Well, I am a happily married man. My wife is beautiful, intelligent and hard working, we get along together just fine, love eachother very much, spend as much time together as possible... oops, time...

...there is something rotten in the kingdom of Danemark. That time thingy has something to do with it. You see, working can be time-consuming as hell, and even keep you occupied through weekends, not to mention the occasional daily overtime.

And on top of it, I am playing computer games. My spouse, even though she's a graphic designer and one would expect her to look favourably at the 'puters, absolutely despises computer games.

She's got an open vendeta with all gaming companies, loathes my PC (her using a Mac doesn't help either ) and finds it utterly irritating when I decide we had enough hugs&kisses and I'd rather sit in front of the PC for an hourly Victoria session, instead of watching some extremely stupid TV show with her - or just keep talking to her for the duration of the evening.

She's gone through phases concerning her relationship with this particular hobby of it. The only common point is her dislike of it. She can live with my obsession with reading books - she can read a book at the same time, or at least peak at a magazine and constantly annoy me with words like isn't this hat marvelous or wouldn't I look great in that swimming suit?

Other hobbies we share: we both like to watch a good film (even though sometimes the definition of good differs...), we both like to go swimming, we love to play tennis together, we enjoy a walk in the town center, or the beachside, we love spending an evening with friends, either in-house or in a bar or restaurant. I don't enjoy shopping, of course (she adores it) but that's a solo business for her anyway - I insisted on this early on.

The only thing we can't do together, is computer games. I tried to lure her to play too, but she adamantly rejected my proposals and kept nagging.

So, fellow married gamers, how is your life considering playing games and nagging spouses?