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to those that are married, have girlfriends (real life), or have children...
i'm just curious... i'm 25, about to turn 26. i've had several relationships that all overlapped my hardcore gaming patterns.
this has gotten in the way for a a couple of these relationships... like seriously causing issues in regards to cuddling time, attention, and my overall life on pause since i did nothing else...
how did you guys cope with it... or have you guys at all?
Simply put - a real life girl is a million times better than any virtual fantasy.
Therefore, you shouldn't be ignoring your girlfriend to play games. Instead, you should wait until they show an interest in the games that you do play (and go out of your way to stop playing and pay attention to them) to introduce them to online gaming.
My gf has turned out to be a major gamer. She's awesome. One would never have guessed it at the outset of our relationship but over the past year she has taken to gaming like a fish to water.
In FPSers she's a sniper.
In RTSers she's a builder and then an "overwhelming rush" type.
In WoW she was (in the open beta test) and will be a rogue.
For Halo 2 she'll wake me up at 4am to play....
When we start in on WoW we'll be playing on side by side computers (sure, it sounds goofy but it is a lot of fun).
I had a girlfriend a few back that was absolutely obsessed with the first Sims game. It's all she wanted to do when we hung out. I was not that impressed with the game, but she was so hot I let it go for about 2 months. Finally I suggested we do something else for a change and it worked for a bit. Obviously, this is the opposite case most have because I left her after about 7 months. :(
The next girlfriend I had right after that one didn't play any video games. So I was the culprit this time. She left me. :(
Through these two extremes and a few in the middle I have found that you cannot do without either.
Currently, I game while I'm at school since I can't see my girlfriend then. When I get breaks or during the summer, I go back home and hang out with her and keep gaming to an absolute minimum (ie 1 hour every 2 days at best). She likes to play consoles every now and then so that's really my 1 hour most of the time.
This is a tough one. Women get the most frustrated when they feel anything is more important than them. So the trick is to make them feel important. The second truth is if youre women feels like she is important to you they useally try to let you do things that you enjoy.
Now that you have let her know how important she is there is a couple matters of upkeep. If the woman is doing all the cooking cleaning putting the kids to bed at night while you sit and play, watch out, the women will blow up and rightly so. One needs to be proactive to get the best milage in the making them feel important part. So make special dinners, offer to help with dishes, put one of the kids to bed, Vacum the floor, but leave out the vacum so she knows you did it, do a load of laundry while playing will go a longs ways to keeping a family happy together. And lastly plan a night out for some loving time or you can kiss all the goodwill away. No woman likes playing second fiddle all the time to a game.
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