Was just admiring my girlfriend's aptitude at Skyrim on the PS3 as I went downstairs half an hour ago and just thinking how lucky I am to have someone who not only puts up with my habit, but also enjoys gaming. I've had girlfriends in the past who saw gaming as a kid's toy/something for antisocial nerds/something that takes attention away from them.

To be honest, Skyrim is about the only thing that both I and my girlfriend enjoy playing, so we rarely get to actually game together (unless me being on my Vita or Android tablet and her on the PS3 counts as gaming together), but anyone else had the good fortune to have a soulmate that enjoys gaming, not just tolerates it?

I've got lucky too. Then again, we are mutual nerds for our fair share of geeky hobbies (in a good way). My girlfriend is a PC gamer, so it's Skyrim all the way there, although she owns both the PS3 and Xbox. :D

My fiancee plays Xbox pretty exclusively. She's obsessed with Halo (reads the books and has a crush on Master Chief, to boot) and quite enjoyed Minecraft until she got stuck in a cave and couldn't find her way out :P. She also owns Saint's Row 3 (and plays as a girl with massive boobs, since in her own words "I don't know what it's like to have gigantic bazongas". She's more of a hip woman, you see.), Left 4 Dead, and a few other games that she hasn't really touched (Bioshock, Dead Rising, The Orange Box, Timeshift). She tried out Postal 2 the other day, and had a lot of fun with that as well (unlike me). She loves games a lot, but doesn't necessarily spend a huge amount of time playing them. And she puts up with my rants on the subject of videogames, so that's something...

We've learned to steer clear of doing competitive multiplayer together. She loves to win, but I'm better than her. It's best for our relationship if we stick to our own seperate games :3. We did have a lot of fun together a few nights ago running around SR3 as a fat naked man with pink hair, though. "Fear my plump naked body, citizens!"

Funnily enough, I met my husband while playing WoW! Since getting together, we've played quite a few games together such as Halo, COD BO, RE5 *360*, Diablo 3, and currently he's been addicted to Minecraft for the 360 and I go on to help explore caves and stuff while he build big ass castles and stuff.

My 1st husband wasn't much of a gamer; he only stuck to wrestling crap. After that relationship failed, I wanted someone to enjoy my passion with and oddly enough it was via a game, which I wasn't really expecting or trying to find someone.

Out of this relationship, I'm the bigger gamer. He enjoys a few games on Pc and a lot more on consoles - but not that much more. It feels great to have someone that I can at least enjoy my passion with, because where I live, gaming and gamers are a rare breed - or at least they hide it.

That's great. My gf doesn't game at all, which sucks.

That's pretty similar to my situation. :) My Ex-Wife was convinced that computers in general are "cold" and "lifeless" - she didn't object so much to gaming, as we had boardgame evenings with friends, but she couldn't imagine enjoying anything on a computer. I never understood what's so "warm" about the myriad of badly acted TV shows that she enjoyed to watch, but to each his own ... I guess we mostly lived in different worlds with regard to entertainment, which probably contributed to the marriage not working out, though it wasn't the main reason.

My current partner (well, "current" doesn't really nail it for someone you're living together with for a decade) is as much a computer nerd as I am. She enjoys gaming - in fact at met her at a gaming environment. However, like you, we rarely play together, since our tastes in gaming do differ. But we like to share our experiences, talk about interesting things that happened in the games we are playing, etc.

I don't think my boyfriend has ever even looked at a game, let alone played one. He does, however, love computers but he tends to spend hours fiddling around on the Internet or editing his humongous photo collection so he keeps himself busy that way while I do my own thing online or with games.

He's a guide for a travel company in Thailand so he spends a lot of time on the road showing Americans the country. Works out great for me as I'm incredibly independent and like to do my own thing -- that includes days at a time obsessed with one game which, if he was home all the time, would probably drive him nuts.

As it stands now, I try to do most of my longer gaming sessions while he's out of town so he can't complain. Then again, I'm not the type to give them up if he did complain. If I had to choose him or the games, it might not necessarily be him :)

Actually, he's really not the complaining type -- he's typically Thai, sweet, kind and patient so I doubt my gaming would ever bother him. He's too laidback for that.