Everyone values their hobbies, but the timing of them can sometimes turn into a nightmare for couples with mismatched expectations.

One husband needed “just five more minutes” to finish his online game, but his wife wasn’t too happy about being told to wait.

The result was an evening simmering with frustration.

Read on for the full story.

AITA for not leaving my online game?

Yesterday, I was playing Apex while my wife was having a voice lesson for about an hour.

When she was finished, she was excited to talk to me about her lesson.

But when he asked for a couple more minutes to finish up, she wasn’t exactly understanding.

I was in the middle of an online match with about 5 minutes left. I asked her to wait until the game was over, and then we could talk.

She got upset and called her friend instead.

To her, this was a big issue.

She told me that she felt I had plenty of time to play games and that her happiness shouldn’t have to be “on hold.”

My view is that waiting a few minutes to let me finish an online match seems reasonable.

If it was a single-player game, I could just pause it.

So she spends the rest of the evening in a poor mood, and we hardly talk to each other.

And this was hardly the first time this couple has hit a wall on this.

This isn’t the first time we’ve had this issue.

A few weeks ago, she was at a choir camp for almost a week.

When she came home, I happened to be playing a game.

She wanted me to come outside right away to see her garden’s progress.

I asked her to wait until my game was done, but she said I had three seconds before she’d get mad.

He isn’t sure how to proceed.

I closed the game and went outside, but she was still in a bad mood afterward and told me a lot of things she felt I was doing wrong.

AITA for asking for a few minutes to finish my games before giving her my attention?

It seems like both parties lost in this argument.

What did Reddit think?

Maybe this most recent argument is simply a culmination of a lot of different things.

It’s time to talk it out and finally get to the bottom of this.

This commenter’s judgment depends on a variety of factors.

How would his girlfriend feel if the tables were turned?

He may have thought five more minutes wasn’t a big deal, but to his wife, it was about so much more than just a couple extra minutes.

If this couple can work on their communication, they can put an end to these stalemates once and for all.

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