I know this may sound silly, but my dh and I cannot play board games together. Maybe it is because we are both competitive. I don't know what it is. I love him like crazy, but I can't stand losing to him. Tonight I got so mad I flipped the board - lol! Maybe I need therapy!?

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Maureen - Mom to Daniel(21), Brandon(19), Jordan(13)PDD, Thomas(11), Carrie(7), Samuel(4) and Mark (2 - ds, av canal -repaired 6/10/08, pulmonary hypertension)
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Lol, i'm kinda like that too. I haven't flipped any boards yet but I can huff and sulk for ages after!

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Karen- Mum to the world's cutest baby!! Ben

i get mad if my hubby wins too. maybe it's because he's so nice about it. i can't play Risk anymore with him. he always wins and it makes me mad. he says, "don't worry. once i conquer you we can rule the world together." grrrrrr!

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We're not that competitive! We've both worked together for many years.

Why not try a big jigzaw....like 1000 pieces. We have done a few of those together and we love doing them. You get completely caught up in it! Helped us both switch off. We once did on of a place that we knew....that was fun!

Right now John is working from home so I have very little space to leave a 1000 piece jigsaw without Robert turning things upside down! LOL!
I tried at Christmas but gave up after putting it back together for the third time!

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Linda & John
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We are both laughing about it this morning - it probably didn't help that PMS is here !

Linda - jigsaw puzzles are a good idea and I love doing them, but hubby does not - he would lose interest in about 10 seconds. I think we will stick to our usual playing against the kids - it's works well that way - keeps them united which they need to be every once in a while . We also have a small collection of "cooperative" games. They're just not as fun as our favorites - backgammon and scrabble!

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I can't play games with my husband, either, for the same reason--we are both VERY competitive, and I HATE losing, too!

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Maresa,
Mom to Alisa (10-29-2008) DS, complete AV canal repair on 3-6-09

DH and I can play games - since our date night had to be at home while Clara was housebound we would play a board game with a no tv rule.

We cannot do projects together! He does not communicate well as part of a team, and if I tell him what I'm going to do (like I need to set this end down and move a chair) he gets weird & pissy. He also gets really wound up when we discuss where to put things and it takes all my strength not to let him turn simple things into a fight. I told him once that it was normal for couples to decide these things together, disagree nicely, than compromise and he said " I know. I hate it!" We also fight over whether he's a control freak!

It was not good when we had a business together.

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This is incredibly embarrassing...

...but, a few years ago, Mark and I were playing Monopoly...which is my game!. He beat me. Twice. We were snacking on a little bit of fresh Parmesan cheese, and I was so mad I threw it in the toilet!

We were enjoying some wine with our cheese and Monopoly. I shouldn't fail to mention that...

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" I know. I hate it!"

Anara - That is too funny! My father-in-law is like that too - I think it has something to do with control or it may be that he HATES taking orders from a woman!

Courtney - that is so funny - sounds like something I would do!

I was telling my husband I felt like a hypocrit(sp?) because I am always telling the kids "it's ok to lose" or "sometimes being a good loser is better than winning" - I need to take my own advice .

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Maureen - Mom to Daniel(21), Brandon(19), Jordan(13)PDD, Thomas(11), Carrie(7), Samuel(4) and Mark (2 - ds, av canal -repaired 6/10/08, pulmonary hypertension)
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Well if you need therapy, than so do I. I HATE playing games with Al. UGH just thinking of it boils me...lol.

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I was telling my husband I felt like a hypocrit(sp?) because I am always telling the kids "it's ok to lose" or "sometimes being a good loser is better than winning" - I need to take my own advice Embarassed .

I wouldn't worry too much about the kids.....I read once they know us better than we know ourselves!

I envy you all! Yes envy cos I have no competitive streak and concede too easily.
And I don't need my hubbie to tell me I'm a control freak.....I know I am!
I don't mind that so long as its me thats doing the telling and not John.
Him telling others pisses me off!......LOL!

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Linda & John
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This is a funny thread! I can get plenty mad, but not about board games, maybe because there were six kids in my family growing up, we played lots of board games and I lost a lot so I got a lot of practice losing. I've never turned a board over in anger or frustration, but I've done plenty of other silly things.

Maybe we should start a thread about what it is that your spouse does or says that can set you off in an instant. I'd have lots to add to that--LOL!!!

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I used to be very competitive but not so much now. I just work on the assumption that my hubby will win (he usually does) and so I don't get worked up. He is still very competitive. I bought him Risk a couple of years ago and we have an un spoken agreement that we will work together against everyone else to take over the world. So far we haven't played it to it's full conclusion where one of us gets wiped out but we have always wiped all our competition off the board. If it came to it I think he would win because he is good at strategy stuff and I don't have the energy to fight that hard.

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Karyn
Mum to Nikki (Jul 89), Stefanie (Sep 96), Joel [June 98] and Talitha (DS) (Nov 05) AVSD/PDA repaired 23 March 06

"I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well." Psalm 139:14

this is going to sound nuts, but I am the opposite. I acctually hate beating my husband at board games. He's all so proud that he's the game master, especially at cards...it's actually kind of cute. I have gone so far as to reverse cheat so he will win. If you need therapy then I definately need theripy!

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