WoW+Wife=?

Other, PVE, Role Play
Nov 22, 2010
3 Comments

Now, I know what you’re thinking. Another victim of too much Warcraft time and another divorce, thanks to the game. Well not exactly, see this edition focuses on a nerd’s life with the wife before she played Warcraft vs. when she gave in and discovered the beauty that is WoW.

Pre-Wife WoW Life

I’ve been playing Warcraft since roughly the summer of ’05, while at the same time dating my now wife. WoW use to be the biggest argument in our relationship. I played too much, didn’t pay attention to her, and of course, the vent talking and having to tell her for the 500th time, “That wasn’t to you”. If you ever had to say this, you know that goes about as well a solo run through 40-man Naxaramas. This lead to us breaking up at least once, possibly twice, and finally to me quitting the game for several months as a peace offering. Nothing makes you feel like a nerd more than negotiating raid times so I can finally give a guild the thumbs up on my attendance. Eventually, I mustered the rage to ask her to marry me and we eloped.

Post-Wife WoW Life

Do you know the term, “Night and Day?” Well that’s exactly what it is like. After 5 years of begging, pleading, vowing to do anything, I managed to get her to agree to 1 hour of play time for any one crazy favor she wanted. Well, fortunately, for me she has yet to cash in on this favor, although, I know she still has it hidden and waiting to screw me when I least expect it, like a huge accidental pull when the healer doesn’t have line-of-sight. She does, however, play with me a couple hours a week, which is more than enough to satisfy. There’s nothing like playing with your loved one, side-by-side, destroying those god-awful murlocs. Watching her experience all the stuff I experienced almost six years ago; the oohhhhh’s and awwwwww’s, getting her first pet, convincing her to heal her first dungeon, taking our mounts off the sweet jumps in Stranglethorn Vale, and watching her excel over the pressure. It makes you feel like a noob again, and have all those first time feelings rush back. Now as she races to try to nail 80 before our planned Cataclysm release house party/all-nighter event, I can’t wait to experience all new stuff together, for the first time.

Tell me, have you have had an experience like this? If so, write me and tell me about it.

http://vimeo.com/fondrewow FondreBound

Great story, mine is the same, WoW life was painful,wait I mean PAINFUL!, before laviolet started playing.

I was lucky I got her into it, I think right before BC, so the length of the wife aggro was short, it did take some trickery to make it happen.

I got her nice and drunk, threw some charm on her, and said come on, just try it one time. She rolled an undead rogue, and that was the end of my aggro, like a crack dealer she was hooked.

it has cost a few thousand dollars for us to both have PCs and keep them up to date, I have had nothing but a blast since she started playing. She is now level 80, a top dps with 11/12 HM in ICC, so there is some pride there too.
http://www.rawrcast.com Stompalina

I teared up reading this. My story with Haf was very similar. Playing the game together is way more fun than playing alone. And, that holds true with everything if you expect to live together and maintain your WoW-iness.
http://ragetanks.tumblr.com/ Sean McClune

I met my girlfriend playing wow. I lived in south Georgia, she lived in Alberta Canada and we were both working night jobs. We would get home around the same time and since we were the only ones online, we started to chat.
One thing led to another and we went from talking in gchat, to vent, to phone calls and text messages, to video chats. We finally met in real life and when the opportunity arose, I moved to Canada to be with her.
We have now been together for around 2 years and are as happy as we can ever be. She has become more of a casual player, farming for mounts and pets, while I’m more of a hardcore raider, working on hard-modes and achievements.