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Anonymous wrote:We’re a board game/card game family and thankfully DH prefers it over his chit chat family.

I’d prefer a chit chat family, a sports game family, or a board game/card family.

Instead we’re at the in-laws right now and every night when the sun goes down, FIL turns a movie on. And then another. Then goes to bed at 9:30pm.

Tv shows 5-9pm every day for a week sux. Even the kids are bored for the second one.

Sorry, they sound like extreme screen addicts and introverts.

Sports is early to watch, cheer, talk, socialize, eat, drink.
Then do the sit down meal before or after, then dessert and team board games!

We do it all, fun!

Anonymous wrote:Much better than marrying into a professional sports-watching-obsessed family. So freaking boring and one-dimensional.

I prefer sports, wine and good chat.

No! Thank god.

Thank god no. Once made a mistake a accepted a board game night dinner, thought it’ll be like book club 15 minutes of board game and the rest drinking, but the hosts were serious about their board games 😂

^ great post! np here.
Op, maybe you can divide your board-game-duty with someone. Only play half the time.
Or knit!

I took up knitting. I can still be in the room, participate in conversations, generally be social (unlike if I was reading a book or something), but I'm doing my own thing. I've literally knit sweaters for everyone in my extended/in-law family over the 5+ years of spending Christmas week with them every year.

Anonymous wrote:Much better than marrying into a professional sports-watching-obsessed family. So freaking boring and one-dimensional.

I’d much prefer this to board games.

Anonymous wrote:Much better than marrying into a professional sports-watching-obsessed family. So freaking boring and one-dimensional.

We have a sports area, and a game/cards area.

Still one SIL does not like either. She sits in another room reading a magazine or book, or walks home. We've tried incorporating her into the action, but neither are her thing. That's fine.

I just can't imagine not having games to keep people busy, and conversation flowing.

Anonymous wrote:We play rummikub. It’s fun.

My in-laws do scrabble, bananagrams and everything else and it’s awful. These are super smart, highly educated wealthy women who don’t work and waaaaay too much pride is riding on these games! Plus nobody can really drink, since we must keep our wits about us for after dinner warfare. Too stressful.

Cute humblebrag.

I thought I had it bad marrying into a board game family until I visited friends who are a party game family.

Better moving little counters around and consulting the rulebook than being expected to whoop and yell over who said the taboo word or whatever.

Anonymous wrote:Much better than marrying into a professional sports-watching-obsessed family. So freaking boring and one-dimensional.

AMEN! I come from a board game family and I would much rather do that or play cards than to have to watch the endless stream of baseball and golf that goes on at my ILs.

Much better than marrying into a professional sports-watching-obsessed family. So freaking boring and one-dimensional.

We always mix up the different games and it's a fun mix between large group ones, smaller group games that certain people enjoy or card games. We don't pressure our force anyone to play though. If someone doesn't want to, none of us could really care less. We're happy to play by ourselves. But it's not like that's all we do when we get together.

We used to play co tube tail rummy while drinking. It was really fun until that year the men got weirdly competitive. Now we don’t.

I should start a girls/ kids only version this year to restart the fun.