I was supposed to go out to have dinner with some friends from class and my boyfriend, but he decided not to go since he was raiding. Mind you, we rarely go out together at all anymore. I have lost sympathy for his WoW excuses. "The only raid happening this weekend?" I understand the game is a social game, but it just seems so silly to me. It's like a binding contract or something where he'd actually lose something meaningful if he didn't raid. I have online friends, too, but deng. These people unconsciously hinder his progress in the real world just so they can use his level 60 whatever in a raid without a second thought. He never played WoW this much when we first started dating back in December. That all changed in January when the expansion came out.

He stopped calling to say good night, and he always wakes up around 1-3 p.m. now. Let me explain my Valentine's Day: we had class at 6, and he meets me at 3:30, in which we just sit around because he's too tired to do anything from a long night of WoW. On another day, I was over at his house (which is a 45-minute drive from mine) where I met him at his PC. Why would anyone play WoW when you have company over? It's just rude. I tried crawling in his lap so we could, you know, get jiggy with it, but he just looked at me and said "I'll pay attention to you later when I'm done with this." Then when some stupid crap pisses him off in the game (he couldn't go on some raid because there was a limit on people and he signed up but they dropped him in all the confusion or something), he lets it affect his real-life mood.

So, I've pulled the break-up card now, hoping for something good. My demands aren't even incredible. All I ask for is that he puts me before WoW. Not even giving it up, but to put my being before a video game. Take me out occasionally instead of using debt money on a second monitor and a video card to keep me happy. I'm going to start blowing him off when he wants to hang out. Tit-for-tat and such.