This is a blog about people and the games they play. I'm not talking about board games or sports, but the real psychological games people play with eachother. There are games between boyfriend and girlfriends, games between parents and kids, games between friends, and between almost any people who can breathe. I studied these games in my Human Relations class.
Why do people play games?, because people need strokes. Strokes are emotional, and people need them to feel like they're alive. If people can't get enough good strokes, then they'll settle for bad ones gained by game playing.
First, there is the most common game in a romantic relationship the "come close, go away" game. That game, if you haven't guessed, is when one person in a relationship leads the other person on until they fall in like, lust, or love. Once the victim has fallen for their partner, the game player pulls away because they want someone else. The person says "come close", but once close they say "go away".
For those who haven't experienced the aforementioned game, whether they were the victim or the initiator, maybe they've experienced the "why haven't you?" game. That game is commonly played between parent and kid. The parent comes home or wakes up in the morning and is already angry. They then start looking around for a chore or something that the child didn't do so he can ask "why haven't you...?". Once the question is asked, the kid gets defensive, the parent gets angrier, and yelling may start.
There are many other kinds of games that people play, but I can't remember all their names. It is sad that we need to do this to feel emotionally alive, but it happens. So next time you're caught in one of these games, remember that you're not alone because millions of people are going through the same thing.
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