Well at the beginning of last year I started dating the love of my life. He is the first long term relationship I've ever had and let me just say that it is really awesome. There is one thing that I did learn quickly though about a lot of boys and that is that they love games, and for my boyfriend, its an online game called R.O.S.E.

In the beginning it was really hard for me to deal with him playing for all hours of the day, I felt like he may not like me anymore and all he'd rather be doing is playing this game. So I talked to him about it, and he said oh no its just something I liked to do.

Still for awhile it bugged me, because he would stay up for all hours of the night(which yes he still does) and play this game, with his cousin. He has all these other online friends and for awhile I was scared of what may happen to our relationship.

Then I finally sat down and thought about this for a second, why is this bothering me. For him this is a hobby, and I have hobbies to, so why is it bugging me. I like to make layouts and write, so why does it bug me that he wants to play a game all the time. In conclusion I think it was because I wasn't getting all the attention anymore.

I didn't realize that our relationship was develpoing into a new phase, of which things aren't revolved around you anymore, but you can still maintain a great relationship, and make the time that you spend together more special.

What I would recommend if you are going through this, just find things to do, things that you used to do before you got caught up in a relationship. Give them a few hours of there game time, and you take a little time for some R&R, then after that go back and tell them you'd like to watch a movie or something together, and trust me it will feel like when you guys first got together.