My boyfriend is addicted to playing GTA role-playing online and plays it 12 hours a day for 7 days a week.

Things have gotten so bad that he refuses to work and has basically quit his job,

and I honestly don't know what to do. The title says it all,

My boyfriend of 5 years is addicted to GTA role-playing, and it's ruining our relationship.

He spends 12 hours a day playing, he has no job, and he doesn't help around the house.

I feel taken for granted, unloved, and I'm not sure what I can do to help him get a life.

For lack of a better words, I'm kinda lost here. For a bit of background, he's always been a gamer.

He would play his Xbox a few hours each day, and sometimes I would watch for a while,

and sometimes I would just do my own thing. It never phased me. I found comfort just being in

his presence, and him chatting with his friends over the headset never bothered me either.

Sometimes it was just some background noise, and sometimes it was quite entertaining.

At the start of this year, he got a PC, and immediately got into GTA role-playing.

I was happy for him at first, because we used to watch YouTube videos of people playing role-play

servers, and always had a laugh, so I thought it was cool that he would get to join in on the fun.

But things started to slowly unravel, when it comes to his job, he started calling in sick for

work a lot. He's relatively new to this job and career as well, so he would just be sitting at

home playing GTA, and he did this so much where he used up all of his sick leave and holiday leave.

Maybe it's a coincidence, I don't know. But he tells me that he doesn't want to work there,

because of his anxiety and fear of heights. The job is not on the ground level by the way,

and that does check out for the most part. He is scared of heights, so I can understand that maybe

this job is a bad choice after all, and he should try and find something else. But the only problem

is that he never finds something else, which is starting to cause me a lot of stress.

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