.I asked him if he'd ever "let her win". His response..."I would do anything for love...but I won't do that."
Are you competitive with your SO? Is there anything you wouldn't do for love?
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i don't let people win.
My boyfriend is also a twin, and I've noticed this competitiveness in him. He has this irrational desire to always out-do anyone, in any little way possible.
The problem that he has is that he is a sore winner. He's really good at a lot of things, but if I actually win he either says it was due to him not being on his A-Game. If he wins, I never hear the end of it--and neither do the next 5 people we encounter "I beat her sooooo bad at blah blah blah this morning..."
But I still love him.
We both have things that we're good at, so it's easy to be fair, not by letting one or the other win, but by taking turns playing things that one or the other is better at. For example, I always win at Singstar, always. After a few games of that we might play Left 4 Dead or Halo so he can kick my butt.
And I'm glad I'm not the only one who was channeling meatloaf when I saw the title of this post!
Hey hey, if you let someone win, you're not supposed to TELL them that!
It defeats the purpose.
I won't give up golf, season tickets to eagles-phillies, and the occasional boys night out. havn't given up playboy.. yet
lol i hate losing.
I'm not competitive... because I always lose lol. So I would end up getting to angry all the time. I just don't care very much.
Im a bad loser, I wont let my BF win without a fight ><
dude, what if the point of "letting her win", if you dont let her "win". It cancels the whole poin, there is no good ego about it.
Ive definately let my SO win some games, but I bit my tounge when the ego struck. In most occasions like that, its when I want him to have a good game because he has had a hard day.
@just_the_average_jane@xanga - beat me to the punch =)
when i was a kid, my parents never let me win. i had to earn it. everyone else should...just don't be a sore loser/winner. ^_^
I hate playing chess with my boyfriend because he always kicks my ass. It sucks because growing up I was always the best chess player I knew, I used to destroy my siblings and friends. Then I play with my boyfriend and get completely dominated. After losing to him multiple times I just gave up. I'm too proud to try again, lol.
Neither of us are competitive. We don't really care that much.
@MissPixieGlitter@xanga - Neither do I.
Hm we're kind of competitive, I guess. We both want to win, and we don't let each other win. It's all for fun though..At the beginning of our relationship when I'd lose a game he'd apologize. I'd be like you're not supposed to apologize, it's a game! So now we jokingly tease each other saying we're gonna win and whatnot. I don't care about that kinda stuff..It's just fun.
My boyfriend and I don't play much games together because we're both sore losers. The only games we would play together are those that require teamwork, like Little Big Planet.
my SO NEVER lets me win. but at least it lets me know that when i ALMOST kick his ass in the games + sports that we DO play, its because im good - not because he's easy. <3
haha i would never let anyone win, or would ever want a boyfriend of mine to let me win. it would take the fun out of it. as long as nobody's a sore loser it's fine.
Funny, I'd eat a worm to get my soul mate, but I can't even speak up around guys I'm interested in. Dammit!
hahaha. i love that phrase. its so funny. it just shows how competitiveness and winning is so important to people.
i mean i dont usually let people win o.O a lot of times i'm really competitive
Rofl, I'm very competitive too, but I'm definitely not a sore loser. If my boyfriend won, I was always cool with it. The thing is, he WAS kind of a sore loser, so I would let him win every once in a while if he hadn't in a while, lol. And I was actually a good girlfriend about it, not telling him or anything... Sheesh, it's just a game, after all, and if it makes him happy to win then I'm cool with making him happy. I just think it's not a very smart move to be so aggressive about winning or bitchy about losing (in that you tell the other person you let them win), because that might end up reflecting on your relationship.
haha i think that i can be.. lol
We totally areeee. He wins a helluva lot though, we stopped playing Stratego because I would barely lose a lot and it frustrated me too much. XD
I don't let people win, regardless of their status with me. Bring your 'A' game or expect to be taunted all the way home.
I hate losing so I mentally pretend that it's a life-or-death match... xD (I'm twisted aren't I?!)