MIL is a bad loser when playing board games

[Anonymous]

For example: last night we were all playing Monopoly Deal and my 8 year old traded a property for hers (allowed in Monopoly Deal) and she threw down her cards and said she was done. This isn't the first time similar behavior has jappened. My kids keep suggesting games, she keeps saying yes, but I can't take it anymore.

[Anonymous]

Dementia?

[Anonymous]

Same OP! We are all a little competitive, but my MIL will start name calling. And she has no ability to see when everyone else is OVER IT and has stopped having fun. She is just mean about it, and I hate it.

So: I stopped playing with her! If the kids want to play, I make my DH play with them and I am "busy" doing something else. If the kids aren't having fun, they'll stop asking her. If they are, maybe they aren't noticing she's a sore loser.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For example: last night we were all playing Monopoly Deal and my 8 year old traded a property for hers (allowed in Monopoly Deal) and she threw down her cards and said she was done. This isn't the first time similar behavior has jappened. My kids keep suggesting games, she keeps saying yes, but I can't take it anymore.

Start finding cooperative games to play.

[Anonymous]

Are you playing too? Just let them play. What’s the big deal. When your kids get tired of her behavior they’ll stop playing games with her —> good, natural-consequence lesson for all of them.

[Anonymous]

That's funny. My grandfather was the same. If he won he gloated and said "we're going to have to teach you how to play this game better" and if he lost he sulked and threw the pieces around.

I was 11 and I decided he was an asshole. And I was right.

[Anonymous]

Giving her the benefit of the doubt, it's possible that the modern versions of the games are off-putting (Monopoly Deal if she's used to Monopoly). Otherwise, I agree that cooperative games might be the way to go. We really like Forbidden Island.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For example: last night we were all playing Monopoly Deal and my 8 year old traded a property for hers (allowed in Monopoly Deal) and she threw down her cards and said she was done. This isn't the first time similar behavior has jappened. My kids keep suggesting games, she keeps saying yes, but I can't take it anymore.

OP including more information. She takes moves very personally. She swiped the board after Risk and spent the night in her bedroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For example: last night we were all playing Monopoly Deal and my 8 year old traded a property for hers (allowed in Monopoly Deal) and she threw down her cards and said she was done. This isn't the first time similar behavior has jappened. My kids keep suggesting games, she keeps saying yes, but I can't take it anymore.

OP including more information. She takes moves very personally. She swiped the board after Risk and spent the night in her bedroom.

Um, I would never play a board game with this person again. And if she asked why I would have no problem politely but firmly telling her why.

[Anonymous]

PP adding that I think a person this immature would probably be a nightmare even with cooperative games. Those generally involve the group agreeing on a strategy, and undoubtedly if the group didn't agree to play it EXACTLY the way MIL wanted to she would pout and sulk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For example: last night we were all playing Monopoly Deal and my 8 year old traded a property for hers (allowed in Monopoly Deal) and she threw down her cards and said she was done. This isn't the first time similar behavior has jappened. My kids keep suggesting games, she keeps saying yes, but I can't take it anymore.

OP including more information. She takes moves very personally. She swiped the board after Risk and spent the night in her bedroom.

Um, I would never play a board game with this person again. And if she asked why I would have no problem politely but firmly telling her why.

Wow! And +1 don’t play with her anymore. If she asks you tell her why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For example: last night we were all playing Monopoly Deal and my 8 year old traded a property for hers (allowed in Monopoly Deal) and she threw down her cards and said she was done. This isn't the first time similar behavior has jappened. My kids keep suggesting games, she keeps saying yes, but I can't take it anymore.

OP including more information. She takes moves very personally. She swiped the board after Risk and spent the night in her bedroom.

She's a bad loser. I'd never play with her again.

[Anonymous]

You need to play much shorter games. Monopoly, risk? I don't have patience for either of those games, and I'm 43.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For example: last night we were all playing Monopoly Deal and my 8 year old traded a property for hers (allowed in Monopoly Deal) and she threw down her cards and said she was done. This isn't the first time similar behavior has jappened. My kids keep suggesting games, she keeps saying yes, but I can't take it anymore.

OP including more information. She takes moves very personally. She swiped the board after Risk and spent the night in her bedroom.

Um, I would never play a board game with this person again. And if she asked why I would have no problem politely but firmly telling her why.

+1

[Anonymous]

Oof. Bringing back bad memories of what a sore loser I used to be at board games as a kid. I can't imagine why my parents and siblings continued to play with me. But, in my defense, I was a child and I've grown out of it. (Still don't do well with trash talking, though. It's UNO, FIL & MIL, you don't have to gloat!)