10 Things You Should Know About Dating A Gamer

7. Don't Beat Us At Our Own Game

There's nothing more humiliating to a gamer than being trounced at their favourite game by their inexperienced, non-gamer partner. It's happened to many of us, the scarcely-repressed memories of that time your girlfriend got a fluke knife kill on Black Ops, and wouldn't let you live it down for the rest of the week, even embarrassing you in front of your friends about it.

If you're both gamers, then this might just about work, but if not and the gamer you're dating feels that it's "their" hobby, destroying them might not go down too well, so err on the side of caution depending on your significant other's temperament.