Today, after a week of not seeing each other, my boyfriend has a three day break from work. This would be great if he hadn't just told me he's having a Guild Wars 2 marathon. Now all I have to look forward to is slow wifi and anguished screams every time his character dies. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my boyfriend told me he wouldn't be able to cover his share of the rent because he didn't work during the week, saying business has been slow. I checked and found out he called in sick four times. He wanted to stay home and watch online gaming matches. FML
Today, my boyfriend and I broke up. He said it was because he wanted to 'do his own thing'. So gaming 24/7 like he has for the past two years of our relationship, then. FML
Today, my fiancé nervously sat me down for a "serious chat". The chat wound up with him asking if we could postpone our wedding, because his World of Warcraft guild had a raid scheduled for the same day. FML
Today, when my new boyfriend told me he liked playing games, he meant a 60" TV with a professional gaming chair in the middle of his living room, and 48-hour gaming marathons where he totally ignores me, refuses to sleep or shower, and only has energy drinks and cheerios. FML
Today, it was my two year anniversary with my boyfriend. As we were about to exchange gifts, he got a call and said he had to go home immediately. What was the emergency? His guild leader couldn't find another healer to finish a raid and promised my boyfriend gear if he would step up. FML
Today, after weeks of my yelling, my boyfriend finally listened and got a hobby. Instead of getting into something sensible like martial arts, he chose tabletop gaming. Now I have to listen to hours of boring stories about pretend fantasy worlds, and admit to everyone that my boyfriend is a nerd. FML
Today, my boyfriend forgot to pick our son up from daycare. His excuse? Fighting in a battle in World of Warcraft was far more important and he had to stay absolutely focused. Our son had to wait for two hours. FML
Today, my boyfriend refused to take me out on our three year anniversary because he was busy, "training to become a professional gamer." FML
Today, it became apparent that my boyfriend only showers when he levels up on World of Warcraft. FML
Today, my boyfriend dumped me because he said the relationship was too tough for him. When I asked for an example, he responded, "Like, I don't have enough time to play World of Warcraft." FML
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Cryptic17_fml 4
How about you make yourself an account and play with him?
Anapashu 0
I feel your pain... mine is the same way.
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uj_fml 4
Play with him? Some people have hobbies outside of their girlfriends, I know if may be hard to believe.
uj_fml 4
Wow I haven't been here in a while, and I'd have to say this voting system is pretty juvenile. The fact that comments get buried if some people dislike them is rather anti-free speech. Feel free to thumb down.
laden_swallow09 35
No, if it were against free speech, comments would immediately be removed after enough negative votes. Instead, you can click on "Show me" and see how truly stupid the comment is to begin with. Some of the time, it's not incorrect but merely unpopular, but really, that's uncommon. On that note, please don't tell me you support children's sports teams in which there are no losers.
DocBastard 40
Uj - What is this "free speech" of which you speak? I have go assume you're American based on that comment. Well guess what? This site is not the US. The Internet is NOT the US. This site was created by some French guys, and they run it however the hell they please. If you don't like it, you're free to leave.
ixanonymousxi 7
Freedom of speech is part of NATO if i'm not mistaken, which covers most countries
kirdypie 14
At least my boyfriend doesn't scream when his character dies.
perdix 31
It seems like one of his characters has already died -- the one that supposedly gives a shit about you. Yeah, you could try to get his attention by giving him a ******* while he plays. That might work. Giving another dude a ******* while your boyfriend plays will definitely get his attention ;)
smurfsarwales 9
After all this time perdix?
cariskunoichi 2
Seriously, join him. The best way to get his attention is to play with him. You get rewarded, trust me.
faithlessSheep 5
perhaps u could talk to him bout ur feeling. maybe 1 day for game, 2 days for u or something like that..
laden_swallow09 35
Thumbed you down purely for grammatical reasons… …and spelling, and structure, and punctuation.
DocBastard 40
I thumbed you down for not having a subject in your sentence while you were criticising someone else for poor grammar.
Xianthos 2
So many grammar nazis :3 Wondering if all those grammar nazis are able to speak more then a single language.
Kog_Hiro 17
I can get where people are saying join in, but you can't just dump him for wanting to marathon a game he's been wanting to play. I work at GameStop, I'm around games all day, my gf works at Game X Change. We do like our games, but we make time for each other. I did tell her that when the new Halo came out its a 2 day marathon followed by a full day of multiplayer on the following day off, but she said ok, but I can't touch it for the next week after. Compromise OP. It works more than some know.
astralvagan 20
Guild Wars 2 is hard...... I feel his pain.... But..... There should come a point where you set your foot down and tell him what you want too and make him stick to it
jangalianxi 6
I can symphathize with him. That's not really a game that you can fully enjoy by playing here and there a little. I just had 4 days off of work myself and spent it the exact same way, and I was finally able to meet alot of my in game goals. And that's not even 24/7 playing either. Make a compromise with him about it. Just because he has hobbies outside of you doesn't mean anything.
gader 3
I feel sorry for both of you. Have you heard about stuff more valuable than this!?
estes816 9
Just because its not valuable to YOU doesn't mean it's not valuable to them.
klorehore 24
I am playing GW2 with my boyfriend, it's really fun ;)