Hi all,



I am new to the forum and not had a great deal of time to read through all of the posts though I will do, but my question is am I addicted to the internet? well I seem to think so and though only recently realised it. I work online and so naturally I am online more hours in the day, when I am not working I am emailing friends, chatting online to my parents as they are in another country, staying in contact with friends etc and basically online all day, so I know everyone is thinking so am I, but what is worrying me is it has got to the point where I will leave the internet to eat my dinner and that is it, so really everyday activities that I would normally do are just no longer happening, I blamed it on the fact that I was in another country now and not my home so naturally I would want to be online more, but its got to the point where my fiance gets totally abandoned and sometimes I dont even acknowledge him, which is now causing arguments between us, if he needs to use the internet for something I get really cheesed off that I have to leave it, when hes on here I sit twiddling my thumbs desperate to get back on it. I have 2 days off in the week and rather than go out for a walk or do something different I get straight onto the internet, my family are saying I am addicted and that I need to just break the routine, but its not so easy. I stay online from the second I wake up, till when I finally go to bed and unfortunately only go to bed when my fiance is moaning at me to get off the internet. I have decided to try and create a 'normal' working schedule to reduce the time on the internet and actually step outside the house even for a little walk.

Sounds a lot like you are addicted. Try and find something better to do other than sit on the web all day, buy yourself a console and play a good game for a while, and no going online to look up cheats...

If you ignore your fiance because you're too busy with the internet, an actual living physical being, then you are definitely addicted.

princess2008 wrote
Hi all,



I am new to the forum and not had a great deal of time to read through all of the posts though I will do, but my question is am I addicted to the internet? well I seem to think so and though only recently realised it. I work online and so naturally I am online more hours in the day, when I am not working I am emailing friends, chatting online to my parents as they are in another country, staying in contact with friends etc and basically online all day, so I know everyone is thinking so am I, but what is worrying me is it has got to the point where I will leave the internet to eat my dinner and that is it, so really everyday activities that I would normally do are just no longer happening, I blamed it on the fact that I was in another country now and not my home so naturally I would want to be online more, but its got to the point where my fiance gets totally abandoned and sometimes I dont even acknowledge him, which is now causing arguments between us, if he needs to use the internet for something I get really cheesed off that I have to leave it, when hes on here I sit twiddling my thumbs desperate to get back on it. I have 2 days off in the week and rather than go out for a walk or do something different I get straight onto the internet, my family are saying I am addicted and that I need to just break the routine, but its not so easy. I stay online from the second I wake up, till when I finally go to bed and unfortunately only go to bed when my fiance is moaning at me to get off the internet. I have decided to try and create a 'normal' working schedule to reduce the time on the internet and actually step outside the house even for a little walk.

If the internet takes away from your normal day to day activities in a negative way, yet you do not stop it, then yeah, you are probably addicted. The part about you working online is understanadable, but the part where you are ignoring your fiance for the internet is unhealthy. Try to take at least a few hours each day AWAY from the computer. Just remember the computer will always be there , even if you are not on it.

Thanks for your replies and advice, as I work online its definitely a lot harder to pull myself away as I am having to constantly check emails for work updates as well as having a business online which involves selling and so again always needing to check there too. But I had decided to change my routine realising that is was unhealthy and so far so good, though I still have a lot of work to do on controling my internet usage, I am managing to spend some time going out for a walk even to the local shop when I have a break from work. Also my fiance and I agreed that we would watch a movie on certain nights etc to spend more time together and that is helping. So step by step....