Video Games/Relationships

[Araylan]

My last bf played video games and at first it kind of sucked but if you can't beat them, join them, right? So we played together allll the time. It was a lot of fun and then when World of Warcraft came out we played on there from the time we got home from work until we went to bed but the obsession finally started to die out. He worked online so he'd be on the internet all of the time and at first it wasn't much of a problem but over the last 6 months or so of the relationship (we were together 3 and a half years) he was online all of the damn time. 24/7. He wouldn't even get off to eat dinner with me or have sex and that's where the line was drawn. If a naked or very scantily clad woman walks into your room, wanting you, you do NOT say give me a few minutes or give a glance and not much else.

And not to toot my own horn but I'm definately not ugly and my body is awesome lol. Anyway--no sex for that last 6 months b/c I stopped being attracted to him completely. I could understand being online for work's sake but then he started playing WoW again and instead of spending that little bit of free time with me, the person he supposedly wanted to spend his life with, he would run an instance with a large group in the game.

Yeah. So that was the last straw. And I couldn't be happier.
My bf now will play an occasional video game...but it's rare. He doesn't like computers much and no matter what we do, he likes to spend time with me. Anyway-- obviously I'm not into video games anymore. And I still hold a grudge against them if not played responsibly lol. I feel like I just wrote a novel but once I got started on the rant, it was hard to stop.

 

[lara]

I'm the gamer in the relationship, not him. He takes it with good grace and sometimes really gets into watching if I'm conducting a massacre on GTA or hitting a 400 note streak on Guitar Hero.

 

[Asianshell]

I can get addicted to RPGs as if there's no tomorrow.

He's a gamer too but I feel really bad for my fiance because my addiction to games can be really bad.

I LOVEEEEEE playing WITH him. Especially Diablo II LOD. It's really fun finding out my college friends like that game too. I thought I was the oddball. Then we would all play together.... SO MUCH time passes by!

Now, we don't play anything mainly because I'm trying to stay off of games and he's just too busy. Although I sometimes have the craving for Diablo or Neopets Faerie Bubbles.