It's a hard thing to do. I have been playing WOW now for a little over a year I guess. Im in a guild of people that I have been with from the beginning.

We are on endgame content...raiding about 4 nights a week. Clearing MC, BWL and halfway through AQ40. I play a warrior. Equipped with 7/8 tier 2 armor, probably 25+ epics and....I also have Thuderfury one of hte legendary items in the game.

I believe I have something like 112 days played on my character.

However the last few weeks I have been trying to pull myself away from the game but its not easy.

Im married and have 2 kids. I also run my own biz. Lately I feel like Im not spending enough time with my family and on top of that...most all the real life friends I had playing WOW with me have now quit pretty much.

Im an officer in my guild and one of the main people driving success. But I just lately am torn on playing. The game has turned into a thing of if you log on to play you will be on a raid like BWL or AQ40 that takes 4-5 hours. Its almost more like a job then fun anymore....but the drive to try to get that next piece of loot or be there for that next new boss kill is addictive for some reason.

The best soloution I have come up with is to just force myself not to log on as much. Im considering making myself pick like 2 nights a week to play and then not let me self log on to the game the other 5. Hopefully this will wing me off the game a bit and give me more time for family etc.

Id be interested to know how other people recognized when they had hit that wall and knew they needed to get out or how they handled it when it happen.

Im still lost.