While I get that some people really don't have a healthy limit to their gaming hobbies, pulling the mom-card on your boyfriend is usually not the recipe for success. I try to not jump to conclusions, but just pulling the plug sounds very disrespectful, because you can't force people to just switch their attention to something else, simply because you decide that you want it there. Considering that, it sounds really ironic that you wanted to advocate for a more serious/mature relationship.

I think I have a really unpopular opinion on this one, based on previous comments. First of all, it isn't clear whether she asked him before if they could talk, and he just didn't hear/listen. Second, why the **** is it OK to break up with your gf just because she turned of your Xbox? I don't get that. But that could just be me, I guess.

Relationships are overrated anyway. The only important part is the sex, to be honest.

One thing you've gotta understand is turning off a video game suddenly can cost a person hours or sometimes even days of work that they have no way of salvaging. There are even some instances where doing that could cost someone hundreds or even thousands of dollars that they have invested in the game when they get banned for leaving a live match. Please don't do that.

There's a lot of context needed here. Did OP try beforehand or just immediately switch off? Has she tried in the past talking to him, and it's gotten to the stage where she has to do it immediately to be heard?

If he wasn't being serious enough then breaking up with him is fine and shouldn't be "fml". It is kinda annoying when people screw up my gaming data after hours of work because of "serious" talk.

And how exactly was that supposed to go, according to your plans ? I ******* love my boyfriend but if he did that type of shit it would make me really mad.

That was very rude of you really. Even if you'd asked him multiple times to stop playing you should've just waited until he was finished- I assume not all games are easily pausable at certain points. I don't think it was breakup worthy but if you're this disrespectful all the time I see where he's coming from. The only situation I can see what you did as okay is if you've been asking him to talk for days and he keeps ignoring you.

I agree with your bf, you don't ever mess with a gamer's console or while a gamer is playing. Nothing short of death is more important than gaming out. So you deserve it. And I hope your exboyfriend finds a better girlfriend, he deserves it.

I mean, unless you tried to get his attention before hand, this is the equivalent of you sitting and reading a book, and your boyfriend coming up and with no warning ripping, it out of your hand, and saying we need to talk. It's not only disrespectful, it shows a lack of healthy boundaries. just because you might not approve of video games as a hobby doesn't mean they're pointless or by worth consideration of the person playing. people have plenty of ultimately unproductive hobbies (reading, jigsaw puzzles, coloring mandalas, bird watching, playing on your phone) and none of them get quite so much hate as video games. If this had said "I shoved my BF's puzzle back into the box while he was working on it, getting rid of all of his work, and said we need to talk" (which is what you do when you shut off someone's game without letting them save) then I feel like the comments saying he deserved it wouldn't be quite so numerous.