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Ok I really need to get my husband a hobby and local friends.

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by (1.3k points)
Ok I really need to get my husband a hobby and local friends. I'm trying to get out of the house more and I need to get him out more so he won't be mad when I ask him to watch the kids so I can do things. What do your husbands/partners do? He's such a nerd. He's not really into sports a lot, doesn't really drink. Favorite things are like superhero stuff, Star Trek, legos, that kind of stuff. Any ideas? Groups to join or something?  
Ok I really need to get my husband a hobby and local friends.

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+10 votes
by (2.6k points)
I know this is months away, but has he been to Comic Con Chicago?  
by (2.6k points)
Valerie, my husband and I go every year. You should try going with him. You might like it. My husband and I gift this to each other as an Anniversary gift. We're like little children in a toy store.  
by (240 points)
C2E2 is next weekend
+12 votes
by (730 points)
My husband and some friends of his have been going to galloping ghost arcade in Brookfield! They’re all pretty nerdy and they love it there.  
by (570 points)
@julejulee can I have more info about this!  
by (200 points)
Galloping ghost is near Brookfield and they have a second location that is allllll pinball  we love it!  
https://www.gallopingghostarcade.com/
by (730 points)
@continuity ah you’re right it is Brookfield! I knew it started with a B ‍♀️ sorry!  
by (1.6k points)
My husband and boys love going there!  
by (10.4k points)
There’s a new arcade in downtown Aurora called Yetee Station he could check out, too. We haven’t been there yet, but it looks like fun!  
by (2.3k points)
I grew up in Brookfield and LOVE this place! I'm going to Yetee station today to check it out for my kiddos. Same concept as GG and a little closer and a little cheaper.  
+1 vote
by (4.8k points)
I’ve got one too! Looks like we need to set up a play date  mine likes coffee and photography (expensive hobby) He also likes bike riding but he’s finicky about the type of weather not too hot not too cold  
by (330 points)
@panchito are you married to my husband because you just described him to a “T”  
by (4.8k points)
@grefe OMG u just cracked me up! LMAO, We should get them together. too funny, I’m shocked to hear there are so many people like him out there, He’s not as rare a specimen as I had thought
by (330 points)
@panchito no but if yours is like mine he would literally rather roll on the floor and die than have me “set him up” with another person. He won’t even go meet the men in the neighborhood  
by (4.8k points)
@grefe OMG he IS like yours!  
+7 votes
by (4.5k points)
Board gaming. They have some gaming nights bars and game stores
by (4.5k points)
We're nerds
by (780 points)
@sudatorium my husband loves to play games, we both do actually!  
+10 votes
by (4.5k points)
I'm the lego nerd here. But my husband ticks the rest of those boxes. And also needs friends. Lol
by (4.5k points)
This is my husband's!  
+7 votes
by (380 points)
Every 2nd Friday of the month my husband has a poker night with his guy friends, been going on for 16 years. One Saturday a month he plays D&D with a group of guys too. He also goes for dinner and cigars every couple months with the guys too.  
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by (270 points)
My husband also does not drink and is not into sports. He is into board games. Seriously into board games. If it isn’t too far he goes to the Sandwich Library once a month on a Saturday to play games. Maybe your hubby could come hang. Sandwich, IL Game Club is their Facebook group. Depending on the age of your kids maybe he could bring them too and you get a Saturday morning to yourself momma!  
by (490 points)
@ringworm my hubby is into board games too! We go to GenCon every year. Every. Year.  
by (190 points)
@ringworm same here. Husband seriously into board games that he meets with friends weekly and goes to GenCon every year.  
by (890 points)
We just created a board game group for Montgomery/Oswego because everyone has been trying to meet up with groups from other surrounding areas. If you're interested: Montgomery/Oswego Tabletop Gaming Group
by (270 points)
@munson2679 My husband goes to GenCon every year too! This year our youngest wanted to go so now I’m tagging along too. Nick also contributes to The Family Gamers podcast/blog so he does interviews when he’s at GenCon.  
by (780 points)
@drachm5 great! We are looking to get to play games with people!  
by (890 points)
@sporocyst8138 There is a game night tomorrow night at the Aurora Public Library. I am planning to try to go but I can't commit 100%. I also can't stay all that late because my daughter goes to bed at 7:30 and I work in the morning. But it will be nice to try to meet other board gamers.  
by (780 points)
@drachm5 that sounds great, unfortunately every other week is boy scouts and tomorrow is that day. Hoping for a Friday night or Saturday soon
by (890 points)
@sporocyst8138 Saturday during the day works best for me.  
+6 votes
by (2.5k points)
I can relate so much to this. my husband has basically 1 friend and they see each other like 2 times a year so he doesn’t do anything other than work
+11 votes
by (970 points)
My husband has met some nice new friends playing Pokémon go! They raid togetherness do monthly get togethers
by (3.3k points)
That's what I was thinking. Mine does Pokemon go for and with our daughter but something like that could work.  
by (2.3k points)
My husband is hard core Pokémon guy. He plays every single day. He does raids a lot too.  
by (970 points)
Yep still a thing? Lol my oldest 2 go with him too sometimes. I’ve met a group of nice people at his raids lol
+7 votes
by (360 points)
Building/flying racing drones. Or flying a regular drone and getting into the camera footage and video production aspect also. He could maybe start with a tiny whoop drone. My son is in his 20s and meets with people of all ages to fly with.  
+4 votes
by (1.8k points)
Birding? My husband is a birder, it can get them out of the House for hours, plus they get exercise. You can bird solo, but get together woth others too
+14 votes
by (440 points)
My husband knows one other person than me here. He needs friends, I think we need to just set up a date and force them all to go.  
by (2.3k points)
@warehouseman husband play date ?  
by (480 points)
I want in on this idea! My husband still only has his friends from home 3 hours away
by (4.8k points)
@dinesen96462 same!  
by (440 points)
Yess! My husband is from Miami, and travels for work so I’m pretty much it here. I need him to have friends  
+27 votes
by (1k points)
Sounds like my hubby too video games & star wars. We need to add our husbands to a group  
+4 votes
by (450 points)
We all need to set a blind date with all of our husbands .  
+16 votes
by (2.1k points)
Except mine doesn’t really like anything besides TV and food.  
by (300 points)
@gable ugh mine too  
+9 votes
by (1.1k points)
Sounds like my brother.  
+5 votes
by (890 points)
Join a board game group. There is a Montgomery/Oswego Tabletop Gaming Group and other groups from other areas. There is a board game night this Thursday at the Aurora Library West Branch.  
+9 votes
by (2.3k points)
It’s next weekend but if he is a nerd tell him to go to C2E2 at McCormick center downtown. It’s geek heaven.  
by (2.3k points)
I'll be there with my hubby and kid! I'm going as Dazzler on Friday, Peter Parker on Sat and Wonder Woman on Sunday. Heh. Its a LOT of fun. I don't spend as much as I used to.  
by (2.3k points)
See I REFUSED to go with my hubby for years. I thought it was all just comic books. Then I learned I could dress up. I'm alll about the cosplay. I won't do the ComicCon one, but I like C2E2. My younger two kids get bored, but the older two love it now. If he wants to go and needs a buddy we are there!  
by (2.3k points)
One year we were in panels the whole time. There were a lot of authors I wanted to see and he went to see a bunch of comic book artists and writers. He writes GI JOE books for Hasbro and other fiction, so he really gets into it. (photo of my wonder woman cosplay. heh)
+9 votes
by (4.1k points)
Does your husband play Xbox? That’s where my nerd makes his friends lol
+24 votes
by (1.8k points)
My husband plays basketball on Sunday mornings at the high school. they have adult open gym every Sunday. He is also on a basketball league on Thursday nights.  
by (10.4k points)
@grefe OHS or OEHS? And what time?  
by (1.8k points)
+11 votes
by (1.1k points)
We are the same way Drives me crazy
+19 votes
by (1.6k points)
They have a Naperville dads Facebook group.  
+17 votes
by (5k points)
You are welcome to come to our church, that's where majority of my husbands friends are from.  
+35 votes
by (950 points)
I just say I’m going out. If my husband wants to leave or go out he can figure it out on his own or shut up cus I need to leave the house.  
by (4.6k points)
@seabury Koebele  same. I’m not his mother nor am I his event planner. Figure life out dood.  
+5 votes
by (2.6k points)
Wow. you just described my husband/situation  mine is the biggest LEGO nerd you’ll find he even makes a living doing it. He’s weird with setting up a friendship though unless it happens naturally lol.  
by (4.8k points)
@stonechat342 ditto!  
+39 votes
by (1.2k points)
Sounds like my husband! I could have written this!  
+36 votes
by (360 points)
Another option if he likes stargazing naperville astronomy club is pretty good to learn about beyond this planet. My husband join northwest suburbs and naperville astronomy club and he love that  
http://www.stargazing.net/naa/index...shtml
+11 votes
by (360 points)
Maybe someone should make a meetup group for oswego nerd dads! Id make my husband join!  
+2 votes
by (210 points)
Bowling league?  
by (4.8k points)
@wilhelmina ooohhh my hubby would bowl  
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