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Message: <blockquote data-quote="genshou" data-source="post: 2717044" data-attributes="member: 13164">Good for her!  There are too few nowadays who hold to those kinds of ideals.I'm so grateful that I only almost ended up in one of those situations.  She and I were not meant for each other, and I think things would have ended up very bad if we'd lived together.  My current girlfriend lives 500 miles away, and our relationship is a lot more rock-solid than I think it would be if we were living together.  "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" is the old maxim, and I fully believe it's true.  That doesn't mean I'm happy about the degree of absence, though... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />As to your roommate, he is being unreasonable, but for a valid reason.  That doesn't seem to make any sense, I know.  But it does.  Trust me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Anyway, the point is, if you try to change his mind, you'll just end up butting horns, whether heatedly or not.  It's not worth moving out over, and gaming is something that I'm assuming isn't everything of import in your life.  Why not reduce the in-game time (ie, not including social chatting time after the session) to 4 hours a night, 1pm-5pm, 3 times a month?  That's 12 hours of gaming a month, 12 hours of socially excluding him within his own living space.  That isn't unreasonable at all, especially if you clear the date ahead of time.Oh, and sorry for not offering my own advice (which was probably better at the time) when the thread was younger.  I was too busy betting on whether or not it would be closed before it got to page 3. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /></blockquote>

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