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Hi! My name is Miss Tattoo and I am a video game widow. ^_^
I use to be a WoW widow, but right now I am a Boarderlands and Left for Dead 2 widow. I am trying to control the urge to go downstairs and turn the main breaker off.
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I just wanted to get some tonight especially after a long day at work, but instead I get to hang out on the bee and listen to him and his friends talk about head shots over the headset. Lame!
I am not a video game widow but I am a Wrestling widow. SO coaches wrestling and his whole brain is occupied by the sport at this time of year.
I'm sorry that you are husbandless at the moment though. If I were you I'de go shake his ass up! Pull a desperate housewives Susan style and clean your house in a nighty ;)
I'm definitely a hockey widow. DH's best friend just got a brand new 50 inch TV. I assume I won't see him during playoffs.
@zippylef: I use to play video games and then I grew out of it. I mean, I still play Sims 2 once in a while, but I can't sit on the couch for 8 hours and just play. FI does nothing on his days off and at night after dinner he is on the xbox. Then he complains he's so tired in the morning. UGH.
Black ops! He plays it NON STOP!!! It used to be Halo 3 but he got rid of it to get Halo: Reach and dropped that for COD: Black Ops. We used to play WOW together but the 360 is cheaper so now I'm a widdow. :( lol
I'm kind of jealous of the way he touches his xbox controller. >_<
It started with halo 3, then COD modern warfare.. but my partner moved on to many other games, Assassains creed, fallout 3, left for dead, mass effect, oblivion, dead rising (1&2), soul calibre IV, etc etc.. basically whatever he is playing through at the time.
Lately It isn't video games that widow me, but mucho overtime & 2am callouts.
starcraft 2. if i don't ever hear the sound of machine guns again...well i guess that's anyone.
@feministbride: us too! And any other MMO or two player that comes into the house :D
I used to be ignored for Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead with an ex, and sometimes even for WoW- even when I played with him. I'm happy to play with my FI though :D Since we both love the game (and met at a convention by the people who make the game, where he later proposed) it's wonderful to spend time with him every day playing it :)
LOL! This week it's Madden, last week it was Assassin's Creed, before that it was Ghostbusters. Usually it's not online, but, wow, it's kind of pathetic.
He's getting Black Ops eventually too. Sigh, we had a double date with another couple and the guys played Black Ops so the wives went to the mall. LOL
We occasionally game together. I LOVE Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2! Love love! However DH is really into Halo Reach right now and I only like playing campagine mode with Halo. So he plays with BIL or alone sometimes. He always asks first and I can always tear him away. But I like it because it gives me time to read and know that he's doing something he loves as well.
Occasional Star Craft Widdow... but he usually times it while I'm watching America's Next Top Model or the such, so it's okay :) While I'm not a huge gamer, I'm hoping to get a Wii during the first year we live together because it'll be so much fun to play that together!
LOVE the thread topic btw :)
Computer: WoW
Xbox: nhl '11 (which i bought him as our anniversary gift) Aaaand I just bought him a wii for christmas (Like he needs another gaming system, but its what he wanted soooo.....)
definitely a sports widow, especially hockey - he plays goal in the winter and ball in the summer in rec leagues. we watch OHL games together, but not NHL. He could just throw on tsn/sportsnet and listen to it all day. Me not so much.
We have a Wii and a PS3. Most of the time we play together (I've been on a super smash brothers kick lately), but sometimes I'll read or study while he's playing. Also, Uncharted 2 was so great I would encourage him to play because I simply loved watching and helping with the puzzles!
Right now it's Fall Out New Vegas. I hate that game and have to resist the urge to destroy it daily.
Currently I'm a DJ widow. I made the mistake of buying future hubby a real DJ set a few months ago, and that's all he does. All. he. does. I'm sure when the next RPG comes out, I'll be a widow to that - basically any cool RPG that comes out on PS3 wins. I should start wearing black.
Black Ops, but I don't really mind. The only thing I HATE is when he's playing online and all you hear are the tinny voices of the other people online.
Right now SO is obessed with the new Assassins Creed.
I tried to play video games with him but I am terrible at them. This past weekend SO wanted me to play Portal and that was not pretty. I made it to a level in the teens but that game stressed me out. Haha.
Video games are a group activity for us, we play them together or we go over to our friend's house. However, FI just really got into trading card games, and I'm now a Magic the Gathering widow :(
Assasins creed.. buuuut luckily we both love that game. I'm trying to beat it before he does, which is working out in my favor because I'm home so much more than he is =)
@rampagingcoconut: You guys met at Blizzcon? That is so awesome. I would LOVE to hear that story!
(we used to WoW together too... but then he moved on to other stuff, and I was the one left saying "Well I can't go out tonight, I have to raid!") (but now neither of us play)
Used to be WoW, now it's League of Legends... I play sometimes, but I just can't sit in front of the computer all night... Plus, I really SUCK so it's no fun playing online multi-player games when your team mates are all screaming at you because you die every 30 seconds.
....I stick with Tetris.
@Lozza: We were both in costume, I was actually with someone at the time- the said ex who ignored me constantly for video games. I had told the ex months before that if he didn't start treating me better, I'd leave him, to which he kind of looked at me, shrugged and said okay, and went back to his video games... and did nothing. So I was in costume at Blizzcon (as a Draenei) and my FI was in a human priest costume, and we just immediately hit it off- my ex was the one who kept inviting him to hang out with us, but it was me and him who were talking all night long, all weekend. I moved across the country to be with him (tried to give ex a chance but he blew it so many times) and now I'm happier than I've ever been. Then a year later (this year) he proposed at Blizzcon, in costume :) Here's a pic:
http://pics.boards.weddingbee.com/176389.65907_1481528631389_1029005503_3129820.jpg
I used to be a WoW widow, but then we had children. And it's almost impossible to maintain a relationship with your SO and kids when you have scheduled raids. He actually realized he had a problem, and quit WoW cold turkey lol. So now he plays Starcraft, SIGH. But I can't complain, we recently moved an hour away from our hometown and it's really the only way he communicates with his friends.
Anything to do with WW2 or zombies. I don't even know the name of the games - but luckily he only plays whenever I'm busy doing something else.
Oh! I did want to say that for you other video game widows, some of the guys I play with don't play with their FI or wives, pretty much because they're just not interested. If it's bothering you, I'd suggest talking to them, and maybe finding a hobby for yourself for when they do play, and make sure to schedule time together- I know that with WoW, my FI and I are busy playing 4-5 hours a night 4 days a week, and sometimes more often than that, and the one of the guys we play with's wife works a lot (she's a manager at a big chain store) and when she's not, she's working out and learning new things, mostly self defense stuff. Another lady is in school and volunteers, and they set up a time that they spend together if it gets to be too much. It's not uncommon to hear 'Gotta go guys, gonna spend time with my wife', and even my FI does that, if I'm not feeling into WoW at the time or if I just want to get out of the house with him. It's about knowing that you're priority over the game. If he plays WoW and raids, then know what time the raiding is. And if you haven't already, give it a try, it just takes determination (and it's really cheap to buy right now, I think $40 for all three boxes before the expansion? Not bad compared to what it was.)
Black Ops. I dont mind much, it only gets annoying when he is talking shit to the other players. Then he gets on a kick and starts joking with me like that... one icy stare and he realizes I am his fiance, not a smelly boy gamer (refering to his friends, not to any of the lovely bee ladies that play).
Black Ops=Black Hole.
My FI plays almost from the time he gets home to the time he goes to bed. Especially the online zombie portion of the game. Last night he played until 3 and then complained when I got up to go to work this morning at 6.
I LIKE video games, that's totally not the issue. And we have been known to waste away a weekend or two playing Left 4 Dead on the Xbox. I just can't keep up on the playstation and then he gets frustrated at me for dying so often. It's less stressful for me to leave him alone.
There are times, though, that I just want to scream, "it's a GAME! Pause it, turn it off, I'm right here!" I hold my tongue because I try not to be that dramatic :).
I wouldn't care if it was an hour but he's a grown ass man and doesn't need to be playing video for 8 hours every night after work. I'm glad he stopped playing WoW because I was seriously going to wig out.
@Miss Tattoo: I used to deal with this too... Now he only plays on certain nights. Like Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays are video game nights. Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays are Tina nights. I promise to leave him alone on game nights and he promises to hang out with me on non-game nights. It's actually worked out pretty well for us... Unless of course friends invite us out on a Monday night or my birthday falls on a Thursday (like it did 2 weeks ago)... Haha, but it's all about compromise!!
My husbands friend Jerry called me the other day and the conversation went something liket this:
Him: Hey Jamie... do you and Roman want to come over today? I'm off work and I'm really bored. It's just me and Ry here.
Me: Maybe later, we have some things to take care of and we want to take Brooklyn to see tangled. Do you guys want to go see a movie?
Him: Not really... I wanted you guys to come over because I just got the new black ops game and I wanted to play with Roman while you watched the kids.
Me: dialtone.
I honestly think it's weird that grown men want to get together and "play" while the mom has to take care of the actual kids. Um, no!
@Miss Tattoo:AMEN!!
OMG my SO's obsession with WoW was out of control!!! I couldn't go out with friends, or do anything because while he was raiding he literally could not leave the computer should our children need anything (diaper change, new bottle, cuddles etc) So me going and getting a hobby while he was gaming out was not an option. And not to mention his raids started at 630 and he often wasn't done before midnight. So we didn't see him at supper time, and I went to bed alone. He did this 4 nights a week, and IMO that was 4 nights too many. I cannot even express how happy I am now that he doesn't play!
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