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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 2169931" data-attributes="member: 3400">Well, yes and no. I'd say that anyone who refuses to make any compromises with the people they supposedly love are just as bad. While I do believe you have to accept your partner who who he or she is, you also have to make allowances for them in your own lives and be able to expect them to do the same. That might mean curtailing the budget (both money and time) on some hobby passtimes for mutual activities. So an occasional wine tasting party that keeps you from gaming would be an acceptible cost to pay once in a while for marital bliss. Putting up with a hostile attitude about a hobby is, I think, over the line and your friend should put his foot down and let her know that he has no intention of giving up his hobby on any permanent basis.Once kids arrive (and I don't think I'd be too keen on raising kids with a partner that uncompromising about who I was), that may put the kibbosh on gaming for several months. Babies, especially first babies, take a lot of time out of the schedule. But that kind of time commitment isn't a permanent thing. Parents/spouses should make time for each other so that the other one can have a night off every once in a while (weekly if it can be managed). Any spouse who won't allow that has a serious attitude problem.</blockquote>