DP and his f*****g x-box

[plj]

AIBU to be psychotically enraged with DP who sits up till 2am on x-box, comes to bed, crashes out and doesn't surface for 8 solid hours?

Meanwhile, I have to go to bed, early and alone, as am up 3-4 times during night with twins, and up on my own with them both at 7am every morning.

AIBU to consider seriously sabotaging the damned thing?

Is yours like mine, and you can spend the evening in the same room without actually exhanging a word as he is talking to the console (sorry, shouting at), and then barely registers the fact that you have said goodnight and departed? The only way I can get him to come to bed at the same time as me is to blatantly state that sex will be on the agenda!

You need to:

Create a xbox user account

Go buy yourself a wireless pink controller and head phone

Start playing COD4 online.

join a fdemale clan if possible, if not just play yourself!

it is very addictive (dont knock it till u have tried it!), so make dh share!!!

How long as he had it plj???? Does he take it back to work with him??

If not, keep it on at all times...it will eventually have the red ring of death.

DP's went a few weeks ago..it was nearly a year old...ds went a few days later...fingers crossed

Oh yes - We have had the ring of death.

It had to be sent off to be fixed. DH could not wait 2 weeks, so went straight out and bought a new one.

Now we have two

Maybe you should give him a sticker chart, and reward good behaviour (helping out, early night with you) with console time?!

Sounds patronising, but I'm only half joking, it is childish behaviour not helping you.
No matter what habits you have before kids, you agree to have them together, and take the responsibilities that come with it...

You are lucky. We have had the ring of death.... and he just bought another

LostGirl-do we live in the same house!?
That scenario is all to familiar!

X-Box playing just not for me. Am sure DP would be most peeeed off at having to share his toys!

Yes DP did the same..and bought the elite one......so other ds is having his old one when it returns....

so that will be 3 of them on-line....then come 8 o'clock he starts moaning that ds is on-line as it starts slowing down his 'ping' or something......

i'll give him a blardy ping one day

Yep - I get moaned at for MN'ing in the evenings because it causes too much .... lag.

Well, the ring of death is a new one to me. What is it? Will it upset him, and if so, how do I get it to happen?

yeah yeah...lag....heard a comment or two about that.....

i do wonder some nights if i were to sit naked on the sofa , how long it would take him to notice

but its too blardy cold now, so stuff him!

The ring turns red, instead of green and it basically just stops working.

Microsoft will normally fix them.

Is there a facebook group for x-box widows we can all join?! It wouldn't annoy me so much if it wasn't for the fact that I spend my evenings ironing/cleaning etc to the background noise of fifa 09 or Halo, have to go to bed early, get up through the night, get up ridiculously early with the kids, I would have no time to play on it even if I had the inclination (or in fact just the basic co-ordination to play computer games, which I seem to lack).

ido - LOL

I think it comes to all x-boxs in the end plj...leave it on if you can....and wait.

One day it will just die....where the 'on' button is it will light up red instead of yellowy/green.....doomed

DP got wireless for me to use laptop in evenings, as he thought it would give me something to do (keep me out of his hair more like) but he too moans when I am actually on it.

yes-and make sure there are no available funds for him to go and buy a new one

idobelievinghosts = sitting naked has no effect, if you want attention you have to stand in front of the screen and say very loudly 'sex', and you might get a response.

It's nice to know im not the only one out there that lives with an x-box addict.

It has actually been depressing me a bit lately that we just never spend any time together in the evenings.

My DH is all chat, chat and laughing etc on his head-phones, and a right miserable fucker the rest of the time.

May try the ring of death option first, as I do agree with idobelievinghosts the getting naked option just won't be happening in this weather!

I have come close to sabotaging the xbox and wii on several occasions (would blame on ds1 obviously and look wide-eyed and innocent).

In my dh's defence he still has to get up early after staying up all hours playing with it. It is the noise that drives me potty.

AbbaFan-I truly do sympathise with you. All joking aside, it can get depressing. I spend 2 weeks stuck in the house by myself when he's away, and all I want is his company and converstaion in an evening when he's home. I would even compromise, and not expect that every evening, but once in a while would be nice.

Haven't read replies, but have no patience for grown men who spend hours playing computer games. It's pathetic.

crap isn't it? I spend all day basically talking to myself as dd2 can't talk yet, and dd1 has selective deafness! /then spend all evening talking to myself as I don't really count 'mm hmm' as a conversational response.

Wholeheartedly agree mrs mattie.

A friend of mine was sick of the playstation and wedged a jam sandwich inside it saying it was the toddler who did it.

Can you do this with the x box?

I wouldn't stand for it tbh, trip the electric at 11pm, I say.