the game
At the beginning of my partner's preoccupation of a mobile game, I found it, to be frank, beneficial. We had less random arguments as she was busy and didn't pick any idle fights. The house was more peaceful. This seemed to be a typical short lived new activity or something similar to obsession with tennis on TV during tournaments. Nothing out of ordinary. Some time later when the activity lasted longer than usual I started to worry a bit but still expected it to end any day. Then when the game started to gobble too much of our money I tried some gentle conversations. At $600 mark there was remorse and I thought the problem was solved and that she finally saw what was happening. At $2000 mark, a few months later, there was denial and excuses. At this point I was really worried. The money is not a problem here (not the main one). The amount of time sunk into a mobile game is. I tried some gentle suggestions like "imagine what you could have painted in that time" or le...