Lindsey,

I respect your position. My husband has been playing WoW since October 2006. At the time he was working on his PhD. He hated the program and then failed his comps. He decided that would be his last semester, after two and a half years. He was only half way done. Enter WoW. He played it non-stop. I would go to work, and come home to the exact mess I left and then some. We have a son who's almost three. WoW takes up so much of my husband's time that he could be spending with our son and I. It doesn't get better. It's an addiction and should be treated as such. My husband actually took a job almost 4 hours away and he works 10 days on and 4 days off. I made him a deal that I would agree to him being gone for the job if he agreed that there would be no WoW at all when he was home...even if my son and I were already in bed. He said it would be hard but he agreed. We are on his first 10 days of fieldwork. He comes home Thursday. We'll see how it goes. But the sad part is that I don't really miss him. He's been gone for six days. I miss talking to him and all but I've realized that when he's here, he's not really here at all. Please don't settle for someone who will take you for granted. Marriage is so huge and bringing children into the equation is even bigger. He should respect you and your relationship more than the game. I put up with this b/c I love my husband and b/c we have a son together. I wonder a lot, how it will be 10-15 years from now...will he still be playing? Will it be a different game that he's addicted to? Or will he come around and be the husband I want him to be?

Good luck to you.