I don't understand why my wife wants to keep bowling
My wife and I are child free, so we have date night almost weekly. I plan events, but also ask for her input. She asks to go bowling every few months. I can't understand why, because she will consistently get upset that I do well at it.
To put it in perspective, I'll highlight our last trip. She researched a place that had a good deal in our area: $30 per person for 2 hours of bowling. We went and I bowl kind of weird. I hook the ball from one side of the lane to the other. It's kind of a hit or miss for me because I have to get a feel for the grease on the lane to lock in, so game 1 I did poorly. So did she, but we were having a good time and engaging each other in between throws. Game 2, I had locked it in. She had a great game for her, but I scored a 210. Game 3, she stopped interacting with me and just threw it in the gutter, walked away, and read a book on her phone. I ended up asking if she wanted to leave after that, and we did. From my perspective, I lost $30 since our 2 hours was only half done, and we had dinner plans afterwards which she asked to cancel.
This isn't the first time it happened. One previous time, she had a couple too many drinks and when I started locking in, she started taking Snapchats of me bowling and narrating "Look at how good Lovefist1221 is! He's just great at bowling!" It was embarrassing and we left early again.
I guess my question is how to balance this. She wants to bowl, I want to practice and get better. If I just throw my games to keep the peace, I'm not practicing anymore, and in my opinion (this may be wrong) I'm just tossing money away because in my opinion I'm paying for the practice.
I guess I could throw my games with her and practice on my own, but we're child free and both work - it'd be weird for me to go bowling solo and tbh a waste of money in my opinion.