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Relationship dilemma of the week

John Plunkett. Updated June 6th, 2019

This is either a salutary lesson why you shouldn’t share laptops with your partner or why you shouldn’t believe everything you read on Reddit. Very possibly it’s both.

It’s quite the read, a woman who said she had just discovered that her husband writes “erotic video game fan fiction which I and my family are ‘featured’ in”.

It included “a full blown conversation between Sonic and Amy […] about ‘opening up the relationship’ and he seemed to sometimes also call Amy by my real name which seriously freaked me the fuck out”.

It went viral after it was shared on Twitter and, well, this is why.

And because that’s not exactly easy to read …

Hi Reddit

Throwaway account for obvious reasons.

So the title is fairly self explanatory but hopefully writing about the situation will help me vent as well as get some objective opinions here.

Let me just start by saying that my husband is a truly wonderful and a very caring person who I adore and until very recently thought I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. He is hard working, charming, very good at his job, he has some great friends and is even quite social with his colleagues who seem to enjoy his company.

Basically, he’s a pretty normal and well adjusted adult – or so I thought?

We use each others phones, we share laptops, he browses social media casually in front of me so we are very aware of what’s going on with each other but we do also respect each others privacy as well – I would be very surprised if he was snooping on my emails, for example.

So last night while my husband was in bed I turned on his laptop to finish off a report that as due in work the next day and the first thing I seen was a massive document (5514 words according to Word), the title of said document was Sonic Mania 2: Sonic Unleashed.

I was confused at first, why would my husband be reading such a thing? He used to play computer games every now and then but stopped around the same time he left college and hasn’t so much as mentioned a video game console to me.

If ONLY he was just reading it. My curiosity got the better of me (can you blame me?) so I decided to read a bit and it’s actually quite difficult to articulate the emotions (a combination of disgust, horror, and shock) that I experienced while I was reading it.

Without going in to too much detail, to give you an idea of what he wrote (it was unfinished do he was clearly writing it) there was a full blown conversation between Sonic and Amy (his girlfriend?) about ‘opening up the relationship’ and he seemed to sometimes also call Amy by my real name which seriously freaked me the fuck out.

It gets worse, there was this bat-like female character who he named after my cousin and graphically described committing a sex act with ‘Tails’.

That’s not even the worst part. My father and him have always had a sort of strained relationship but they were civil enough. In this little fantasy world of his, he wrote MY FATHER as the antagonist (doctor eggman?) and went in to all this detail about Sonic ‘dropping his rings’ all over him,.

Ok, there’s really not much need to go too much into this, by now I’m sure that you get the idea.

I don’t even know how to BEGIN approaching my husband about this. Obviously having a conversation is the grown up mature thing to do and communication is key but I can’t exactly say ‘hey by the way, about that sonic story your laptop’ or can I?

The awful part is I feel like there’s not even much point having a conversation because I feel like literally nothing on earth could justify such a thing in the first place. It’s clearly not a harmless hobby that he should enjoy in his own free time (he wrote about some fox going to town on my cousin for fuck sake).

This is tearing me apart, I had no idea he was hiding such a big part of himself, maybe I’m being too harsh? Fuck I don’t know. Any advice about how to approach this is greatly appreciated. Sorry for the rant, I’m at my wits end here!

TLDR; Found out that my husband writes raunchy stories about my family and computer game characters.

And this is what they had to say about it on Twitter.

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