This is petty, but it is making me feel a little bit blue.
My husband and I don't really do much "together". With three children and busy schedules for both of us, there is just not much time. And even when there is time, there are few things we both want to do equally much.
So anyway - we have been playing Words With Friends. Just on and off. Cos it is the sort of game we can just have a move or two when we have time, and then leave it for a few days and come back to.
We have played 3 games altogether, and are playing the 4th now. First game I won fairly well (by 50 points or so), second game I won by a bit (maybe 20 points?) and third game he won (just!). We are playing the fourth game now, and are about half way through. Now I have been really lucky this game - I have managed to get some really high scoring words (used all my letters twice, and managed a really lucky combination on a triple word score to get around 50 points another time. SO I am currently on nearly 300, whilst my husband is just over 150 (which is a respectable score for this point in the game). And he is sulking and saying he doesn't want to play anymore, because he keeps getting "crap letters".
I'm not sure what I should say/do. My inclination is to say - well, I'm winning this time because I have been lucky and have also played some words well. But sulking because of it is childish and you (he) should just get over it. I didn't say this - I just said I was sorry....
Then he made a comment about how he wouldn't enjoy playing a game if he was "thrashing" the other person. And that felt a lot like a criticism, and made me wonder if my asking him to continue to play was in fact a selfish and callous thing to do....
I dunno. I love playing word games (possibly because I tend to be quite good at them) and we used to play scrabble quite a lot when we were first married, and I had been enjoying playing partly because of that.
But it is not fair if he is going to feel grumpy about it, is it? Even if it is mostly the only thing we do together....