I ‘22F’ have been dating my boyfriend ‘22M’ for about 1.5 years now we’re going to 2 years in August. I usually don’t get upset about him playing video games but lately it’s like that’s all he wants to do. So heres the explanation (sorry if it kinda sucks I’m not very good at storytelling lol) I can’t say what his job is but I’ll give some hints; it requires him to be on call pretty much 24/7. Anyways usually we spend every weekend together and sometimes we have movie nights on Tuesday (they cheap so gotta take advantage of it) so when it’s a weekday i let him do his thing and sometimes we FaceTime throughout the week. Recently tho idk if it’s because I have mood swings or it’s me being dramatic but I feel like his games are more important. For example; when sometimes we’re hanging out his friends call him to play and yeah he asks for permission to play but most of the time he doesn’t and he just hops on the game. Or when I’m staying over with him he hops on the game and stays playing for 3+ hours even though he tells me it’s gonna be just an hour. He’s going to be going away for 6+ months due to his job so I’ve been trying to spend as much time with him as I can but it’s like he doesn’t understand.
When he hops on the game I watch him play but it gets boring after a while. I get easily distracted (ADHD girly lol) I’ve been getting upset with him when I try to spend time and when i get upset I say stuff out of impulse and I apologize after but now I feel like I do the same thing every time. Get upset, say mean/rude stuff, and apologize. And it repeats again when he goes to play games. Like I understand he’s using it as a way to distress but he stays up almost all night playing and when we hang out he’s tired and needs to rest.
When his friends call, he points the camera at me and has his friends ask for my permission for him to play and when I say “u don’t have to ask my permission because ur gonna hop on the game anyways.” He doesn’t say anything he just looks at his friends. Just this past weekend he had his friend point the camera at his gf and he asks for her permission for his friend to play the game and she says yes. So my boyfriend always makes this somewhat backhanded comment by saying “that’s a supportive girlfriend right there.” Like hello it’s not like I sit for 3+ hours watching you play while I wait for you to come to bed and cuddle.
I tend to overthink things all the time and I tend to explode at the smallest thing (it’s a work in progress 🫥) but at this point I’m honestly defeated and don’t know what to do. I get very upset to the point I go to my car or the bathroom to cry because im just trying to spend time with my man and all he cares about are his damn ranked matches. If I bring up all this my brain will overload and think that he’s gonna get upset and that im not giving him his space. I love him a lot and he’s the best person ever but it’s like he’s changed. So was I wrong for getting upset at my boyfriend for playing video games?