Making time to play?

[Champion_Standing]

Waffel you have some deep insights into the life of a depressed EQ addict. Is it from your work as a young psychologist or are you just speaking from experience?

[Buellen]

first of LIFE always > than EQ

I had a similar problem with my wife about my Hobby time (EQ at the time). She always complained i would spend to much time in everquest (Raiding).

We talked about the issue and figured out how many hours free time I had during the week (not at work) , and how much time i as spending in everquest. IN my situation i was dedicating to much of my free time to my Hobby. We came to a compromise that i feel works great. I get to spend 1 hr or so after work till she get home and I get Saturdays to myself for about 8 hours. I usually get about 1hr to 2hr at night once she goes to bed.

Rest of my free time is now set for our relationship and house work (painting, patching, yard et etc ) IT is very very important to dedicated one night a week to just be all about your Wife/girlfriend and you to be together. IN my case that is Friday night , and Sundays are are for family or other such events.

[woodz]

As everyone else has said, you just need to have a chat with your girl and kind of drive home how necessary it is for a bit of solo time. It's not a reflection on her, it's just a basic human requirement for most of us.

Between work, playing a heap of sport and various other activities, initially I really struggled to get game time in when the girlfriend moved in. These days I get an hour or so in at night while she watches real housewives of who gives a fuck. It helps that we're in the same room and can still chat - that was a key aspect of me getting back on p99 (the only laptop I have is old as hell and can't run anything remotely modern).

I also chose a class that I knew would solo well as I knew longer stretches of group play would be rare and only occur sporadically on weekends. Hence, the druid. Worst case I just take off anon and do some ports while semi-afk during a weeknight when we're hanging out.

tldr; chat with your girl.

[Morgwar]

Lol my wife gets pissed after a while if when i come home and i dont play something. It really confuses me sometimes but she plays mmos too so that's probably why.