[Serious] What's the worst reason you ever had for staying in a bad relationship?

World of Warcraft.

I was dating my guild leader. We lived near enough to each other that we could see each other, but far enough away that it wasn't often. At this point in my life I was really focused on being hardcore, all night sessions, 55 hours of WoW a week hardcore.

Because of this, my entire friend group existed as my guild. I'd go to work, get a small amount of sleep and than log in so that I could see the only people I cared about. It was a fairly unhealthy situation.

Anyway. We got into a fight one night because she wanted me to come and see her, I wanted her to come and see me. Typical selfish stuff. She threatened first to bench me from any raiding in the guild, and than just to flat out boot me from the guild that my entire life was supported by.

So. I went to see her. I continued to go and see her. I was angry. I knew I was being manipulated. I just couldn't deal with losing the guild at that point in my life. After about 7 months of that relationship dynamic, so dumped me and I left the guild on my own steam.

Did the typical Reddit plan of deleting a lawyer, hitting Facebook and talking to a gym. My life is fair better now. I am happier and actually doing something with my life. But I sometimes I miss the guild.

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