My boyfriend’s become so interested in darts that we barely spend time together

DEAR DEIDRE: MY boyfriend has developed an interest in darts and now we are spending less time together than ever before. It’s got so that I barely miss him at all.

We’ve been together five years and last year we bought a flat. Then his interest in darts began, and he spends all his time practising, in the pub or the flat.

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He’s a good player now and he’s started to enter tournaments. Frankly it bores me to death.

We’re both 28 and it feels like we’re two separate people, just sharing a flat.

I left for a week and moved back in with my mum. I was perfectly happy to do my own thing but now I’m back with him, as it seemed for the best.

But I still feel second best to the darts and friends ask me why I’m still here.

DEIDRE SAYS: I can see their point. He’s happy to spend all his time playing darts and you’re happy to do your own thing. You need to be asking yourself, what is this all about?
Is the answer, perhaps, that at least you’re not living at home?

You need to be honest with him and be prepared to accept that unless he’s willing to change, you need to sell up and move out.

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