This Love
My partner and I have just returned from a very small ceremony to form a Civil Union together. He's the Death Knight. It's ok, I don't hold it against him.
One of us is a real girl. The other just pretends on the internet.
WoW is often said to be a relationship killer, and there's certainly some merit to that accusation. There are times we've had to work pretty hard to not let WoW addiction cause problems in our personal life.
We've discovered we're both capable of it, for different reasons. Whither is more of an obsessive personality than I am, but I can manage to spend just as much time on the game through feelings of obligation. I am such a sucker for 'Are you free? We need heals.'
He's a Wrath baby. When we first started seeing each other, we played Diablo II together. I wheedled him into trying WoW and now it has his soul too. We levelled a pair of druids together through the classic game. We did progression raiding together, his death knight and my shaman. We battleground together, and have a 2s arena team.
There are times when WoW causes conflict. We've found just turning the computers off and going cold turkey for a few days helps. So does making sure we make time to do things with each other outside of the game. In no way does WoW count as spending time together, we've found. It feels like we've barely seen each other, and we start to lose our cherished closeness.
At the same time, WoW has given us something very powerful to share. When I was first introducing him to the game, I felt like I was showing him my world. When we explore content together, sometimes, it feels like we're also exploring who we are to each other.
One of us is a real girl. The other just pretends on the internet.
WoW is often said to be a relationship killer, and there's certainly some merit to that accusation. There are times we've had to work pretty hard to not let WoW addiction cause problems in our personal life.
We've discovered we're both capable of it, for different reasons. Whither is more of an obsessive personality than I am, but I can manage to spend just as much time on the game through feelings of obligation. I am such a sucker for 'Are you free? We need heals.'
He's a Wrath baby. When we first started seeing each other, we played Diablo II together. I wheedled him into trying WoW and now it has his soul too. We levelled a pair of druids together through the classic game. We did progression raiding together, his death knight and my shaman. We battleground together, and have a 2s arena team.
There are times when WoW causes conflict. We've found just turning the computers off and going cold turkey for a few days helps. So does making sure we make time to do things with each other outside of the game. In no way does WoW count as spending time together, we've found. It feels like we've barely seen each other, and we start to lose our cherished closeness.
At the same time, WoW has given us something very powerful to share. When I was first introducing him to the game, I felt like I was showing him my world. When we explore content together, sometimes, it feels like we're also exploring who we are to each other.