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My boyfriend and his games

My partner and I have been together for 2.5 years and I still feel like his phone and games mean more to him than his daughter and I. He won't get off of his phone to help me either if it's dinner time or even just to play with our daughter. I hate it. I hate it so much and every time I complain, he says we'll change or have no phone times and nothing ever changes.. its such a struggle to get him to engage with us. I cook every night, I make his lunch for work every day and yet I can't even get him to get off of his phone to have a conversation with me.. anyone else have the same issues as me?

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I have a similar issue. My husband of 2 years is simply obsessed with his phone and games. When he’s with the baby he’s always on his phone looking at stuff, and only gets off it when I walk in seeing him not paying attention to our daughter. Then he also stays till 2am playing video games when I have to get up for night feeds and in morning to take care of the baby, walk both dogs and wash bottles and other stuff while he’s too tired to get his ass up from bed. It’s so annoying

I'm so glad I'm not alone. I feel like shit because of it. Some days I get so fed up with it and it's like why do I bother anymore

I totally understand you. It’s like I know he loves us but his addiction is destroying this family

I even tried yesterday to tell him an app that will help us strengthen our relationship, he said oh yeah and nothing else

I’m sorry to hear that

If you can afford a little vacation, try one with NO ELECTRONICS! Help get his butt back in great for family time, and hopefully he will see what he misses! I sadly run into issues with my phone (both me and him) his is watching shows 24/7 while he's doing other things, and sometimes it's paying attention to them to where i ask him why he didn't respond to his child's question after they asked 3 times!!!! For me, i had unreliable staff for a while and my job went to hell (had more stress to deal with after the fact) if i was not availablec to handle crap with work as soon as it came up!!! This terrible situation gave me anxiety about not having my phone handy and readily available.... so i, too am on my phone alot. In order to keep it visible and always near for my anxiety, i started going down rabbit holes on the internet, or playing mindless games (otherwise i put my phone down some where and forget where it is, then get really anxious about missing something important at work. All this to say --- I'm

Aware of it, but it doesn't make it easy to stop. I don't WANT to feel like i need my phone so the time... but i struggle to get out of that head space (even though i have a much stronger team now). Getting away from my phone for vacation time has helped, so I'm not as attached to it and not as anxious. Hopefully trying something like that can help - but it will only likely work if he WANTS to get better

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