"MY FIANCE NEGLECTS ME FOR VIDEO GAMES"

Therapy Gecko

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Society & Culture, Philosophy, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A caller expresses concern over her partner's love for video games and how it's affecting their relationship. After that a woman tells me about how she recently formed a relationship with her father, who she previously thought was dead. Then a guy and I chat about how he has joined a fraternity in an attempt to understand men more and another caller tells me about her deadbeat sister. There is some other stuff too. I am a gecko.

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0:00.0	What is it that you would like from him?
0:02.0	For him to like spend some of the time off of video games and spend some quality time with me.
0:07.0	The majority of the time he doesn't want to play like games that I'm willing to play.
0:11.0	So it's kind of like trying to get interested in his hobby and finding things I enjoyed his hobby just to like it'll be put on the back burner
0:19.0	Tabby. Hello, I'm here
0:22.0	Tabby, how are you?
0:24.0	I'm good. I'm actually surprised I got through.
0:28.0	How are you doing?
0:30.0	Tabby, it says here that your fiance spends more time playing video games than he spends with you
0:36.7	Is this true?
0:38.7	Yeah, um so he does and he's always played video games like ever since I've known him and my dad and he's, I've always grown up for out video games and I do have a PC so I can play with him but
0:55.6	sometimes well majority of the time he doesn't want to play like games that I'm
1:00.8	willing to play so it's kind of like I feel like I compromise like trying to get
1:05.7	interested in his hobby and finding things I enjoy in his hobby just to like still be put on the back burner so it can be
1:13.4	can be frustrating sometimes.
1:15.0	So what is it that you would like from him?
1:20.0	For him to like spend some of the time off of video games and spend some quality time with me.
1:28.0	I feel like a lot of men, and I don't mean to generalize, but a lot of people just find like peace like being in the same room or like the same place as like their significant other but that's not necessarily in my eyes like spending quality time so like sometimes I just like even if it's just like watching a movie which I guess in a way is kind of not the same thing but it kind of kind of is I don't know I don't know really what like
1:55.9	he's not a talkative person and I am and that's fine I can talk for the both of us
2:01.7	so maybe it'd be nice like on a walk or to go shopping or go to dinner or like we don't have to spend money I just sometimes I wish we could like walk away from the video games.
2:11.6	So all right have you have you away from the video games.
2:12.8	So all right have you have you told him everything that you just told me?
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