Me if I were forty years younger and female. Back in early 1982 on one of our first dates I asked my bride what she would like to do. She replied that she would really love to play one of my strategy games. We played Viva Espana, a Battleline game on the Spanish Civil War.
The rest has been a glorious thirty-eight years!

This explains her Civ IV skills!
But who won?
I did. I commanded the Nationalists, letting Cathy have her choice of the Republicans.
So you married a gal who was “one of the guys” (for a certain subset of that very large group. Good for you!
Lucky B•st*rd