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When The Other Woman Is An Xbox
MTV's Game News service has a report on a an anti-gaming college club started by a group of disgruntled gamer SOs. From the article: "Jaci and Jake, who both attend Kansas State University, are a modern couple dealing with a modern issue. One of them is a gamer; the other is not. Theirs is not an unusual plight. For decades gamers and non-gamers in love have struggled to find harmony. At Kansas State the frustration is rampant. Like most college campuses, it is a place where the release of Halo 2 last year was the best of times and the worst of times. And while there is such a thing as couples in which both people are into games -- and while there are sometimes boyfriends who are the non-gamers -- the most frequent complaint involves game-crazy guys leaving their girlfriends out in the Xbox-free cold."
Bull.
"True love" is when you realize the person you're with is the best you're going to be able to get due to your current and likely future stature in life, so you settle before you lose them and then somehow manage to string together a mediocre relationship for the rest of your life (or until one or both of you is convinced that somehow someone else is a better catch than your current one and that you're deluded into thinking THAT one will be so great that you leave the current "true love").
Seriously. Don't kid yourself. People are oppertunistic and prone to succumb to tempations and infatuations with little logic or rationality. If you're with someone, you are only together because neither of you has had a better offer yet.
The key word in "settling down" is settle. If you're fine with that - great. Just don't delude yourself into thinking it's some grandious thing of another nature that you've concocted in your own mind to rationalize and justify the quality.