n00b, lol
Uh, sorry about that. My attempt at humor?
So, I just started dating this guy about four months ago, and I really love him. What I don't love is when he invites me to come over and hang out, then tells me when I get there that "the guild needs him, so he has to play but it'll be a quick raid, I promise, I don't even want to play, really..." Then he proceeds to play for six hours, in which time I read an entire 200 page book, in addition to a couple quick naps.
At first it was kinda cute. The second day of our relationship (and this is after a big build-up, mind you), one of his best friends (and guild-mates) outed him: "Phil has something to tell you! I figure, you're pretty nerdy, so he should tell you. Phil likes to play World of Warcraft. A lot." "How much," I asked innocently. "A lot."
He was really embarrassed about it and got really excited when I said it was ok with me if he played video games: "You have no idea, most girls think this is really lame." But I knew lots of guys who played WoW or games like it, so it was fine.
He even layed off for a while. We only had a couple weeks left before finals and Christmas vacation, so I never even heard anything about it. He did make me come over once to watch him play for a couple minutes, so I would know what it was, but that was only a couple of minutes. No problem. During vacation, we were six hundred miles apart, so I didn't mind that "he and his guild wanted to level up before New Year's" because at least he was still on the phone with me.
But now. Now, we are one month away from finals. This summer, who knows how often we will get to see each other, since we may be living, again, six hundred miles away from each other and working. Then he will go to either Texas or Arizona, and I will go to Chico. We will be 850-2000 miles apart for the duration of the school year.
I want to spend time with him now. It didn't even bother me THAT much until his summer job here in town fell through. But now that there's only one more month instead of five, I want him to spend time with me.
He said, several times early on, "if you ever want me to spend less time on WoW, I will. You're my priority." But when I do ask him, I'm afraid that he will simply not tell me just how often he gets on. He keeps saying, "I think I'm just going to do one raid a week. And in April, I'm going to quit for the month." ...Let's see. On Friday, he played WoW for several hours. On Saturday, he played WoW for several hours. On Sunday, he played WoW because "they needed someone to DPS." Monday afternoon, he played WoW before going to work. After getting off work at midnight, he ditched me at the halfway point to go play WoW.
I didn't even get a hug. No "Love you. See you tomorrow." Just walked off as he texted his drunk roommate to reassure him that he'd be back soon to play.
My name is Caitlin, and my boyfriend is addicted to WoW.
So, I just started dating this guy about four months ago, and I really love him. What I don't love is when he invites me to come over and hang out, then tells me when I get there that "the guild needs him, so he has to play but it'll be a quick raid, I promise, I don't even want to play, really..." Then he proceeds to play for six hours, in which time I read an entire 200 page book, in addition to a couple quick naps.
At first it was kinda cute. The second day of our relationship (and this is after a big build-up, mind you), one of his best friends (and guild-mates) outed him: "Phil has something to tell you! I figure, you're pretty nerdy, so he should tell you. Phil likes to play World of Warcraft. A lot." "How much," I asked innocently. "A lot."
He was really embarrassed about it and got really excited when I said it was ok with me if he played video games: "You have no idea, most girls think this is really lame." But I knew lots of guys who played WoW or games like it, so it was fine.
He even layed off for a while. We only had a couple weeks left before finals and Christmas vacation, so I never even heard anything about it. He did make me come over once to watch him play for a couple minutes, so I would know what it was, but that was only a couple of minutes. No problem. During vacation, we were six hundred miles apart, so I didn't mind that "he and his guild wanted to level up before New Year's" because at least he was still on the phone with me.
But now. Now, we are one month away from finals. This summer, who knows how often we will get to see each other, since we may be living, again, six hundred miles away from each other and working. Then he will go to either Texas or Arizona, and I will go to Chico. We will be 850-2000 miles apart for the duration of the school year.
I want to spend time with him now. It didn't even bother me THAT much until his summer job here in town fell through. But now that there's only one more month instead of five, I want him to spend time with me.
He said, several times early on, "if you ever want me to spend less time on WoW, I will. You're my priority." But when I do ask him, I'm afraid that he will simply not tell me just how often he gets on. He keeps saying, "I think I'm just going to do one raid a week. And in April, I'm going to quit for the month." ...Let's see. On Friday, he played WoW for several hours. On Saturday, he played WoW for several hours. On Sunday, he played WoW because "they needed someone to DPS." Monday afternoon, he played WoW before going to work. After getting off work at midnight, he ditched me at the halfway point to go play WoW.
I didn't even get a hug. No "Love you. See you tomorrow." Just walked off as he texted his drunk roommate to reassure him that he'd be back soon to play.
My name is Caitlin, and my boyfriend is addicted to WoW.