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[quote=Anonymous]OP, based on your post, I get the impression that this happens to you frequently. Certainly often enough that you are very intensely angry about it.

So, OP, you need to start socializing with new people who are not going to suggest board games as part of any group gathering.

I'm not being snarky or facetious here, I really mean it. Make friends for whom this isn't an activity they're going to suggest.

When the game lovers are your family, it should be even easier to decline as they go ahead--they're family and anyone should be able to tell family, "Hey, you know that's not my thing. I'm going to go read/check out what's on TV in the other room" or "I'll hang over here with my phone/a book/the kids, you go ahead without me." Bow out and don't engage in any back-and-forth about it; let them label you as "cousin who doesn't do games" because, well, you are, and that's fine! Let them play and just go to another room or sit nearby and do whatever, and if they press you -- yeah, exit the room.

But with friends, you can choose your friends. If you have gaming friends, then see those people only when you're all going out to, say, a movie or show, and not when it's a gathering at someone's home. If you keep going to friend gatherings and they keep playing games and you continue to be stressed every time, well, that's on you, at that point; if you're pretty assured there will be games, but you still attend, you are just placing yourself where you'll be miserable. [/quote]

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