I find Chess.com very salubrious to my marriage. Thanks to a laptop and a wireless connection, it keeps me in the same room with my wife in the evenings while she watches television. 

My advice is that if you have a real passion for something the mate you choose should also have a passion for something as well, ideally the same thing if possible. When a person with a passion for any hobby/interest marries one with no such passion then they are headed for trouble because the one with no passion will never be able to relate to or tolerate the passion of the other. If two people marry and neither of them has a passion for any hobby/interest they might do ok too. Women can be very strange, they will raise hell with a man for "wasting" money on a chess book or set (that you dont really need they say) but think buying them pretty, and expensive, flowers that die in a week or two and are thrown away are not a "waste". Go figure.......

Well, really, how many chess sets does one person need?

 

 

How many pairs of shoes or handbags does one person need?

Loads ... shoes to wear shopping for a new chessboard, and a big handbag to carry my new chessboard home in 

Find yourself a mate here with your common interests:

http://www.blossoms.com/

 

LMAO

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Guess thats me outta luck then

My wife gets upset with me, too.  To be honest, I think she has a point.  I have been neglecting to do other stuff I need to do around the house.  I think if I do that, she will be ok with me playing; just maybe not as much.

Rael wrote: Unbeliever wrote: batgirl wrote:

It may not have been your love of chess that had your lover scared/

but rather by your cheesic love so effervescently declared.

 

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 Nice one, but  I do not believe it was love of cheese that was effervescently declared.

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Howabout it Locke? Did you ever effervescently declare your love of cheese to her? Or did you just declare it ebulliently?

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It's a simple matter Locke, your true love posing as Demosthenes simply needs to be aware that she is the one true queen of your life, cheese be damned. 

i am lucky and do not have a wife. since i am 16 that would be a little weird but my parents got on to me for playing chess 15+ hours a week but i AM addicted to chess, if i did not have to sleep i would play all night and day, i love it!

I have a great wife.  We have been married since 7/02/71.  She knew I loved chess, but it was very difficult for me to play face to face and sit down with someone.  She is in fact the one that suggested I should start playing online.  She many times notifies me when I receive an e-mail saying it's my move.  She also sometimes waits patiently to have access to the computer for her turn to play games or just use the computer.

My wife is very understanding when it comes to chess. She undertands that Chess is actually a release for me at times, so she developed a hobby of her own to compensate since since she has no real desire to learn how to play chess. Playing a few games after a tough day is invaluable. Of course, I have to tackle a few items on the honey-do list to keep house in order first.

  As a couple, we can whup tail in Scrabble, but that's beside the point.

Anyhow, I have two chess sets in my posession....one for show and one ready to go.

Not having a wife myself and turning the tables somewhat here, my [male] partner is proud of me, and knows i love chess, and i think most of the time he humours my addiction to chess.com.

He also knows that if i could get away with wearing my chess.com t-shirt under my wedding dress in September, i would LOL 

Perfect Gent; sounds like you goy it going on mayte...Congrats.  I plan on keeping my wife as well, thanx for the response to all of you...Glenn(cot)

Any time you take away from your wife/girlfriend is always too much no matter what you are doing. 

...too much time with each other can also be a bad thing...We all need a little private time...And I love mine very much...still need that private time...

My partner and i are both computer geeks, we have 12 computers in all, 7 of which are networked. [3 on his desk and 4 on mine.] We still spend time together, our desks face eachother, we chat across the desks haha .. .. He and i both have our addictions, he plays around with his website, his streaming media and his electronics site while i'm on chess.com. It doesn't interfere with "our time" as we both multi task [and we make time for eachother]. He accepts my chess addiction but refuses all chess game offers from me as i keep winning. He will ask how my games are going, and occassionally i'll read something funny in the forums to him. I accept the things in his life that make him happy, just as he accepts the things that make me happy. He and i are getting married in two and half months so he must love me regardless of my chess addiction.  

I told him the chess saying i'd read on here about chess players make the best mates and he laughed [but he didn't disagree ]

 

congradulations to you and your partner, I am glad you found happiness.   Those who play together, stay together !!!!!!!Good luck to you both and thanx for your response.........Glenn

Thanx for that......

Mt wife and I met by playing chess.  We played chess the whole time we were dating.  We still play chess.

I never realized how rare this is and how lucky I am.