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Gaming With a Partner Who Doesn't Game (feat. Jake)
Sep 15, 2026 ·
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Jake from the Melbourne Gaymers is back on the couch, and this week the topic is one every adult gamer eventually runs into. You love games. Your partner does not....
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Jake from the Melbourne Gaymers is back on the couch, and this week the topic is one every adult gamer eventually runs into. You love games. Your partner does not. How do you make that work? Between the three of them there is a husband who throws the controller at Mario Party's random bonus stars, a boyfriend who claims to be a gamer but owns a PS5 and neither a TV nor a couch, and a partner who occasionally tinkers with a horror game alone because the host who bought it for him is too scared to watch. In this episode:
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- The guilt problem. Davey games at 5:30am on weekends because he feels bad playing when Anthony is in the house, and admits most of that guilt is self imposed
- Rot time, Mitch's term for sitting in the same room doing completely different things, and why it counts as quality time
- Why handheld gaming changed all of this, and whether a dedicated games room is a dream or a trap
- What happens when a partner is actively anti gaming, and how this podcast came out of that
- Gaming as escapism, decompression and genuine emotional regulation, and how to explain that to someone who has never needed it
- Booking it in. Davey has the GTA 6 release weekend blocked out in the shared family calendar
- Teaching a partner who did not grow up gaming, including the moment Jake realised Adrian needed inverted controls
- Finding games for your partner rather than dragging them into yours
- Whether queer couples are better at this, and why
- Mitch on designing his own Pokémon game, and telling his boyfriend about it
- The big question: would you actually want a gamer partner? All three say no, and explain why
- Why watching someone else play a game means you will never play it yourself
- Housemates, shared TVs, and the other relationships nobody talks about
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