in thinking that DH is a bit of a lost cause in this respect?

[IHatetheXBox]

...that at age 42, with 2 DCs, he still dedicates waaaay too much of his free time on his x-box?
Anyone else here a fellow widow? Why do some men persist in this childish pursuit?
Drives me maaaaaaaaaaddddddd!

Exactly Flame, as long as they can stop what they're doing when needed how is it any worse than any other hobby? Or any activity that you do?

count yourself lucky - I'm a TalkSport widow

Any opportunity he locks himself in the kitchen with Talksport blaring away. I hate it.

Well said Flame

Oh dear. We are BOTH gamers here. Play Warcraft together, Dark Age of Camelot - I picked up the latest Tombraider for the xbox for us yesterday.

I have a Stargate problem and we have plenty of Star Wars/Trek crap around the place.

We met playing Dungeons & Dragons

MY problem is shooing the husbands of our friends out of our house, cause I one commented "It is the house of kids with money"

Being a nerdy girl has payed MASSIVE dividends over the years

Flame there is no issue if your DH will stop playing when you need him to. DH will play Star Wars on the Wii for ages but if I want him to do something, we need to eat/go out or DS needs a clean bum/attention or whatever then he will stop.

I feel very sorry for women with DH/P's though that can't be moved from in front of their PC/console. It can be just as damaging to a relationship as alcoholism or any other addiction.

Personally I'd rather have someone hooked on WoW than the football...

I feel really sorry for my friends who are "football widows".

Plus a lot of us can't talk, I'm glued to MN!!!

My dh is hooked on WOW.

I like the fact that he has his 'hobby' and i have mine. I would no more stop him from doing it then him makng me stop cross stitching. And i get to watch what i like on the telly .

and he does/and always has done the late feed as he doesn't go to bed untill 2ish anyway.

Mine has just started playing on Wow, and I must say I love the change in him! He isn't down the pub or in the house drinking, he will quite happily show me what he is doing, he will turn it off when me or dd need him, and he is generally more relaxed and happy generally. We sit next to each other on our laptops, me on here and him on wow, and it feels really close We don't have a tv, so a lot of our time used to be spent with me on the internet and him in the pub, but now we are actually spending time together and having cobnverstations over our laptops

AAAGH! Bloody Championship Manager. It's the worst. Because DH can't multi-task, I have these ridiculous conversations with him where he has a 30 secs delay on any of his responses. Worse, he'll start a conversation.... then delay while scrolling down the screen to buy some stupid frickin' player.... then get moody if I interrupt, or mooch off to do something else....

Please don't mention "call of duty", my DH plays on line with his brother, chatting through headsets.

His brother lives across the street! but apparently playing in the same room involves a split screen - heaven forbid!!!

I must admit that I have played Wow myself... quite a lot when DD was tiny... It is rather addictive and very harmless!

We have had problems with WoW in the past, but a few arguments later, and family got put above instances.

glad to see so many other mumsnetters are experiencing the same things!

I'm a WOW widow, dh plays it for about 2 hours a night.... but he is a mumsnet and travian widower. Generally we sit in the living room together on our laptops, with the TV on and one of the hamsters roaming the table, our feet, or anywhere else it can get to. I suspect this might be our post-bedtime relaxation after bump comes out and grows up a bit too!

if you can't beat em, join em I say - at least it's not football, and WOW does have cute animals on it.

feeling wot your saying mine is the same. does my head in