dominate spouse during game night if you're intellectually superior?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I come from a family of men with phds in physics (particle; geo: member of multiple academies books papers etc) and math (with theorems named after them). They are (or were) in terrible marriages or perennially single. No social skills, no empathy, and in one case could be cuttingly cruel to anyone he thought was a waste of his precious time (including often his wife). I’m sure my summa cum laude ba/phd in humanities seem stupid and pointless to them but at least I’m in a harmonious marriage without contempt for my spouse (who shockingly only has a ba).

I come from a family with a man who was a tenured professor of science and published author. His wife got a degree in humanities, a law degree, while emotionally abusing him and cheating on him with the same person and "ending the affair" twice and recommitting before finally agreeing to divorce to be with her boyfriend.

Anecdotes are fun.

You just reinforced PP’s point: Being highly educated doesn’t make you a good spouse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, your contempt for your wife is ugly.

There's no mercy in Scrabble.

+1000

My family refuses to play scrabble or bananagrams with me because I always win.

That’s ok, we play other games instead 😊

Alternatively - you handicap yourself. You don't even have to let them *know* that you're handicapping yourself, depending on the exact situation - and perhaps also depending on the game you are playing. Can't play words longer than five letters (or, alternatively, shorter than five letters), must use a "u" before you use an "e", whatever.

[Anonymous]

How is it possible for her to lose that much at ticket to ride? That's the larger question here. Does she understand how to play?

OP how is she playing?

[Anonymous]

How intellectually inferior does OP think I am if I don’t play scrabble and I have no idea what ticket to ride is?

Do you losers sit around doing couples game night every weekend?

[Anonymous]

My husband always beats me at chess. I always beat him at scrabble and backgammon. So we are well matched as long as we always play scrabble or backgammon : )

[Anonymous]

I am also really good at Scrabble because I've played it for many years, used to play a lot with my mom who had a genius level IQ so she was challenging. RIP

Now I play Wordfeud online with friends, family members and in an organized tournament, I've been doing that for over ten years. It's fun, challenging and entertaining. Nobody gets upset either.

OP just play your word games online, which it sounds like maybe you already do since you know all the little tricks and strategies that all the rest of us know who play these games regularly.

Stop using your wife to build up your ego at her expense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is it possible for her to lose that much at ticket to ride? That's the larger question here. Does she understand how to play?

OP how is she playing?

I kind of want to know OP’s Ticket to Ride strategies.

Also, which character do you choose in Root?

[Anonymous]

You know there are a lot of cooperative games, OP.

Maybe you need to get “Pandemic” or one of those “Escape the Room” games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How intellectually inferior does OP think I am if I don’t play scrabble and I have no idea what ticket to ride is?

Do you losers sit around doing couples game night every weekend?

Yes we losers sit around having fun with our spouses instead of being bitter on the Internet.

[Anonymous]

I think it is very infantilizing and condescending to let another adult win. Everyone should play the best they can and likely will have different strengths in different games.

It isn’t the big gotcha you think it is and an adult crying over not winning is also pathetic.