Liars in Azeroth

How do I deal with a lie?

In the grand scheme, it wasnt a very big lie. But trust is like a house of cards, and even the smallest breeze can make it crumble.

Of course, this entry has to do with World of Warcraft because that’s the only time B and I ever fight.
I don’t particularly enjoy that B plays during the day without me…mainly because he goes on and on about how much work he has, and how much time he doesn’t have (he doesn’t have a job btw, just goes to college, distance learning) Because I bust my ass all day at work, come home and push myself past tired to take care of him.

It bothers me because there is SOOOO much stuff he can do on his own, why does he have to add running instances to his solo time?

He used to wait for me.
And what really makes it worse, is the other day we got into a little disagreement (about wow) and he’s like “You probably think im here running mythics all day”

And that’s exactly what he is doing. See my problem isnt so much he does stuff without me, as the lying about it. It’s just so fucking disappointing that the game is THAT important to him to not only lie, but lash out at me. That’s addiction I guess.

Even after I caught him, he kept trying to make me look like the asshole. He said he had a mythic key on his shaman, and I asked who I ran with his shaman because I really didn’t remember. And all I got was “umm”. I let it go while we were finishing the instance we were in…but later I looked it up. Sure enough, he ran a mythic while I was at work…and during his “get stuff done” time. To be fair I guess I just assumed “get stuff done” meant homework or writing.

His answer after I caught him?
“mythic? I thought it was heroic. Huh.”

If you play wow…you know that’s god damn bullshit. One you get in queue for, one you actually have to travel to.
Then he gets all defensive and keeps harping on the fact i’m upset because he did something without me, …I’m just upset he lied. And not only lied but tried to manipulate me into being the unreasonable asshole.

Further, he knew he was looking to run a mythic. Which, ok, it makes me sad but at least if you’re god damn honest about it I’ll get over the sad. Now, I’m sitting here questioning everything he says.
He knew he was looking to run a mythic because he’s trying to gear all his toons for the mage tower challenge before it goes away.

Like i dont get why thats so fucking hard to say up front.

He never even apologized. well I apologized (for what I’m not sure because I’m not the one who lied) and he said “I’m sorry I guess”
and went on to add “Lets just say I’m the asshole”
IN THIS CASE YOU FUCKING ARE DUDE!

I mean maybe in his tiny pea brain he cant get past the fact that I initially got upset at the point I found out about his little mythic run.
But he’d lied to me twice already by that point.

Some people are probably reading this thinking I’m being too controlling (again, idgaf what he does without me as long as he doesnt god damn lie about it) Some people will know exactly what this feels like, and some people won’t have any idea what I’m talking about.

I just want to know how I forgive him, how I move on, how I trust him again.

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February 21, 2018

How do you trust him again? He’s playing a video game, not banging another woman/man on the side. If you ask an addict did you get a fix today, and 90% of the time you’re going to get a lie because of shame and guilt. The same applies here too. He’s addicted to the game and cannot admit to you or himself that he can’t control it.

February 21, 2018

Ugh, thats so frustrating. Like, I haven’t been super active in legion and even I know you can’t be like “oh, mythic? Weird I thought it was a heroic” Uh…no you didn’t, thats BS man. Why would you even lie about something like this…like…you can’t lie about and not get caught because all you have to do is check their recent activity and BOOM lie is out. Sorry you’re dealing w/ this. Super frustrating.