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AIBU?

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AIBU about the fucking computer game?

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DisappointedOne · 08/09/2015 00:17

DH is working from home at the moment. A year or so ago he started playing a game on the PS3 a couple of evenings a week. It was fine, although I don't really "get" the appeal and I asked that he not play it when DD was around as it's not suitable.

Over the last 2-3 months it's progressed to playing in a team online, and there's some major deadline to complete something in the next couple of weeks. Initially he was running planned sessions past me before agreeing to them. Now he's just going ahead and doing it, and it's every night. Through the summer it would start at 10pm (with him "warming up" from about 9pm) and finish somewhere between 1am and 2am. Tonight it was starting at 8pm, so he turned the thing on at about 7pm (and hasn't moved since).

Now, I get that he feels isolated working from home. And I don't object to him playing occasionally, but this is getting on my nerves now. I end up in another room (can't talk or make noise or walk in front of him when he's gaming as whoever is on his headset can hear me and it's too distracting) watching TV on my iPad. He comes to bed long after I'm asleep and leaves me to sort DD out in the morning (the late nights means he's getting up at 9:30am-ish to start work at 10am).

I've tried explaining it calmly, I've tried shouting, I've gone on strike, I've done everything but cut the plug off the fucking thing and bounce his head off the wall. What am I doing wrong here?!

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MiaowTheCat · 14/09/2015 12:26

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Penfold007 · 14/09/2015 12:38

I think it may be time for you to really assert yourself (blow your top). He needs to 'play' and work in the office not a family room. His laundry is simple it stays in the laundry bin until he does it.
He needs to decide which is important, family or gaming

Alconleigh · 14/09/2015 12:51

This must be killing your desire and love stone dead OP, which he needs to understand. I know I simply couldn't bring myself to have sex with some monosyllabic, checked out, overgrown teen constantly hunched over his feeble alternate universe.....I'd be contemptuous of him, and that's the surest death knell. He needs to know how bad this is. Blowing your top may work, but it depends how he responds to anger....some people just close down.

BrendaandEddie · 14/09/2015 14:52

i think you blowing your top or smashing the pc might be the only way!

nb Jeffrey I dont condone violence against men, yes it is criminal damage

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