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Obsessive Gaming Widow.

My partner is obsessively addicted to the on line game, "World of War Craft" to the exclusion of everything but his 40 hr. a week job. He even sleeps in the living room now! It brakes my heart to hear him laughing and carring on with his W.O.W. friends because he wares a headset to speak instead of type conversations with them. His back is to me because our computer is in the corner. I feel shut out compleatly, if not abandoned! What can or should I do to reach him? Or should I just save myself and move on. We've been together for 14 years. I'd hate to think it was all wasted time, or to give up on him, even if I feel he has taken this game business to far.


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World of War Craft is a scary game. I have heard of many people who have become severly addicted to it before. Honestly, I think your boyfriend needs some sort of an intervention, but if he is unable to break away from it, I think you might have to consider breaking away from him.

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In order to have truly good friends, you have to first be one yourself.

Thanks for the input. I think I already knew how this was going to turn out, just wanted to make sure I had covered as many bases as I could first.

Posted 2009-08-13T22:19:29Z
 

tell him its either WOW or you and say you either get rid of it or im divorcing you... if you are not serious about the divorce you should tell him to quit his job or get pregnat and say we have kids to watch now... hope this helps :)

 

In order to have truly good friends, you have to first be one yourself.

This obsessive gaming thing is to large and importantly effecting my well being, my sanity! So I addressed the situation in a large and dramatic way. Last night I simply walked to our back bedroom where the master switchbox is that controls the power to our house. I threw the power switch for the entire house and waited in the dark for his responce. He of course came bounding down the hall almost immediatly...Having locked the door after I'd entered the bedroom, and it being so dark. He hit the door, literaly!...BAM!...He hollered out my name and kept shaking the door handle until I answered him by telling him I knew the power was off because I'd turned  it off...and that it was going to stay turned off until he sat down and gave full attention to what I had to say! At first we were talking through the door and gradually came face to face . I turned the power back on as I told him I was moving out...Dumbstruck, he just  looked at me, blinked, and replyed, "So does this mean that you're taking your computer?" I know he said this to be funny, but this isn't a joke to me. I'm making plans this morning to vacate the house on my on terms by the end of the month. And I don't give a good-Gosh-Darn if it suits anybody elses plans. I can compeat with just about anything, but  this computer game....14 years, down the crapper! So be it! 

I thank everyone for thier in-put though...very much!

Posted 2009-08-15T17:53:58Z

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