Poll: Would you quit gaming if your partner asked you to?

[MajoraPersona]

Either she loves me for who I am or I eat her intestines. That's the deal.

 

[DragunovHUN]

If i was asked something like this, i would emmidiately know that i chose the wrong partner. How could i possibly share my life with someone who can't even tolerate my hobbies? Not specifically gaming, just anything.

Only some immature dumb b*tch would ask you to do something like that anyways, so you don't lose anything when you dump her for being just that.

EDIT: This is assuming you're not an obsessive gamer. Which is a pretty good assumption since obsessive gamers don't have partners.

 

[Vrex360]

Love comes first. That's obvious for a guy like me.

Is it really love if they need to change who you are to be with you tho?

If I ever did actually find a woman who could tolerate my bullshit then I would be so grateful but that seems unlikely. My ideal girlfriend would need to be a beam rifle weilding vixen and such a woman I cannot find.

 

[ZeeClone]

My fiance knows that my computer is my mistress.

She is fully acceptant of this fact.

 

[DND Judgement]

The more important question is "Would you quit your partner if gaming asked you to?"

that happened to me once, but me and gaming came to a compromise that i'd see her less often...

 

[Aanorith]

Gaming is a way for me to relax and just get rid of some stress. I've always gamed and me and my friends get together on a regular basis gaming the night away. When I've bin in relationships, I've refrained from gaming while thier here, but id never stop completly even if asked to. It's just a part of me.

 

[AWC Viper]

i did for a while but i still do it when she's not at my place. i sold my 360 and ps3 for her and all i got now is my pc for "Working" and porn.

 

[Lord_Jaroh]

Afraid not. Gaming is my hobby and I enjoy doing it. I'm not going to not do it just because someone else doesn't like it as much as me.

 

[Proteus214]

If she doesn't like video games, then I wouldn't be with her in the first place.

 

[yankeefan19]

My girlfriend is a gamer anyway.

 

[Kojii Doom]

NO, Nuff said.

 

[CoffeeOfDoom]

Luckily both me and my boyfriend are gamer nerds! We often play games together, and buy games just for the co-op mode.
However if I did have a boyfriend that wasn't into games (I think that would be highly unlikely, or maybe they're just the only kind of male that I've met), I would cut down to spend more time with them, but I wouldn't give up completely.

 

[Dahemo]

Watching the Second Skin [http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/second_skin] documentary it raised an interesting question: would you quit gaming if your partner asked you to? Or if you're not willing to give up gaming altogether, would you be willing to game less in order to free up time to spend more quality time with your partner? Even if that wonderful person would make it a relationship breaker?

I was a pretty fervent Half-Life deathmatch and Counter-Strike player myself before I got into a relationship and shedding of my gaming skin came natural to me. I do know however that my wife wouldn't like me getting back to gaming if that meant spending less time together.

I don't play online really, so I'm not tied down with raid times or guild meets, but equally it's an important aspect of my lesiure time (along with music, reading, TV, going out with friends, sports, sleeping) none of which I'd want to give up. I would hope that my lifestyle is as accepted as my perosnality or appearance by my partner, and while it's never been an issue in my current relationship, I could cut back if it was an identifiable problem...

 

[j0z]

If my partner asked me to give up a part of my life that brought me much happiness and joy, then that's not really a partner I want to be with. I don't see why such a demand would be made, unless the partner in question was a selfish individual. And if a person cared so little about my feelings to make such a demand, then that's not a person I want in my life anyway. Basically, it's a non-issue as far as I'm concerned.

Those are my excat thoughts, I would cut down on my gaming, but they could not convince me to give it up completely

 

[Barryfaceman]

I dont think i'd ever want ot be with anyone that wanted me to stop gaming, they'd have to be into gaming as much as i am, or it just wouldn't work out.

 

[Lynx]

No I wouldn't.
Luckily, my guy is even nerdier than I am when it comes to gaming. So there's no way he would even ask such a thing. ^^

 

[Kermi]

If my wife wasn't into games I'd be willing to game less if she asked. I'd probably not own a PS3, probably actually use my Wii, and only fire up the 360 on weekends.
But giving up games entirely? Ehh... ask me in ten years.

Fortunately for me, the wife games more than I do.

 

[AlphaOmega]

Play less? Sure.
Stop? Piss off.
Luckily I might call a gamer my gf soon o/

Soon? What are you going to do with her, give her The Sims 3 + World Adventures for Christmas?

Oh wait you're going to befriend a current gamer? That might indeed be easier to pull

She is into gaming, mainly older RTS and RPG's.

 

[FluffX]

No. No and I would dump them if they were persistent about it.

That is if I ever actually had a partner.

There's a line between changing yourself and giving yourself up.

 

[R3dF41c0n]

I watched Second Skin this weekend as well.

I would be willing to quit an MMO for my partner, and have in the past (it was SWG), but I would never give up gaming altogether I would just do it less often.