by Amy Heinecke

Created on: February 28, 2008   Last Updated: July 28, 2010

As a game addicts wife i know first hand on how playing a game came take over your life. My loving husband of four months plays World of Warcraft or WoW, it seemed harmless when i first learned he played when we were dating. He had been playing for almost nine years and he seemed normal to me. We would go on our dates and then he would drop me off at my house and then go home to play his game. Everything was great until he joined the military and to pass the time in Texas without me he would play WoW at the BDU club with his friends, sometimes playing for twelve hours at a time. A couple months later we got married and i spent most of my wedding night alone while he played his game. I started to wonder if he married the game instead of me. As the months went by he tried to balance his time between me and his game. Then he started playing his game a lot more and i grew lonely, so i would dress up in my sexy outfits and go to the BDU club where he was playing his game and i would try to tempt him to come home, rarely could i drag him off the computer so i began to give up. I would spend my time at home or at the library until he would call me to come pick him up. Then the next day he would ask if he could go play his game and i would always say yes because it relieved stress for him but as soon as he would leave i would feel the regret in that decision. If i asked him to stop playing he says he would but i don't think he could for very long. Twice he stopped playing and canceled his account just to start playing again in a few weeks later. So i made a new friend and we spent alot of time together and began to get jealous and started to ask if i would come watch him play his game and i did for awhile seeing that this was a chance to be closer with him and share something he liked to do. A few months later we moved and got Internet service inside our home, which was not the best idea when your husband is addicted to a on line fantasy game. He comes home after working hard and sits down in front of the computer for hours he doesn't even notice the time going by. I bring his meals up to him and he eats in the computer room. Sometimes he sees that hes played alot and takes a night off but even if hes not playing Wow hes talking about it or checking out videos of Wow on You tube. We went home on Christmas break and he insisted on bringing his computer with which he did and played most of the time that we were supposed to be hanging with our family's for the holidays.

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