There is a story on latimes.com this week about a married couple who play WoW, but here’s the clincher - For once the story isn’t about them being bad parents, society drop-outs or some sort of deviants, it is in fact a tale of two people who met, married and enjoy playing WoW together, with positive results!
Brad and Cynthia Murdock spend time together while playing, chatting about their day, and even say the game has brought them closer together (Cynthia only started playing when TBC was launched), and has saved them a ton of money as they now stay in more often.
Founding member of Blizzard, Frank Pearce, speaks up about why he thinks more and more couples are enjoying the game together:
There’s a huge social element to the game. We’ve had this huge massive community grow out of the experience..
The community is really a big factor that draws people into the game and keeps them in the game as well..
It’s a social experience; it’s not just an entertainment experience
Further down in the article however, is a more typical WoW story. It’s about a young married man who plays WoW after his wife has gone to bed and doesn’t like to go out of the house much other than to work. He even made his wife wait to go to the hospital when she was in labour, so that he could finish a raid. I suppose a 100% positive story would be too much to hope for 
/sigh
And all for epic pauldrons of marital misery. Were they worth it