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<blockquote data-quote="The_Universe" data-source="post: 2672491" data-attributes="member: 8944">Bummer, but understandable, particularly if gaming was the primary framework of socializing. Sometimes, it helps to think of it like golf (because depersonalizing a problem always helps put it in perspective). Let's say you and your buddies play golf. Sure, you do other things on occaison, but you all love golf. You play for a while, but your buds tell you that they don't like the way you're playing golf. That's fine. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. But if golf is what you *did* with them, what's to do, now that they don't want to play golf?It's an interesting dilemma, and one that's not limited to golf. It's an enduring part of human relationships. It could be golf, RPGs, sex, drinking, drugs, or anything else. It sucks, but it's the way people are. I don't have a solution, but I can at least recognize that the problem, such as it is, is rarely as unique as we imagine it to be. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Hang in there!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The_Universe, post: 2672491, member: 8944"] Bummer, but understandable, particularly if gaming was the primary framework of socializing. Sometimes, it helps to think of it like golf (because depersonalizing a problem always helps put it in perspective). Let's say you and your buddies play golf. Sure, you do other things on occaison, but you all love golf. You play for a while, but your buds tell you that they don't like the way you're playing golf. That's fine. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. But if golf is what you *did* with them, what's to do, now that they don't want to play golf? It's an interesting dilemma, and one that's not limited to golf. It's an enduring part of human relationships. It could be golf, RPGs, sex, drinking, drugs, or anything else. It sucks, but it's the way people are. I don't have a solution, but I can at least recognize that the problem, such as it is, is rarely as unique as we imagine it to be. :) Hang in there! [/QUOTE]

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