How do you find time to adult and game?

Our pc is in the corner of the living room next to the sofa so when she watches rubbish on TV, I sit and game.

I get home from work around 6,make some tea and sit and watch TV we both like for a while. Usually jump on the pc for an hour around half 8 - 9. It helps that my wife is a gamer, although she has currently took up residency on the pc playing stardew Valley.

Shopping is done whenever, the supermarket is 5 minutes away so only takes half an hour to do a shop. I can walk the dogs just after dinner and still have plenty of time at weekends and the odd weekday evening to go out / socialise etc.

We do have our first child due in a month so expect this advice to be irrelevant quite soon.
 
Man cave is the answer and a partner who understands that quality time together isn't me sitting next to her whilst she watches trash TV.
 
I sleep about 2-3 fewer hours per night than my wife, which gives me that extra time (wireless headphones help!) and we tend to spend about an hour per evening doing our own things after having dinner and watching some TV together.

No kids definitely helps, but I do spend 3 hours per day commuting during the week!

Also helps that my PC is connected to screens in three different rooms, and I have PS4 in one room, and Xbox One and Wii U in another. Very rarely competing for use of a particular screen :)

Played about 70 games in 2016 and finished most of them!
 
Mine changed drastically in this time last year when our son was born! Even now he's not perfect at sleeping or else I would stay up at night and play for a bit! Get an hour or so through out the week here or there.

To be honest I probably should just go for it and stay up playing if I want to! But knowing my luck he will wake up at 3 or something and being a small house we are all up then!

Did set up a retro gaming room for my small collection but hardly ever use that as it's next door to his room and he's a lite sleeper! Saying that he slept through New Year's Eve fire works so probably worrying too much!
 
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Should be moving out soon into a 2 bed flat with my gf. I have negotiated that i can have my 4k 55 inch samsung in the lounge with my ps4 as long as i buy her her a tv for the spare room which will also have my pc but i rarely game on it since getting the pro.
 
My girlfriend works night shifts occasionally and her day shifts finish at 8pm anyway so 90% of the time that's when I play. The other 10% is when she asks if I want to play so she can catch up on Eastenders or something in bed.
 
Much the same for me. I've got various systems and a whole bunch of games I want to play but it just never happens. On the rare occasion I do get the time I find I just can't be bothered.

2 young kids and wife that seems to think I'm some kind of **** if I dare use my laptop instead of watching rubbish on TV that I'm not interested in makes it difficult to be any other way :)
 
so I've got 2 young kids, and a lovely wife. I work full time and normally get home about 5.30pm. once all the jobs are done it's normally north of 8:30 when the kids go to bed. If the mrs is watching crap and doing the ironing then i'll pop on the xbox and get some titanfall in. I'd say on average I get about 4 hours a week.
 
I was similar, had an Xbox 360 that I never used and then bought a PS4 that sat under the TV.
Bought a 24" monitor for my Macbook and at the same time moved my PS4 into the office, its hardly off now, good setup in there actually, Laptop for browsing and streaming BT Sport/Sky Go, Amazon TV for Netflix and all that good stuff and the PS4 for gaming!

She's happy as she's usually watching drivel on Netflix!
 
it's amusing actually as even though my mrs watches soaps, as soon as I sit down to game I get "that's really sad!" lol
 
I'm currently unemployed and it's the only time I've ever found time to play games since having a baby and doing adult stuff. I know that as soon as I get a new job that my gaming will stop. It's a sad fact of life unfortunately. Either wake up super early to get an hour in, or play 1 hour late at night after the wife and kids are asleep. That said, I could be more organised and get adult stuff done quicker instead of procrastinating to leave more time for gaming.
 
I got a gaming laptop so I can game in the front room after the kids are in bed and the wife doesn't get the hump with not seeing me.

Still I find I play a lot simpler games than I used, anything that takes 10 hours to learn is out and I also find a game a fait bit on my tablet.

Shame but I want to game more but it just doesn't happen nowdays

Edit Added - Do people not do stuff with their other half. We try to watch stuff together we like rather than crap only one of us likes. these days there is so much choice it is easy to watch stuff we like together and we ditched the crap. Neither I or the wife would want to go our own way each evening, may as well live apart.
 
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Having kids obliterated my time for hobbies including gaming but a happy unforeseen consequence of them growing up a bit is that now we make time to play games together. It's changed my games choices with nintendo and things like steep and forza getting played rather than PC FPS but that's cool. It's not that we are glued to screens every minute but we have a couple of hours of quality time playing together every week. 3 player coop on mario is fantastic with them for example
 
I'm a weekend commuter. Mon-Fri I work away from home and with my evenings during the week I do my part time university work.

On weekends I try and get the gaming done, the biggest thing for me is convincing my Mrs to enjoy gaming too! She's recently got herself involved in Skyrim. she constantly enjoys "slaying dragons" her only other previous gaming experience comes from her teenage years when she played COD games. I have Skyrim on my laptop and PS4.

When I'm home at weekends and I want to play the PS4, i convince her to play Skyrim on my laptop. When i want to use my laptop I convince her to play Skyrim on the Ps4.
 
I can see that there is more nad more workaholics among us.
Sad but true
21st century slavery ;)

Who is remembering time when weekends were for family life ?
 
Wait till you have kids then it's violin playing time lol. Where now you say you've got no time then you will be saying I remember when I had money too! The best I get with 2 under 3 years old is a few minutes here and there which usually is a quick game of fifa. I started skyrim again over xmas and haven't been able to pick it up since. I was buzzing I got a ps4 pro for xmas then realised I've got a pc which I built in the last year that I hardly go on as it is :(
 
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