FFXIV and Family Time

[SniperRifle]

My wife runs 2 chars one for crafting other for gathering. My 3 kids are only in Junior Kindergarten so they only have half a day of school so I usually have them running 3 seperate accounts cracking crystals and fishing. Our eldest son is actually 8 years old but we've held him back a few years on school to fill in for an 8th slot on our Dzemael Darkhold runs. My girlfriend on the side (my wife doesn't know about) is our LS's main healer and our little chihuahua, Fluffy, is the LS's pimped out full HQ+3 Archer. He's top DPS on teh server.

[Nabiri]

My boyfriend and I are both gamers (we met in XI actually), and we've never had a problem with playtime yet.
I have many things I like to do, and tend to keep busier than he does, so more often I'm the one sacrificing things I want to do to spend time with him. Of course I enjoy every minute with him. I just mean I spend more time with him than on "me time."
I wouldn't ever ask him not to play a game (or any other hobby) and I wouldn't feel right restricting him to only certain days or times. He spends most of his time with me as it is, and we enjoy many different games together, (StarCraft II, fighters, shooters, FFXI, msn games, console games etc.).
If playtime ever became an issue I hope we could just talk about it calmly and resolve the issue without making rules for each other.

My last boyfriend I had some issues with, but.. it was a little different. He would act like he really wanted to play games together, ask me to play it with him.. then ignore me in-game. o.o; They were mostly free-to-play games, but he also played FFXI for a while. I'd log into the game for the first time and he'd be off in some other part of the game world hanging out with his friends, and I'd ask him how to do something.. through guild chat or tells.. and he'd ignore me but answer all his other friends in guild chat. So.. I'd say something, and he'd answer like 10 people.. and I'd be waiting on my question to be answered so I could learn about this new game.. -__-; Sometimes I'd be waiting on an answer 10 minutes. I usually ended up having to go to ask him in person because he just forgot I was there or something. >.> One time he left me waiting for half an hour and I was too pissed to go ask him in person, so I just logged off. Later he wondered where I went.
I got tired or repeating my questions over and over. Eventually I stopped playing games with him and he wondered why I didn't like doing things with him anymore. :x (He was a lazy bum who didn't do anything but play games anyways. Wouldn't even come out for a walk with me for some exercise).
Unfortunately gamer couples can have issues too. haha

[DGMart]

My wife runs 2 chars one for crafting other for gathering. My 3 kids are only in Junior Kindergarten so they only have half a day of school so I usually have them running 3 seperate accounts cracking crystals and fishing. Our eldest son is actually 8 years old but we've held him back a few years on school to fill in for an 8th slot on our Dzemael Darkhold runs. My girlfriend on the side (my wife doesn't know about) is our LS's main healer and our little chihuahua, Fluffy, is the LS's pimped out full HQ+3 Archer. He's top DPS on teh server.

Pro... what's sad is it's probably halfway true lol..

[HiirNoivl]

I don't have a relationship with a family I actually made myself, but my family is all gamers (my mom and dad are strictly tabletop tho) My brother is waiting for PS 3 release and my sister had a baby so I'm all alone on the servers now. But sorry, guys when Mom calls during the Darkhold run, I might get a little distracted. She lives out of the country, so I'm not letting her go to V-mail.

[Archadius]

It's funny how the single people saying how they dislike "restricted" but soon they get a GF they really love. They be off FFXIV and be "restricted". Don't sit there and tell me you wont because it happen to me before.

This is a big load of BS. I'm sorry but not everyone is like you. We don't all immediately worship the ground someone walks on when they stroll into our lives. It's not like none of us have ever been in a relationship before, or been in love for that matter.

I dated a girl I knew since we were toddlers pretty much, we shared a deep connection, it was perfect. If I've never felt love before, that sure as hell was the closest I've ever been. She wasn't a gamer or anything, she was a hot chick popular girl, but she gave them a shot anyways, for me. Anyways, the point of the story is that a couple months later she cheated on me, drops me like a rock, then proceeds to date random guys in succession for less than a month each.

So yeah, after being burned like that, there's no way in hell I'm letting someone walk all over me. Speak for yourself pal.

[Caelynn]

Been with my husband for 10 years now and we have 4 children ages 7 to 15 years. Our whole family loves playing games. The kids each have their own wii's and the oldest has his own ps3. Lots of our free time is spent playing games of multiple genres obviously. Yet with all the gaming going on we don't have to schedule any time together or set time restrictions. Guess we all just have common sense?

I wouldn't dream of telling my husband he can only play games at a specific time or him doing that to me. We are a family not a business.