What’s the Venn Diagram overlap with your partner? Is it big or small? I’d love to hear! “Add that to the overlap!” he texted back when I told him. Steven, who bikes 20 miles a day, had been anxiously waiting for me to get a bike so we could ride together. This past weekend, I was at a yard sale and came across a vintage bike that I couldn’t pass up buying. The fact that Steven is so different from me makes me appreciate him so much more than if he was just an extension of my own interests and perspectives. Obviously that’s almost never true, and in fact that’s what makes relationships so much richer. I used to hold a somewhat short-sighted assumption that couples should have nearly everything in common to be compatible. Here are some more things we both love with all our hearts:
But in the Venn Diagram of our relationship there is some major overlap - neither of us can resist singing along to Otis Redding, we love the same secret pizza place, and it turns out I don’t mind sweating so much if I’m taking a long walk with him on a hot summer night. I hate being hot more than anything, my music is more on the chill side, and I always stay up as late as I possibly can.
Steven loves war documentaries, going to bed early, avant garde Punk, and wearing flannel year-round, no matter how hot it is. When we first met I was drawn to Steven’s warmth, that he was a writer, and that he loved art as much as I do. Mindy: I have not yet tired of seeing hot people fall in love in a movie. Jason: Ok because I thought it was refreshing to see real people fall in love in a movie. I’m not sure why we paid money to see it… Mindy: I thought it was very real…I thought the people in it looked like people who would be in line behind me at the bank. Jason: So what did you think of the movie? This conversation reminded me of a scene from The Mindy Project that I watched a few nights ago: Like a man on a search for clues, he answered, “I’m reading about the origins of Greek democracy.” And that in a nutshell are the two strikingly different personalities in our relationship, and somehow it works really well. One night on the couch, laughing my head off, I looked over at my boyfriend Steven and asked what he was reading about… We also wanted to make a game that was endlessly replayable and always unique - we’ve designed Open Relationships so no two rounds are ever the same.Every night I like to scroll through Instagram, looking for anything I missed that day and the best Tik Tok compilations. That's what inspired us to create Open Relationships: a game that puts intentionally different ideas in front of players and sets them up with prompts to make smart, unexpected, and always laugh-out-loud connections between them. Connecting two wildly different ideas in clever ways isn’t just hilarious, it’s thought-provoking and satisfying when done well. Whether you’re finding common ground between anti-vaxxers and responsible bartenders, or strippers and cats, you’re creating comedy gold.īut, finding two seemingly unrelated ideas and connecting them in a funny way can be really hard to do. Hilarious Venn diagrams are peak internet. Hello! We're Evan and Josh, lifelong quirky board gamers and general mischief makers.
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