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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi OP, I have a friend whose son was addicted to video games and violent tantrums if it was taken away. No divorce and her and her DH are very stable, so it happens to those been not in your situation. I hope that makes you feel better.

Ultimately they tried a lot of different things to varying degrees of success, including therapy, no-screen sleepaway camps (essentially like a no video game rehab — maybe your ex could be on board with sending him to camp), locking away the devices, etc. He eventually grew out of it and is in video game animation business now.

Is he able to complete his class assignments with the video gaming still? Can you get him into any extracurriculars as an exchange to allowing video gaming? Does he acquiesce to certain # of hours of video game a day (and like another poster suggested, you have to fill his other time without the video games and with something active/specific). Agree with another poster who said no replacements if he breaks things.

Good luck OP. If you feel unsafe from the violence, I hope you have a room you can lock yourself in to stay physically safe.  [/quote]
I think the no screen camp might be a good idea but if I present it to his dad that way he’d oppose it, so I’d have to act like it was a regular camp. He’s decent about completing assignments, but could obviously do better. Ex refuses fo allow me to put him into an activity, due to son’s refusal, last time he played was two years ago.[/quote]

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