Out of Pod Experience

Total agreement. I even asked if it was ok before deciding to sell. She's more of a Guild Warsy player anyway. She understands my need to don pretty internet spaceships and shoot people in the face and I comprehend her need to dress in skimpy neo-medieval gear and run around the countrysides. It's a Love/Huh? relationship

Can I call you for the next Bachelor's party I plan?

I've got a yellow lab and three cats...and the lab likes to jump in my lap just as much as the cats do, and he's fully grown. There have been "incidents" here as well, LOL!

Camilla, my smallest runt cat which is the most talkative and acrobatic of the bunch, loves to jump from my wife's PC chair onto my shoulders (we have perpendicular desks in our game/music room) while I'm playing, scaring the living crap out of me. She then looks at you after you yell at her for scaring you, and then yells right back at you while purring and standing on your keyboard and waving her tail in your face.

Then there's Cleopatra. She's the boss of the house and will let you know it. She's a beautiful grey cat who constantly bitches and complains and hisses at you. She never does anything about it, just basically yelling at you for getting in her way. She'll do it while she's cuddling with you. She also likes to lick my clothes for some reason while she's in my lap. Dunno.

Finally, we have Banjo, the closest thing to Garfield anyone could have. This is the biggest, cutest, cuddly-st, hungriest, most annoying cat in the history of cats. I would have killed him a long time ago if he hadn't been so damn cute. He has razor sharp claws and loves to surprise me by clawing his way up my leg when he jumps into my lap while I'm playing. It's extremely painful. He then proceeds to apologize by purring and walking back and forth in front of my keyboard, waving his long, periscope tail in my face, rubbing his face against mine. He'll then crawl into my lap facing me, sit down, and literally put his paw on my face over my mouth, as if to say, "Shhh...that's enough Eve. Pay attention to me now."

One time my yellow lab Marduk had to go away for a couple of days because we went on vacation, and he missed home so much that my mother in law had to go pick him up early from our friend who was keeping him for us for a week. He didn't miss people, he missed his couch and his cats. When he got home, all three cats ran to him as he jumped on his spot on the couch and they all laid down with him and went to sleep together. My mother in law said the cats were desperate when Mardy left. People laugh when I tell them that Banjo is Marduk's brother, but it's really true. They are inseparable, even though Banjo's a cat and Marduk is a labrador. I'm a dog person by nature, but cats and dogs together are unbeatable. The dynamic in this house is hysterical.

Ha! No, she's an only child. Met her on a train. Come to find out, we lived 10 minutes from each other.

I think you can see why I decided to emigrate to Italy from the US. With a wife like her (and we've been married for nearly 7 years) and living in a beautiful country such as this, it was a no-brainer.

It works so well because we work so well. Nothing has changed in all these years...it's like we're still dating. Sure, we're older and a bit slower (I'm 34), but we're perfect together. I walked through hell to get here, though. Only after you've been shat on will you understand what you DON'T want in a relationship. For me, she's one of a kind because there is so much crap that men put up with from women that are complete deal breakers for me. I find it sad that nagging and yelling and whining that women do has become not just tolerated but EXPECTED today. I love my wife and I love women, but women in general **** me off and I really don't like most of them at all. I'm attracted to them, but I typically do not like the games and drama they seem to endlessly create.

The secret to it all is being so autonomous and content with YOURSELF that you don't feel a need for anyone else in your life. When you reach that point, then someone will inevitably come along who passes the test and all there won't be any drama or games or attention whoring. My wife thinks more like a guy than most guys I know. You have to find that perfect balance between beauty and class of a nice girl and the belching and farting while on a two-day game marathon we men are known for. It's hard, but they're out there, believe it or not. Sure, my wife is attractive and has big boobs and is from northern Italy, but what I love the most about her is that she really understands me, and not just my personality. She understands who I am entirely. That's what you have to look for. Everything else is just eye candy, and you can find that anywhere.

Going back some time, my mother had Margaret and C'thulu. Margaret was an apple-headed tiny little Siamese, and C'thulu was a big(!!) brain-dead Maine Coon. Margaret hated C'thulu, and he never understood what was happening - She'd run into the room, nail him in the face three, four times hard, then vaporize; He's stand there looking around trying to figure out what happened.

Margaret whould also body-check C'thulu off of tables: Run across the table and slam her body into him, shoulder-first. He'd fall off the table - often straight onto his head, -then get up, shake himself off, and wander away.

But when C'thulu wanted your keyboard, well, give it up, 'cause your productivity was done. Bare-claw climb up the leg (all 18 pounds of him!), stomp onto the keyboard, then plop himself down. Immobile, short of picking the keyboard up and flipping it over. Which didn't phaze him at all - He'd just get up (off his head) and repeat. The bloody stab-wounds in your leg usually deterred you from trying to remove him after the first experience.

Graygor, recruit her to do some Jita scamming for you. She might be a natural!

Don't have a wife, but go for a gay gamer instead? :p

Sadly I'm not gay though, so i'll have to scour the globe for another female eve player (or gamer i could introduce to eve) that could stand me. (I'm not that hopeful :D).

But introducing any somewhat techie oriented spouse to eve might work. Especially if they are into sci-fi

Im a (now reserve) comm ops officer in an armoured brigade which needs the same skills. Its wonderful to watch a movie listen to TS and the mrs and hold 2 conversations.

However apparently when i do it my eyes lose focus so talking to the mrs and listening to TS has resulted in head slapping and once a full blown arguement.

Still, love the skill. Jus need to train it to 5 to reduce the aggro.

girls are going to be jealous. I just keep them from calling me their boyfriend so they have to do something about their jealousy or get over it, instead of just nagging and blaming me like it's my fault.

//yes i was married once. for 3 years

false dilemma.

the choice is not between your wife and your video game,

it's between your happiness and not-happiness... or some degree of compromise in between

but i feel bad for you that you are in a position to need to compromise your happiness

(if you're having girl problems, i feel bad for you son)