Just too bad about the girl. haha

I suppose things happen for a reason. The girl I was with at that time was pretty incompatible with me because her family was super religious and I had to pretend that I was in order to continue dating her - which was annoying. But just like your situation with her sitting on your lap I recall being even more callous than that, she would accept that I was going to game all day and just come by and give me a kiss on the cheek and I would recoil almost as if in disgust. I was so into the game that her presence simply annoyed me.

Later this same situation would happen with another girl and many years later she told me that one of the main reasons that she left me was because I loved "that stupid game" more than I loved her.

I will never play an MMO ever again and you could say to some degree I have been traumatized / learned my lesson from them. I am one of those guys that just woke up one day and looked at my characters and my life and thought to myself "what the hell am I doing?" then stopped playing altogether. I actually went through a bit of withdrawal if you can believe that. I'm ashamed of myself for blowing off real life friends and girlfriends who just wanted to spend time with me. I'm at that point in my life where my past regrets are haunting me and these are some big ones.

But for you and I both we need to remember that we are quite happy with where we are in life right now... you with your lovely child and me having a life overseas.... and if we lived just a little bit differently, we might not have gotten those things.