Final Fantasy

"Hans, can you find out how I change the cloudy mirror to the celestial mirror?"

"Sure - you go find a man at the campsite and tell him where his wife is. Then you go back to the woman but the boy will have gone. Then you go up the glowing path to find the boy and the mirror will change"

Unless you too have a husband / partner who is prone to video-game addiction, you are probably wondering whether a) Jeremy and I have moved to Avatar land or b) we've lost our tenuous grip on reality.

But no, alas, while I'd really quite like to live in Avatar-land, in actual fact I'm sat on a sofa googling cheats for my husband.

For the past few weeks, since some dear soul at Jeremy's geek-filled workplace lent him a stack of games, Jeremy has been transfixed. I go to bed with the music to Final Fantasy playing in my head. At least, I think it's in my head, but it also might just be audible from the next room because for the past two weeks I can't remember going to bed at the same time as Jeremy. I also can't remember waking up and him being there. In fact, it's entirely possible that he hasn't been to bed at all.

I'm not sure what the correct plan of anti-final-fantasy attack should be. My options as I see them are:

a) pinch him whenever he plays as a subtle aversion therapy so that he ultimately associates it with discomfort.

b) feed the games to his worms as some sort of modern-take-on-a-greek-myth revenge. 

c) find out as many cheats as possible and wait until he falls asleep (assuming he does sleep) and then subliminally communicate them (he only intentionally cheats when he's exhausted all possible options) so that he wakes inspired and actually finishes the damn game.

I have a feeling that the latter is the only real option available to me, since from past experience I know that until he finishes the thing, there'll be no distracting him.Plus I'm not 100% sure worms eat CDs...

Do you think it's a sign that the honeymoon period is over when your husband tries to get you to go to bed early (alone) so that he can play his video games?

That was a rhetorical question.