[Fey]

I did read it, and I"m still sticking with my original reply. You're missing the point of my comment. You want him to stop something he enjoys. He sees no problem with what he does, he doesn't see that it affects the relationship. So why is it unreasonable for him to expect the same from you? That is called compromise and give and take.

I'm gonna give you some tough love here. If you expect him to do all the giving-up of stuff then his friends sort of have a reason to bad mouth you. Yes, it sucks, and it's not nice, but right now what I'm hearing is that you want HIM to focus on YOU, and give up what HE likes doing so he can spend time with YOU. That's not how a real relationship works.

And, in the long run, if that's what you want from this relationship and he's not willing to give it to you, then it's not something that will last.

Ask yourself this: What are you willing to give up to make this work? Because right now you're not asking that, you're telling him what to give up.