Hubby addicted to WOW?

Computers are great but even this online message board can get addictive. I think the marketing people design these things so people get hooked. I do agree with changing your environment

Just as food gives us a jolt of pleasure via the brain's reward pathway, so do our social interactions and environmental circumstances. I think you shuld keep a positive environment so he'll be more interested in participatting. Right now, he's running away from the arguments. Reward him for being such a great father. Tell him a positive of how your life is better with him in it. Hope it helps...

First off, WoW is not a drug. You do NOT become addicted to it. I play, I used to swear that I played too much (maybe 3-4 hours a day) but since I got married, I may manage 1-2 hours at a time (not everyday).

YOu are attacking the problem wrong. Give him an alternative. Don't just say "Don't play WoW.". Try "Let's go out to dinner tonight.". Plan some kind of activity that would keep him from the computer. Get something else to do and see if he still chooses WoW over that.

Just saying "Don't Play" will leave him with "If not playing, then what?"

I play when I have nothing better to do (which is not as often). Give him something better to do and see what happens.

Since he is flatly refusing that he has a problem. I would take the kids and leave for a few days. Stay in town at a hotel or something. Do something fun with the kids and see if he notices. If he doesn't notice. You should leave. You deserve to have a man that can play on the computer but pay attention to his family as well. My husband has gotten into playing bunco. (So have I) but we don't play until after our kids are in bed. We don't ignore each other though either. Good Luck in your decision.

Signing up to World of warcraft is like signing up your life away.

I am 14, and I started playing this game called "runescape" when I was 11, and I played it for 2 years until I was 13.

I decided to quit once I looked in the mirror one day, and realized I had no life for 2 whole years. So I kind of messed up in mid school. So by around 8th grade I quit, and started playing "maplestory" for around a year, and I quit that this summer.

It felt so good to quit. I have more friends now.. a girlfriend, better grades, I make money with one of my hobbies.

Take a picture of him playing, record a video with a camera or something, show it to him. See his facial expression, see if that helps.

Also, he is paying 15 dollars a month to play that game if you didn't know. If this goes too far, the whole family can become a mess. Do your best, and try the camera thing I told you, or put a mirror next to the computer.

Hope I helped... Good luck.

MMORPGs can be VERY addicting. I would suggest family counseling. I have played World of Warcraft (World of Warcrack as many people call it) and I KNOW from my experience that it is very hard to get away from it. I have been playing MMORPGs since the early days of Everquest when I was 19 and I'm 27 now. There have been times when I would play for 13 hours straight. Fortunately I don't play them nearly as much now and even then I play it mostly for the social aspect.

First thing you should do is find out WHAT is appealing to him in the game. Has he made alot of friends that he plays with? I got absorbed into a group that I built strong bonds with over the years and its only because of their great company that I log in to play alot of times these days.

Could he be compelled by the opportunity to build a character that is near invincible? This was part of the reason I played as well. I enjoyed "raiding," which one raid can literally last for hours on end and you may not even come out of it getting the item you wanted, solely because the item didn't "drop." You then end up doing the raid over and over again until you get it.

WoW has ALOT of raiding in it and I know people who have become addicted to it. One single mother in her early 30s I play with had become so addicted, that she practically quit taking care of her kids because of the game and she moved back home with her parents so they could look after the kids. Her parents eventually forced her in counseling to break the addiction and started making tight computer use rules in their home to break her of it. She eventually came around and doesn't spend nearly as much time in front of the game and spends alot more time with her kids.

MMORPGs have been known to cause divorces and even suicide.

Hope this helps you and good luck with your husband. I know what he is going through and it will not be an easy road to travel, just bare with him and get him some help and you will get through it :).

He is not dealing with something that is bothering him. Any clue what that is? That would be the core problem along with the fact that he's spending all that time playing a war game.

Invite his some of his family members over to dinner and then EVERYONE go out for dessert, the movies, or local event. Have a family barbecue.... friends/family. You two should also date.

There was an article recently where two parents had their children removed from the home for neglect due to the parent's obsession with online video games. I would not complain about it, anymore. I would start making changes around the house which affect him in some way. A change in his routine might make him see that what he's doing affects the entire household. On his day off, don't cook for him, don't do his laundry, etc something that will get his attention.

This is actually a really serious problem today. many young people and sometimes older people get absorbed in online games to for fill something they dont have in life. sometimes it something impossible like wanting to fight and use magic. other times it is to have fantasy dates and whatnot. lots of people lose jobs, money, family, friends, and even whole lives (socially) playing games of the like. either he will tire himself out of it or he will get way to into it and never be the same. seems like it wouldent be a problem but it happens. your going to either wait it out or take the game out and say enough is enough.

hope i helped.

A hammer applied to computer. Smash it to smithereens.

You should do what Lisa D suggested. maybe then he will come to his senses!!