I know my wife felt like a wow widow when I was raiding 2 nights a week and working on 2 80′s all the time. However, I quit playing for 4 months and found a balance again. When I started playing again, I found a casual raiding guild that ran one night a week from 9-12. Now, I’m playing less than 10 hours a week. I have fun playing, but have time for and interest in other things, outside WOW.

As for girls in the game- I’m sure less than 25% of the players in the game are girls. maybe as low as 10%. They are pretty rare.

I don’t understand though why some women are so offended by their significant others playing video games. Should this person really be spending every moment with his lady? Personally, I think she should get over it and find her own thing to do.

(I’m a woman, btw)

Yes, this stereotype bothers me a great deal. And I say that as a wife who started playing WoW to spend time with her husband. We do not hide what we do in our spare time for fun and we don’t hesitate to explain/correct somebody when they make a stupid assumption about it. But unfortunately I don’t think we’ve been able to change many minds, it is so much easier to blame the game.

What does the WoW-widow stereotype have to say about THAT?

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My wife jokingly refers to herself as a “wow widow” on raid nights because someone else on another gaming site that we are both mods on called her that. She doesn’t mean it literally though. I’ve tried to get her to play, but she is a gamer too and is afraid/convinced that she will get “too” hooked lol

Like most other things, I am sure that it is easier to blame what is at hand rather to accept some responsibility and really figure out what is going on.

I also love it when I hear father/mother and son/daughter stories about WoW. I don’t know why more people don’t make it a family affair! At least that way they know where their kids are and what they are doing

Apparently I’m just out of touch, as Brade was also familiar with the term.

It is too bad that the term is what it is. I do think that there can be contentment in relationships where a gamer is involved, but just like everything else it takes communication and understanding from their partner. And probably some compromise from both parties involved… but then again, what in a relationship doesn’t?

I can’t help but agree that often the game is not the underlying problem in a lot of relationships.

I certainly don’t want to imply that you should forego relationships over a game, but I also think that it is wrong to assume that the game is THE problem. If you are unhappy about something in your relationship, it would seem to me that you would want to communicate and compromise.