BJ is absolutely OBSESSED with video games...particularly football and sports crap. Since we've been together (like 3 years) he has had like 3 new X-Boxes because they keep breaking. And no matter how much money is in the bank, once the X-Box breaks, he MUST get a new one. Right then. No exception. I have seriously seen him have a spastic meltdown over the friggin' thing.
Luckily, the last one was bought new and with an extended warranty.
So when it broke last week, all he had to do is take it to Best Buy and they fixed it...but he was without an X-Box for like 5 days...and this was College Football week...you know, the new College Football game that came out? Yeah, I didn't know about it either...apparently it is a big deal. So big, in fact, that he had to go to Target at 8 in the morning and get it (even when he didn't have an X-Box)...yes...at the doors when they opened. To play a game he didn't have a system to play on. After he bought his own copy, he spent the day at his buddy's house playing. And several hours the next day.
And because he FINALLY got his system back last night, he played until the wee hours of the morning and then got up...he's up right now, 7:30 am, to play. He just announced to me that the "first game of the high school play offs is against Fitzgerald"...like i care. I saw REAL PLAY OFF GAMES in Fitzgerald...does he seriously think this matters???
I get that everyone should have something they enjoy doing...something that makes them happy...something that is fun...but I think my husband is sick and needs help. He has unhealthy obsessions with things like golf, video games, gadgets...obsessions that are only quinched in the moment and must be met at those exact times...they are scary.
I do not understand how grown men can spend hours (when they could be working, reading, god forbid, helping us around the house) playing some stupid video game. Apparently he's in a "dynasty" whatever the hell that means. I don't think I want to know.
I would just like an explanation...especially since I know if I went into my living room right now butt naked and tried to seduce him, he would push me out the way and tell me "I'm not in the mood"...
WHAT IS WRONG WITH BOYS??????
Oh sweetie...you're not alone in this at all. First of all, be thankful that he's playing a sports game on Xbox and not obsessing over something that involves shooting or aliens, etc.
ReplyDeleteHere's the thing about the obsession with sports games (especially football)...those games are designed to be simulations...as in as realistic as you can get with a machine. For a guy, playing this video game of something that could have happened is like living vicariously through a child.
It's not like he's one of those weirdo kids obsessed with Warcraft or whatever that monster game is...When he's playing the game, he's secretly saying in his head, "If Coach had just played me more in high school, I could have x, y, and z..." I can guarantee you that he spent probably 45 minutes created a character in the football game that looks exactly like him...except it's probably built like the quarterback that he never was.
He's fantasizing about what could have been....at least he's not fantasizing about another woman
preaching to the choir, preaching to the choir...
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