This woman believes that her Husband is addicted to video games.

She is a stay-at-home mother, and her husband is in the military. He works the night shift, and depending on the week, he usually has anywhere from two to five days off.

Since she and their 3-year-old son, who is disabled, have essentially the opposite schedule as her husband, he spends each night that he has off work playing video games while they sleep.

Not only does her husband play video games all night on the nights he doesn’t have to work, but he also spends any free time he has when he’s not getting ready for work on his video games.

About twice a week for months on end, she has discussed her concern about his addiction to video games. He’s assured her that he will play less, but it’s never actually happened.

Unfortunately, her husband doesn’t help out with anything around the house. He doesn’t do the laundry, cook, do the dishes, or clean.

Even though she’s okay with this for the most part since she stays home to take care of their son, it’s a lot of work to clean up after her husband because he’s really sloppy.

Several nights ago, she asked him if he could make sure to clean the kitchen. Since he had the night off from work, he promised her that he would and told her that he had the entire night to get it done. She gave him several reminders before she headed to bed.

“I woke up at 2 a.m. to our son standing beside his dad’s gaming desk, crying. His gaming desk is in our living area, and I accidentally fell asleep on the couch, so I woke up to our son crying and watched the whole interaction. My husband was telling our son to give him a few minutes because he was in a game,” she said.

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Their son was crying because he wanted her husband to lay with him, but her husband finished his game while their son continued crying before he put their son back to bed.

Once her husband returned to his desk, she made it clear that she was awake, telling him that he was cruel for allowing their son to sob like that while he kept playing his video game.

In her response, her husband said that she didn’t know what happened since she’d been asleep on the couch, not realizing that she’d actually been silently watching the situation unfold.

Understandably furious, she walked away to lay with her son to make him feel better, and she finally fell back to sleep.

When she woke up the following morning, she discovered that her husband hadn’t cleaned the kitchen like he promised he would. Instead, he played video games all night, and he told her that cleaning slipped his mind.

However, she was aware of the fact that he walked in and out of the kitchen several times to grab food and drinks as he gamed all night, so it was impossible that he didn’t see the mess he’d made and neglected to clean.

After telling her that he “forgot” to clean the kitchen, her husband went to sleep, meaning that once again, she was the one who ended up cleaning his mess. Even though she obviously wasn’t thrilled about this, she wanted to have a clean house because they had a maintenance person stopping by that day.

“It’s so much deeper than not cleaning the kitchen: It’s months of neglecting his duties as a father and husband to play video games. After he went to sleep, I hid his laptop and Xbox. If he wants to treat me like his mother, I will act like it. I have tried talking about this for months, but it is like talking to a wall,” she explained.

She has been researching couples therapy, but because of their son’s special needs, she needs to find a virtual option. Plus, trying to find a therapist who will accept their insurance has been difficult as well.

Later on, her husband woke up, and she essentially had an “‘intervention'” with him. She told him about her experience with her parents suffering from addiction, and her husband talked about how his father wasn’t present in his life.

They both discussed that if they replicated either of these situations within their marriage, it would have severe, negative ramifications, and their son would be forever changed by growing up in that type of environment.

“I basically gave him a physical representation. The games are gone today. You can take the Xbox and laptop right now and leave, or we can have a conversation about placing limits on gaming time, his effort into the family, and seeking marriage counseling,” she shared.

“He talked more to me than he ever has in any conversation about this before. I guess because it was different than the past conversations with the ultimatum and talking about his dad (which I never do because it’s a sensitive subject for him).”

Once their discussion was over, her husband didn’t try to find out where she’d hidden his Xbox and laptop.

Surprisingly, he didn’t talk about video games after their talk. She thought this was promising because if her husband had had a tantrum over all of this, it would have meant to her that he may never want to change.

Then, her husband asked her if she felt up to watching a movie with him, so she agreed. Her husband also spent some time playing with their son before he had to go to work.

Prior to her husband leaving the house to head to work, she said that she’d have his laptop and Xbox hooked up and ready for him before he got home.

Once in a while, her husband gets done with work early.

For example, he might get done between 2 and 4 a.m. when his schedule has him working until 6 a.m.

She clarified that she doesn’t mind that her husband plays video games after he comes home while she and their son are sleeping.

She acknowledged that he has an opposite schedule from them. However, her issue is with him playing video games instead of taking care of their son or cleaning when he needs to.

She wants her husband to be able to prioritize his family and their house and spend less time obsessively playing video games.

Now, she hopes that she has made a breakthrough and that her husband will finally start to take her concerns seriously. But she knows that she will have to see how everything plays out.

What would you do if you were in her shoes?

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