I have a very hard time being nice to my boys IRL when I see this shit. If you have a wife, then you have to stop pretending you can live like all your buttfuck-single friends. Nothing looks more selfish to the rest of the fam than you cloistering yourself in the den for a 3-day vidya binge all alone, totally avoiding them until it’s time to drag your ass to work again.
You’re a man and a husband, you have better uses for your very limited free time than staring at a box and playing globohomo simulator 38. Nobody likes to hear it, but it’s life. You can’t be seventeen forever, and you’re a fool if you try to live the same perma-teen lifestyle the average guy does into his late 20’s.
Even more nasty to see it in a father. The “cool dads” into gaming that I saw growing up mostly divorced, not just because of the games, but it’s a measure of how self-centered and blind to their family they were. It shows where your priorities lie.
If you want to play video games, you’d better be playing them with family so that you’re spending some kind of time bonding and being an influence in your kids’ lives. Playing alone is nasty. Every time friends get this talk they get pissy with me instead of just being honest with themselves and realizing they’re indulging in a vice and wasting their time. Once you realize the time you’re wasting, you can start to take measures to overcome it.
But if you refuse and cope about how it’s totally cool and fine to be a 26 yo husband spending his time the exact same way he did at 14….well bud your marriage is taking some lumps you’ll have to watch out for.
RT: https://poa.st/objects/e75cbab3-be81-4143-8234-d9c4415c5f85
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