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Q: Healthy or unhealthy relationship?
asked by: Tyrande on January 18th, 2009
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Me and my bf have been going out for a year now, we see each other once a week, normally on a weekend due to school/uni commitments. We both love each other a lot, however when we don't see each other, we both are on MSN and playing World of Warcraft. Now to be honest, WoW has brought us some arguements (silly i know), but arguements does happen. During the year with the arguements coming from WoW (we never argue when we see each other, we always very loving when near each other), we promised to stay positive (coz for ppl that play wow, u'll understand by what i mean "stay positive"). But however, sometimes stuff happens to me that's unavoidable, like PMS, which i also promised him that i'd try stay positive (he understands i get mood swings during those times), parent problems (i'm 17, he's eighteen), and when we do argue (tho sometimes neither of us started it) we just don't talk to each other for the rest of the day. Most of the time i ended up apologizing even tho it's not totally my fault (or have tried everything i can to prevent something bad from happening but still happened). He does very well in university, however i don't do so well, just an average student, not super bright (as for me, i don't think school is my strong point), but i don't fail so terribily either. We trust each other, compliment each other, we respect each other and supportive of each other, but everytime we fight, i get scared that he'll just say "lets not see each other anymore", and bcoz i'm scared, i'd say that's wat making me apologize most of the time.

I was just wondering from what i wrote above, does it seem to be a healthy relationship?, coz other than we play WoW together, we really only see each other once a week. and just a side note, we don't call each other names other than "baby, honey, sweety", we never swear at each other with the purpose of hurting another.

sorry if this is too long Sad, but i'm worried he'll breakup with me on one of the times we had a fight that originated from WoW...


WoW senario that led to us not talking to each other:

we both had a quest to kill this monster. However during the encounter he got disconnected. I got disconnected during the fight myself due to a thunerstorm, however i got back. My bf didn't come back for a while, but he NEVER just dc and don't come back, so i told the group to wait for him to come back THEN kill the monster so my bf can finish the quest too. However one of the person in the group had to go, so we ended up kill the monster without him. Afterwards i said "honey Sad" but he replied "what...". I can tell he's depressed but i left it like that, b4 i said "honey", i told him i tried to hold the group for as long as i can, but due to one of the person in the group had to go (he know the fact one of them had to go b4 we started the event due to time problems) we killed it. I duno why he's angry, or if he even is, but i logged off. Like i said b4, we didn't talk to each other for the rest of the day, guess i was scared to start a conversation with him.
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danielv
replied on January 18th, 2009
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You seem to be very hard on yourself. It seems that you feel like he is somehow better than you. I can also tell that you sincerely care for him..

It's good to care for someone the way that you do. Few people ever feel actual love. This and the things that you said about balancing each other are all wonderful things. However, it seems like you are compromising something in order to impress him. Sacrifice driven by love is a very healthy trait for a relationship, however sacrifice based on fear of losing someone is very unhealthy.

Here are some questions, you can reply or just use them as food for thought.

Why are you afraid that he will break up with you? What will happen if he does?
Do you think that it's healthy to spend so much time in a game and so little time together IRL?
Do you think that he would sacrifice gaming in order to spend more time with you?
If not, what does that tell you?

Hope that helps.

Sincerely
Daniel

PS you seem like a wonderful and intelligent person with a big heart. don't be so hard on yourself.
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Tyrande
replied on January 18th, 2009
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He will definitely sacrifice gaming in order to spend time with me, he told me b4 he wish he can spend alot of time with me. And the fact we spend so little time together IRL is because once a week is like, the most we can see each other in if u know wat i mean, my parents don't like me going out too much, i think it's prob coz they don't want me to spend so much money. and i think i'm afriad that he'll break up with me bcoz he's such a wonderful person and that i can't imagine myself without him.

I'm currently on a trip, and will be 4 days, please reply as i will check it ASAP when i get back from it, thanks for your help Smile.
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