10 Things You Should Know About Dating A Gamer

4. When We Say "Good Night", We're Not Really Going To Sleep

There are two scenarios that gamers frequently employ to disappear a partner in order to continue playing long into the night, and they depend largely on the stage that your relationship is at: a) Living apart: This one is far easier to pull off. Your partner might text you around 11pm to say they're going to sleep, perhaps mentioning that they feel a bit sleepy and so are having an early night.

What are they really doing? They're blasting soldiers to pieces on Call of Duty, they're grinding to the next level in Guild Wars 2, or they're screaming down the microphone at a 12-year-old Bolivian kid who just corpse-raped them on Halo 4. It's a relatively harmless lie that allows you to play in peace without saying, "Yeah, you're kinda boring me. I wanna blow some s**t up".

b) Living together: This is much, much trickier. Your partner might come to bed to go to sleep, and once you fall asleep, they'll carefully wriggle themselves out of your vice-like grasp with the skill of Solid Snake, and saunter back to the living room to play more games. Granted, getting peeved at their nocturnal activities probably isn't the best way to fix the issue, if it even is one; at least they're cutting into their own sleep time rather than taking away from your waking time together, right?