Comments on: Blood Games at Home

By: Anne Gibert

Anne Gibert — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:28:35 +0000

I have never had any luck at all playing games with husbands. I started playing chess with my first, but as soon as I read one chess book I could beat him. He wouldn’t read a chess book, so we had to give up playing. Even though I’m not much good at games, my present husband is so hopeless at all of them that there would be no point.

By: ruthpennebaker

ruthpennebaker — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:31:08 +0000

We’ve played mixed doubles in tennis and partners in games like Trivial Pursuit. It’s fun, oddly enough. But then other people aren’t always around, so we have to play each other.

By: Duchess

Duchess — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:11:21 +0000

Have you ever found out what would happen if you guys played together? Mixed doubles? Partners at bridge? I reckon that’s a real marriage test.

By: ruthpennebaker

ruthpennebaker — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:18:39 +0000

Can’t believe I didn’t think of the more educated sense of the word. We’re both oldest children, so it’s all about winning for us — but I agree: why play a game if it’s no fun?

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:35:08 +0000

I know the porno connotations to “cum”, but the word can also be used in polite company, according to my Webster’s:
“With; combined with; along with, i.e., a garage-cum-workshop”
Yes, odd as all get out and so grates on my word consciousness, but in the issue of fairness (as a middle child, it’s all about the fairness), I must throw this out there.
I refuse to play games with my husband’s family – it truly isn’t fun so I bow out.

By: ruthpennebaker

ruthpennebaker — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:59:05 +0000

Maybe he’s trying to spare you.

By: kenju

kenju — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:09:37 +0000

HILARIOUS!! And I have always wished taht my husband would play games with me – but he won’t. I have a feeling if he did, the result would be just as you described.

By: ruthpennebaker

ruthpennebaker — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 05:08:11 +0000

Paula — Anybody who comes up with rules about relationships is a liar. Hang in there.

By: Paula Burney

Paula Burney — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:05:06 +0000

Ruth,
I never get tired of reading this. You crack me up! I just hope that one day before I die, I get to have a relationship with a decent guy. Whoever said, “Third time’s a charm” is a liar.
You know, I refuse to play games like that with the guys I’ve met because I have beginner’s luck and they are sore losers.

By: ruthpennebaker

ruthpennebaker — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:52:31 +0000

Fortunately, we have no Scruples.

Mei -- Now is the perfect time to start laying down the law about games. After you're married, it's too late.