draconis

Okay well that is a bit better perspective. He is addictive to the computer to the point of alienating you and his children. My father in law is close to being like that though he can't surf the net well but he'll play games for hours at a time even during family functions.

With my wife she had become addicted to WoW and we had to have a discussion on limiting it. My wife and I share a computer but since we have different shifts and where I own my own store I can manage to get on a computer for forum when I want.

My wife has read many of my posts and she has my passwords. I have nothing to hide from her. Nor would I want too. Fortune has it I can spend a lot of time with my kids even more so then my wife. She works and does college both full time.

I might reread this later and reply more. It sounds like your husband has one of two issues one is addiction to chat/or computers. The second is he is disconnected from the family.

draconis