I was chatting to one of my friends today and he tried to convince me to rejoin world of warcraft.
I am so tempted you just don't understand seeing my priest and mage again would be great even
doing raids even grinding, lol I miss it so much but the only thing that is keeping me away is the fact
that I know I cannot control my gaming times and the look of sadness my wife would have on her
face if I rejoined this is getting really hardA :-[ sigh
A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Spixtar
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde
Spixtar good for you for coming here and posting instead of giving in to temptation! Congatulations on putting your real life relationships first! There IS a difference and RL rocks! Jane in CT
Thanks Jane I decided to rather come here and read through the forums and see what it does to people again and it just reminds me each time of how much time I have wasted and that I don't want be in the same boat again. Spixtar Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, in as much as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. John Keats
I too, know that "look" on my dear wifes face.
"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative." --W. Clement Stone
Hi Spixtar, When I hear this, I always feel sad. I always look at it this way: are people who support your choice to remain sober/clean/abstinent from gaming your friends or are the people trying to hook you, your friends? If I look at this for what it is, it makes me mad. Those people don't have my best interests at heart because they are only looking at their own selfish perspective of wanting to have a gaming buddy and not looking at supporting me. They are actually trying to rope me into an activity that has proven to be harmful to me, without giving a hoot about my well-being. Wow, what kinds of friends are those and are those the kind that I want in my life? Although I have not had to deal with this in my gaming addiction, I have had to deal with it more than once in other addictions. Also, I have unfortunately been on the other end of it. Years ago my roommate told me she thought she had a problem with alcohol and decided to quit drinking. I was drinking heavily at the time and instead of being there to support her, all I could think about was that I was losing a drinking buddy and that made me feel a little more alone. Since I could not handle it, all I tried to do constantly was make her drink. It was a selfish and immature thing to do and I was very sick. I did not support her, I did not have her best interests at heart. All I cared about was my own selfish needs. I was not a friend to her. I hope that you will be kind to yourself and remember that you are worth all of the good friends and good support that anyone can give you.