So, I crush my BF in most games...

[JKDS]

Have any of you had this problem before? (Replace BF with GF if that suits you better )

In most board/card/video/etc games, my minimal poker background gives me way too much of an edge. So much so that I'd say I win at these games about 95% of the time. Mind you, I am not practicing, reading up online about them, or thinking about them in my sleep. I just seem to be better at making game decisions than he is, and that plus my "always play to win" mentality is causing him to think he's stupid by comparison. We've had little fights over it, and I cant seem to really tone it down at all. Intentionally making a worse decision makes me feel horrible, like any victory they get is ultimately robbed from them, so its extremely hard for me to not play at 100%.

With so many people here who are also well adept at game theory, to far greater extents than I am, I got to ask...what do you do?

Winning doesnt even matter in these games really; theres no money on the line. But I really cant help myself, I can't play to "just have fun"...I dont even understand what that means. Playing at my best IS having fun, so I just...idk.

Someone on here has had to have had this issue with spouses, gf's, bf's, etc in the past. Have you gone easy on them? Just kept trying new games until you were bad at one? (I suck at trivial pursuit fwiw). Switched to more luck based games? Whats my play here?