Hello helpful, loyal (thrifty, brave and kind) readers. I appreciate all of you and your insight. Some of you may not have noticed, but a woman posted a comment on one of my popular posts, The Xbox Conundrum, about how her husband won’t stop playing video games.
Perhaps you all might have some helpful suggestions for her?
“My husband get’s up in the morning and the first thing he does is turn on Guild Wars. He ignores his job until around 10:30 a.m. sometimes until noon or later, then finally takes off to do his rounds. But because he get’s such a late start, he’s out working until 7 p.m. at times. He is in pest control so he has appointment windows of 4 hours, and he’s usually late to most of them. So when you people out there are waiting for some guy to come over for an appointment, realize he might be at home gaming waisting your time. So,… when he get’s home at night, he gives me a kiss and says how was your day, pretends to show me his time. We tak about what food we will eat and sit for a minute. Which is really obvious that it’s applied behavior, only to passify me and can’t wait to go log into his Guild again. Of which he proceeds to play until 2 a.m. in the morning, or at least midnight. I go to bed alone almost every night. We have sex about twice a month. So what do you think?”
I responded to her asking for more details and she provided the following:
“oh yes,I have talked to him many, many, many times. The right way in the first 3 1/2 years, with love, patients and understanding. He kows I grew up with 5 boys and I don’t act like a reguar girl. I “get” men better than the average woman. I don’t just want to complain about something, I want answers and solutions just like a man cause that’s what my brothers taught me. So much so that I can hardly even relate to women very much. I also don’t put him through long, drug out conversations. I give him “cave time” etc, etc. I know the deal. Trust me. Then with the overwhelming frustration, I began to loose myself control with how I presented my feelings. I just can’t take it anymore. Frustration doesn’t even begin to describe how I feel now. I’m lost in absolute sorrow because he just doesn’t care. I’ve been reading about gamming addiction and he definately has that going on as far as I can tell. I’ve tried to talk to him about that too. He agreed, then fails to make good on his promises….. On any of his promises I’m afraid.”
Anonymous, I hope that you are still watching. The community here can provide some useful insight.
Any suggestions, anyone?
well if ufind an answer to ur problem please let me know bcuz i have the same problem my husbands lives off his damn xbox sometimes i wish i can just get the courage to get it and throw it to the garbage in the weekends he wake up really early and starts playing before i evn wake up i think he thinks that that is ok since i am still asleep and it wont bother me see i work 2 jobs i have a full time job in 3 shift then i hav a part time in the morning so i hardly evr c him o n he only wrks about 3e days out of the wk and this wk i had 2 days off wrk so thought that it would be ok to play instead of being with me or the kids i have 2
the 1st day i was off he said that if he culd play i said no so out of no where he was tiered and fell asleep on the couch then proceeded to go to the bedroom woth out me and the next day i left to get my hair done and was gone since lik 5 to 7 and he was playing when i left came home n he was still playing i was really tiered by 10 so i went to bed he kept right on playing got up at about 1230 started bitching then he turned it off at about 1am and this is all the time when he is playing the whole world stops and only the xbox exsists i cant talk to him and god forbid that the kids get in front of the tv cuz he bitches at them i dont know what to do so uf u find an answer please share i am to the point of leaving with the kids to see if like that he gets the picture
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