WoW Widow + two

[sjeo]

I've been a gamer widow most of my 6 years of marriage. My DH has played WoW since it came out and had to go stand out in the cold to get the expansion pack at midnight, signed and all. Before kids, he used to go to and host LAN parties regularly. That was the worst! What makes it harder is, his job is working for a gaming/entertainment type company, so he is always exposed to it and will never get away from it. Our close friends play it, so when the group gets together, the guys are usually talking in a foreign language (at least to me) about WoW. I dont think they know anything else to talk about! Sad thing is, we have two kids. The minute they are in bed, off he goes until about 2am or so. We NEVER go to bed together anymore, that stopped about halfway into our first year of marriage. Its amazing we do have two kids with the lack of intimacy in our relationship. We are more like roommates than husband and wife. Glad to have found this site, nice to know I am not the only one living with this. If only our DH/SO's would spend half the time with us (their families) as they do on WoW, the world would be a happier place. Thanks for listening.

[imafflictedyoureaddicted]

If only our DH/SO's would spend half the time with us (their families) as they do on WoW, the world would be a happier place.

so true

[Furore]

I am new to this site but I'm really glad to find you all here! It's good to know that there are other people out there who understands what I'm going through. I've been a WoW Widow for the past 2-3 years ever since my bf discovered the wonders of this game. While he levels up, our relationship levels down. Almost every night I wonder why the heck am I letting him do this to me? How can a game be more important than our relationship of more than 5 years?? He works late due to conference calls so he has one ear plugged into his ear piece. The other ear is covered with his headset where his WOW buddies await him. So where does that leave me?? So he plays while he has his calls, but continues even after his calls end... Sometimes his calls end at 10-11pm, and he plays until 3-4am. When I talk to him, there is no answer, because he cannot hear me with his headsets on. Sigh. On some nights, it justs gets too unbearable

[annlim21]

'm glad u've found this site. I was searching for something like this all over.. And when i typed in all sorts of searching words in google.. eg. wife hating Rpg, Wow. concern.. etc,etc..
but non of the sites were supporting the neg. impact on gaming, but only in favour to the addicts~!
I know 'geeks' are taking over the space in internet search engine, but seriously they need to be more objective in creating to help pp. like us~!.(sorry, if this wasn't related to ur story..)