My husband and I are the same way-- he gets SO competitive if we play a board game or something. And I'm just like, whatever-- it's a GAME. You play to have fun and enjoy the company of others, not WIN. ;-)
My 10 year old son is so competitive but not in a sportsmanlike way. It's like, who do I have to step on, whose heart can I crush to win at this game of monopoly. Then my husband gets mad, sends him to room or puts the game away. This is why we can't play games together in my family. Meanwhile my daughter and I are just excited for our turn and hoping we can at least play one round.
Hilarious and relatable as always ladies! I pour myself a cup a coffee, dry the tears and keep momming on! Hey, could you maybe do a I self care so hard? A realistic look at how is moms can take care of ourselves?
We went to an isolated rainforest retreat for our honeymoon and one morning we played scrabble (a game which I had never lost) and my husband (Mr “hey babe, how do you spell -insert every word longer than 2 syllables in the English language-?) he won. But worse than that, he officially announced his retirement from the world of scrabble. This was not only the first time he had ever played, but he had beaten me at every game we ever played prior, including my most beloved game Monopoly and now here he is never going to give me the chance to win back my title... STUPID ARSE! I stormed back to bed and refused to talk to him until he apologised and revoked his retirement 😤😤😤 he wins almost everything he ever plays and I spent years cheering against him for whoever he would be competing against until it felt a bit like his little heart was getting a bit damaged from his wife and mother of his children only ever supported his sporting opponents.... then I was like ‘urgh fine, you can win some stuff too. Good job buddy’ bloody retire from scrabble on me will ya! 😡😤😂🤣🤣
Shannon O'Reilly OMG, I saw “scrabble” and “isolated rainforest” and I nearly thought you were the couple my husband and I played against in Panama off the grid at some place where you sleep in tree house huts on stilts. I suck at scrabble, the two we played against were journalists for The NY Times! and yet I was so ridiculously competitive and lost trying to prove that “boggers” was a word. I’m sorry, but what else would you call the dude standing in the cranberry bog for those old Ocean Spray commercials?
Christina Crawford p.s. the New York Times is renowned for having the most difficult crosswords you can get. You played scrabble with word ninjas! That’s like picking a fight with Bruce Lee. You’re a brave soul 😄
