"My boyfriend has tried to suck me into his everquest hole before; sometimes it's funny but other times it really hurts. He would bring this big everquest manual with him everywhere, even on our dates, I guess he thought he could get me to read it.Sometimes he would try to get me into other games too, as if I would begin to understand his addiction. I tried to understand I even let him show me a demo of that crap one time... I still cry for those wasted minuites in my life that I will never get back."
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I've read this post somewhere before.
Sep 30, 2005, 1:07:00 AM
Hi Mark,
Good observation. It is pretty much the same story, over and over. And one of the reasons why I started this blog in the first place. I used to think and say things like "well, those are only rare / extreme cases" or "they probably had a not so good relationship anyways". But (and this is not backed up by statistics, jut my own observations) this just seems to happen over and over so many times that I pretty quickly started to realize that playing an MMOG for 35+ hours a week definitely had some role in the deterioration of relationships. Me and my ex-spouse played EQ together, and let me tell, it definitely didn't help keep our relationship together. Just the simple fact that you spend so many hours a week being unavailable mentally from someone who is supposed you are sharing your life with will almost surely put a big rift into it. Why else would long-distance relationships often not make it? Btw, my relationship was pretty much doomed because we both ended up playing EQ with different people... that's 8 years down the drain, I'm not blaming the game, but I am blaming the fact that we did not find any time to share even online - his online friends were not mine and vice versa, and we both choose to play how we want to rather than to find time to spend together.
Also, sometimes a breakup can improve lives, and I wouldn't necessarily call that a loss.
Cheers!
Oct 15, 2005, 5:51:00 PM
Sorry, for my typing mistakes, I'm pretty tired :)
Oct 15, 2005, 5:52:00 PM
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