Many months ago I spent a lot of time playing video games, mostly Minecraft because of the server I run. I was playing so much it was reducing the amount of time I was spending with my girlfriend. So her and I discussed and agreed to have certain nights of the week where I would do whatever I wanted (even if that meant video games), and other nights she would be able to do whatever she wanted. This worked out great because I was still able to play video games as well as spend time with my favorite person. She understands, and always has, that video games are my hobby and that I appreciate my hobby very much. My hobby sometimes involves her, but when it doesn't I don't want it to take up too much of my time.
So this system of ours went on for months, with both of us being happy with spending time with each other, as well as doing the things we loved. We found a good balance. It stopped when Diablo 3 came out, because we both play. Each of us were choosing to play that together whenever it was our respective night. We played Diablo 3 together for weeks.
Then the both of us kind of stopped playing Diablo 3, as well as any other game for a few weeks. Cut to last night. She says to me, "Do you want to go back to our system of having nights to do whatever each of us want?" My first thought was have I really been spending too much time playing video games and not noticed? Turns out she was asking because she felt like she was the one taking too much of my time. That's right, she wanted me to do more of what I want. My answer was simply that I was happy, which was all she needed to hear to make her smile.
I'm blessed to have her in my life.