My boyfriend and I have been dating for three years. He has been
a programmer for as long as I have known him, which has meant dealing with him
occasionally not sleeping for four days straight, him being on call for work
24 hours a day, and programming breakthroughs coming to him during intimate
moments. All of which I never minded. Programming is what he loves to do. But
recently he took a new job as a systems developer, and things have changed drastically.
It has gotten to the point where I am literally competing with computers for
his time and affection. He works all night, plays (PlayStation, computer games,
or programming just for the heck of it) all morning, and sleeps the rest of
the time. Over the past three months I have gradually been squeezed out. We
don’t live together, and he makes no real effort to talk...
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