“In 2013, my ex-husband and I played a game called TERA. He was so obsessed with it that he took my gaming laptop to the hospital to play TERA while I was recovering from the birth (including during one of the first pictures he took with our son).
“A few weeks after our son was born, he found a girl from Greece named Athena and they spent a lot of time together. At first I encouraged it, but eventually I found out that he was buying her in-game items (with his real money). When they weren’t playing, they would constantly communicate via Skype, even to the point that he would change his sleeping habits for them.
“I stopped playing that game because… well, I did it for my ex-husband, and now the game was ruined. I watched as my marriage was destroyed.
“The day be fore Christmas Eve he told me he was moving back in with his mother. On Christmas Eve, Athena sends him pictures and he officially goes to his mother’s house. On Christmas day he tells me he wants a divorce.
“I haven’t been able to play since then TERA. [I also now feel like Christmas is] a meaningless holiday that I celebrate and make special just for my son.
“But unfortunately I didn’t do that [immediately] learn my lesson, and it was another eight years before I was finally strong enough to leave him and never look back. I am fine now and am being treated as I should be.
“But I’ll never touch that damn game again.” – Sylphy, 31
Are there any games you will never play because you associate them with an ex? Are there games that are just too good to give up? Can you ever truly recover from heartbreak? Give me all your answers in the comments.
