March 27, 2025 at 12:21 am

Her Boyfriend Plays Video Games At Night While She’s Trying To Sleep, And After Months Of Dealing With The Noise, She Finally Lashed Out At Him

by Laura Ornella

two men sit on a bed playing video games

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Relationships can throw a lot of learning curves at you. Sometimes, they’re even like a video game…

Read how one Redditor levels up her game when she finally confronts her boyfriend about his rude video game behavior.

Yet, she’s not sure she did the right thing.

Let’s read the whole story to decide.

AITA I told my BF to get a life

My (26F) boyfriend (24M) of almost two years has been out of a job for around a month now.

In addition to this, I recently went back to school full-time and have to wake up early for classes (6 a.m).

Every single night (and I mean every single night) he gets on to play video games with a couple of his friends. They play a very competitive game which needs communication from every player at all times.

So, you can imagine there’s a lot of…noise.

They tend to be quite loud when they are playing, especially if they are on a losing streak (which tends to be most of the time)

This has been going on for around 6 months which [is] irritating at times because he doesn’t want to spend quality time with me during the night but was doable when we both were working full-time, and he only played for a couple of hours at a time.

However, during the last two months I have become increasingly upset as he tends to keep me up well into the AM when I have to get up for classes in the morning.

I understand “getting into the game,” but when he’s yelling at the TV, it either makes it extremely hard to go to sleep or completely wakes me up.

She’s tried to offer solutions to the problem.

I have talked to him about getting on earlier and getting off earlier, or just taking the night off when I have classes the next day.

Now mind you, this discussion has been acted out several times.

The horse isn’t dead, it has been beat to oblivion.

His responses can be very childlike.

Whenever I ask him to get off the game, he insists that he can be quiet when playing and apologizes and says, “I was just getting into it.”

And every time I walk back into the bedroom to sleep, he’s yelling at the TV 10 minutes later.

Last night, after him reassuring me that they would get off early since they got on earlier, he kept playing until it was nearly midnight.

I had asked him to just keep it down since I didn’t have class today but still needed to wake up early since I have an exam tomorrow that I need to study for.

This was the last straw.

He kept yelling at the TV, and I was fed up from the last two months and stormed out of the bedroom. I told him to “shut the heck up and get a freaking life” in which his response was to accuse me of being rude and to tell me to stop being so mean.

I understand that it probably wasn’t the best thing to say (knowing that he has been stressed out about being unemployed), but I was so fed up with everything and let my emotions get the best of me

Was OP in the right to get worked up or should she apologize? Let’s see what Reddit thinks. Read the comments below for more.

People came from all points of view — including the boyfriend’s.

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Overwhelmingly, they said “NTA.”

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And people shared a bit of advice.

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But they all kept hinting at the same thing.

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This woman needs to focus on what’s best for her.

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