NASCAR’s power couple, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Amy Earnhardt, have been happily married since 2016. Amy recently revealed one of the secrets behind their successful marriage — the respect they give to each other’s personal space and time.
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During the Ask Amy segment of a recent episode of The Dale Jr. Download, a fan wanted to know how Junior gets his wife to let him play video games.
Amy answered that Dale Jr. plays when she is sleeping. She then elaborated on the need to strike a balance between couples giving importance to each other’s needs, and taking the required time off for their own interests.
“I don’t think that there’s any issue,” elaborated Amy. “As much as I make fun of the video game thing, it keeps them off the street. So I’m not so mad about it. But he does it while I’m sleeping.”
Dale Jr. picked up from her answer and added that it wasn’t about what hobby one chooses to pursue. What is key is the time spent on it and when. He explained that one has to read the room and communicate properly to avoid issues.
Amy concurred with that, adding:“He’ll just say, ‘Do we have anything going on today? I’ve got a couple things I want to do in the computer room’. I don’t care what it is. Go in there and just stare at yourself.”
It is solid communication that keeps their relationship healthy and happy.
“I don’t care, yeah. But when he communicates with me about what he wants… just be away and have some alone time. Yeah, it doesn’t matter. But that is important,” said Amy.
NASCAR fans, particularly those with an affinity for video games, will do well to take pointers from this interesting conversation.
What video games does Dale Earnhardt Jr. prefer playing?
Being a superstar stock car racer, one would expect Dale Jr. to spend a lot of his time playing NASCAR-based games. He does spend 90% of his time on iRacing, a racing simulator.
However, his heart also lies in other games, such as the World War 2-based Hell Let Loose. Revealing his favorite games in an episode of Dale Jr. Download last year, he said,
“Usually, if I am on consoles, I am playing Madden … When I am not iRacing, I play Hell Let Loose. We play a little squad on PC. These are first-person games. Pretty fun.”
He went on to mention that he was into the slower, methodical games and did not enjoy the fast-paced ones such as Call of Duty. Junior’s revelation about playing Hell Let Loose, a game with a cult following, became hot news at the time.
Dale Jr. also revealed how people react online once they find out it was him playing the game. The reactions, some of them hilarious, were in tune with what can be expected from fans when they suddenly come to know they were rubbing shoulders with a racing legend.
