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My husband has been playing WOW for about a year now. He is always playing. He has headphones and a microphone and everything. He also has my 11.5 year old daughter playing too. We have had so many fights about it and his playing and he tells me he will cut back, he does for a while and then he is right back at it all the time. We have been married for 14 years, have known each other for 18 and used to be very close. I feel like I am losing my husband because it seems as if he would rather play that stupid game than spend any time with me. I am a stay-at-home mom so I don't get any contact with another person until he comes home or my daughter comes home from school. The big problem is that he has, in the past, met a woman on the internet and one day told me that he didn't think he loved me anymore and then actually drove to Florida to meet her. He came back as soon as he got there-maybe it was guilt. We saw a marriage counselor for a long time and things got worked out. That was 9 years ago. But last year he and my best friend kissed. My best friend fessed up, I was a mess. He fessed up too after a few weeks and I lost it. I overdosed on Klonopin and tried to kill myself. He called an ambulance and I was taken to the hospital. Once again we saw the marriage counselor and I thought things were OK. Now this....and I have a hard time trusting him because I know he is playing with other women and I often wonder if he is talking to another woman or whatever. I am so upset and so scared and I don't know what to do or believe. When I question him about talking to women he says he just plays the game and that is it. Nothing more. And then he gets angry with me for thinking that and then we start fighting. I am tired of all of this.........I don't know if I should file for divorce or not. I feel like it a lot of the time. But I love my husband and I don't want to be the one to tear my family apart. I have no job and I really don't know how I would support myself or where I would go. I am so upset and I just don't want to deal with this anymore.......it is tearing my world and heart apart.
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Re: I don't know what to do or believe anymore.......
Sun, April 20, 2008 - 10:24 PMHi Lesley,
You really need to tell him how you feel...that the game is bringing up past issues for you and that he's neglecting your marriage. You could bring this up in therapy. My husband is addicted too...it's never a fun conversation and he gets so defensive when I complain about his playing. Just as anyone with an addiction does.
Good luck,
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Re: I don't know what to do or believe anymore.......
Mon, May 5, 2008 - 11:55 AMI understand what you are feeling, but I don't understand how it has to do with the game. It seems like your grief is coming from fights in the past before your husband started to play world of warcraft. It really doesn't sound like your problem is world of warcraft ,I think it might be something bigger than that. It seems like it is just marriage problems, with little to do about WoW (world of warcraft) But good luck with it.
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Re: I don't know what to do or believe anymore.......
Mon, February 9, 2009 - 12:53 PMchop up wow infront of him, get your friends to tie him up and make him watch you delete his wow stuff from his computer then divorce him, sure you'll leave him broken but he might recover, if he does then start over