I am on my third day of quitting computer games cold-turkey.
This is the second or maybe third time trying to quit, and I'm just looking for some people to talk to.

I played a lot of a Civilization – that's the one that is like crack for me. But I also played a fair amount of Eve (a mmorpg). I quit that one earlier last year after having just thrown down a bunch of cash on multiple memberships.

I have played games since before I was in college. (I'm a married adult now.)
This is a long-established pattern that I'm hoping to break. I hate to think of how many years of my life I have wasted on these games. Literally years.

They are really insidiously destructive in a way that is much easier to hide than gambling or alcoholism or whatever – because the main thing that is destroyed is just time. They are a vampire that sucks away time you are never going to get back. And what you achieve is nothing. Some high score that means nothing to anyone.

The cost is your career, your marriage, time with your kids, time you could have spent making or maintaining friendships, helping out in your community, learning new skills, being physically fit, etc, etc.

I am really trying to break this cycle for the last time. I made a note of the day I stopped playing, and I'm going to try to make that the last day I ever play.

That said, I have no one to talk to about this. Wife is not supportive (relationship kind of went down the tubes a long time ago.) I am not very religious, and looking for help from a church group really weirds me out.

I am really just looking to share my experience with others who are doing the same. I hope you will share how it's going for you, and maybe we can try to get through this together.

I am on day 3 ("sober" - really need a better word for it)

I don't feel better. I feel worse. But I understand this is pretty normal when people are trying to quit something.

How is it going for you?