Playing with my Husband strengthened our marriage

COMING to video games and weddings, it’s usually not good news. Pop culture, books and movies are littered with anecdotes or comedy sketches with the contemptuous and sad wife her husband throws at her latest video game.

Now I can imagine: usually a wife gets into her husband’s dark, ornate dark clothes in some uncomfortable pink clothes, in an effort to seduce her husband with dark eyes and caffeine from one game or another. It ends with screams and loud and loud noises, but it’s not good.

Not in my case, though. I swear that playing video games with my husband for two years, who is 27 years old, has really strengthened our marriage and now I feel closer than ever.

When the coronavirus pandemic closed the world as we knew it in March 2020, Jethro and I didn’t even get married for a year. That summer we spent the first wedding anniversary locked in a small two-bed flat in London, lamenting what could have been. We ran out of everything: running, cookbooks, decor, our record collection and coffee. Sometimes it was tense — it wasn’t life for a new couple, was it?

In all honesty, we never played together. Jethro liked difficult adventure games, with impossible puzzles, logic, fighting and ass weapons. I didn’t. I liked brightly colored games, friendships, and “doing good”. I’ve never been the closest to fighting and big-ass weapons Fallout 3, and even then I ran away from the rabid dogs.

We like different things and we have tremendously different personalities, so playing together was never considered. Jethro is the number; it’s fresh, wrapped up, and incredibly logical. I am creative, a writer, an overly sensitive Pisces, with a tremendous memory and zero logic. In terms of life and play, we are the opposite polars. So our game life has been very different, very personal for us one by one, and we would never have the opportunity to bond, or work together as a couple, when it came time for our screen.

It just so happens that we are not alone. Numerous studies have been conducted over the years that have revealed the negative impact that gambling can have on marriages. It’s amazing, in 2018, the website Divorce is suggested online that it had increased considerably in the year Fortnite it is referred to as a reason for divorce among users. About 5% of all divorce papers received that year said the game was meant to break up their marriage.

In earlier research, published in 2012 according to Journal of Leisure Research, the researchers found that 75% of the players ’spouses (often male) wanted the player who was in their relationship to make a greater effort in their marriage. They claimed that it caused grief in their relationships and discussions, which hindered the family’s time and intimacy.

However, the same study revealed that among couples who shared play time and played together, 76 percent said it was a good game for the wedding. They were more comfortable in the relationship as they were in the same group. He revealed that working together works wonders.

So when I got into hordes last year and bought a Nintendo Switch when it crashed last year, I was nervous. Skeptical, even. I imagined playing Animal crossing until 4am, picking peaches and swimming clams, while my husband slept alone in our bed, and vice versa. I was worried that we would fight for the console and end up eating alone when my husband swore and sweated to fight Dynamax Pokémon Hidden Pokémon.

I finally saw him for 150 hours trying to catch up in the Digletts game Armor Island expansion, and I felt angry, losing patience with something he wanted to be nice to. I was quick, I only offered negative comments about his style of play and technique because I couldn’t participate. Sometimes I ended up sitting farther and farther away from the couch, angry at the console he was supposed to have. ours. Until we bought 2017 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.