Here are ten advantages of being a poker widow: When life gives you lemons, bring on the tequila. Many a woman has lost her man to this seemingly innocuous card game, but it doesn’t have to be the death knell of your relationship. Any free time is spent honing his skills, reading poker magazines and watching poker on TV.
To make it even worse, you are subjected to a detailed hand-by-hand dissection of his game when he returns. To many women this spells widowhood – lonesome evenings and weekends without your guy, while he bluffs, check-raises and goes all-in on the felt or online. So the man in your life has taken up the dreaded game of poker.