Comments on: My Spouse Watches Too Much TV https://www.professorshouse.com/my-spouse-watches-too-much-tv/ Mon, 10 Feb 2025 19:05:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: Suzie https://www.professorshouse.com/my-spouse-watches-too-much-tv/#comment-1086920 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 11:21:31 +0000 https://professorshouse.com/relationship-category/my-spouse-watches-too-much-tv/#comment-1086920 In reply to Mp.

ditto

]]> By: Suzie https://www.professorshouse.com/my-spouse-watches-too-much-tv/#comment-1086919 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 11:14:40 +0000 https://professorshouse.com/relationship-category/my-spouse-watches-too-much-tv/#comment-1086919 In reply to Cory.

Get the TV out of the bedroom to start…. you deserve you TV free space.

]]> By: Suzie https://www.professorshouse.com/my-spouse-watches-too-much-tv/#comment-1086918 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 11:12:47 +0000 https://professorshouse.com/relationship-category/my-spouse-watches-too-much-tv/#comment-1086918 In reply to Milla.

Yes, small house and when my husband watch Gilmore Girls I would her the non stop fast talk in the next room, it drove me inane. I actually had to watch that with him to stop the mad chatter and actually know what was going on. The show was good, but I’d rather go to my local coffee shop and see my nieghbors than watch two strangers go to their local coffee shop and see their fake neighbors.

]]> By: Suzie https://www.professorshouse.com/my-spouse-watches-too-much-tv/#comment-1086917 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 11:08:55 +0000 https://professorshouse.com/relationship-category/my-spouse-watches-too-much-tv/#comment-1086917 I was raised by parents who didn’t have a tv until they were married, watched the news not much else. Tv was for rainy days or when your sick I was told. They told me TV was a boob tube and a brain drain.
I married an English as a second language man, his parents plopped him in front of their tv for free babysitting, to learn English and to learn our culture. Husband thinks TV is educational.
When we first moved in together I said NO TV… he said, his mom had three, so could we just bring one old one to our house? I said when that tv dies we are not going to buy a new one. His mom died a year later and we got her good tv. For the year she was in the hospital he visited her everyday after work, I didn’t see him much yet he came home at the exact same time. I said oh, you must just happen to be catching the same set of buses, on the same schedule. He said no, he came home specifically to watch Star Trek. Not to see me.
I said NO to cable…just a few rabbit ear channels but then he found free VHS tapes at the library, then DVDs… He would tape tv shows when he was at work. Now somehow he watches you tube through kids Xbox. And he’ll watch things he’s already watched before.
House is small so we eat in front of the tv. To be with him I watch his shows… To be nice to me he finds me a show that I might like to watch. I’ve even found myself watching tv alone if on a rare case he gets up to do something. Then I realize what am I doing??? I only sat down to be with him and now he’s gone. Now we have internet and wifi, but really his love is the TV. I call it his IV.
When I was in the hospital for our first born, he was drawn to the computer contraction monitor and after when I got a room he had to turn on the tv. Most restaurants have TVs now, so if we go out to eat he’s looking over my head at the Tv.
I find myself on the internet more than I want because he is so boring.
It’s been 35 years, nothing will change. Kids are grown, I finally found my own friends to hang out with. He’d rather be with his tv than out and about with me. Sometimes we fight about this and he’ll turn the tv off and just sit on the couch and radiate negative vibes. Then taunt me, so what do YOU want to do. I then have to cheerleader him into doing something. It’s not together time, he sees it as ” you wanted me to do this with you, so I’ll grace you with my presence.”
He works and pays the bills but our life is so boring.

]]> By: DB https://www.professorshouse.com/my-spouse-watches-too-much-tv/#comment-1076234 Wed, 22 Feb 2023 20:57:51 +0000 https://professorshouse.com/relationship-category/my-spouse-watches-too-much-tv/#comment-1076234 In reply to Don.

Don,

It’s Politics all day long except during World Cup Soccer! I am 58, my hubby is 71, retired 2 years he used to be addicted to work & politics. Now that he is retired I thought he would do a things with me which he does at times after me pleading and nagging then he’ll come but clearly shows that he doesn’t have any interest in being out with me.

We just returned from yet another lonely, boring vacation cruising in the Caribbean where the highlights of the day were dressing to go to the main dining room where I watched him stuff his face eating several entries every night then going back to the room to sleep early. We didn’t do any of the fun activities onboard. He just stays in the room and flips from one news channel to another just like he does at home. I spent my time onboard in the adult pool area where I

We haven’t had an active sex life since 2008 when he started on Blood pressure medication, apparently it interferes with his ability to get hard and stay hard so he tries to stuff his shit up in me… Oh yeah daddy that feels good! Really? I’m so frustrated.

]]> By: DOUG https://www.professorshouse.com/my-spouse-watches-too-much-tv/#comment-1074833 Sat, 14 Jan 2023 20:28:35 +0000 https://professorshouse.com/relationship-category/my-spouse-watches-too-much-tv/#comment-1074833 In reply to John.

I’m surprised she knows how to read. 🙂
Although there are a lot of children’s books on the internet.

]]> By: Mp https://www.professorshouse.com/my-spouse-watches-too-much-tv/#comment-1072138 Tue, 18 Oct 2022 10:36:42 +0000 https://professorshouse.com/relationship-category/my-spouse-watches-too-much-tv/#comment-1072138 In reply to Lee.

He sounds mentally healthy to me and brave!

]]> By: Lee https://www.professorshouse.com/my-spouse-watches-too-much-tv/#comment-1068753 Sat, 23 Jul 2022 02:24:53 +0000 https://professorshouse.com/relationship-category/my-spouse-watches-too-much-tv/#comment-1068753 In reply to Jae.

No wonder your wife has turned to TV. I would too if I were married to someone as narcissistic as you. Seriously, do you actually believe your own BS?

]]> By: Jae https://www.professorshouse.com/my-spouse-watches-too-much-tv/#comment-1066277 Sat, 21 May 2022 00:01:32 +0000 https://professorshouse.com/relationship-category/my-spouse-watches-too-much-tv/#comment-1066277 These posts are so therapeutic because I always felt like I was the only one experiencing living with a tv fiend. My wife watches television shows like Highlander, which is great, but watching all the episodes and seasons 4x over is too much. I’m happy there is no tv in the bedroom because I would not allow it but she would just be on her phone watching something, get up at 4am just to continue watching something and say I couldn’t sleep in the morning. She’s obese and I’m looking better than ever since I joined a fitness center that cost us less than HBO max. She’s 43, I’m 49 and contemplating leaving her with the tv, kids, dogs whatever she wants. She is the main income but money is not my worry. I have totally falling in love with..MYSELF!! I love how I feel and what I created. She’s probably gearing up for Stranger Things return, I’ll be enjoying maybe the last good times with my children and crafting an exit plan. Don’t get me wrong, tv is great together but she is gluttonous and vocarously watching tv too damn much and gets defensive every time I tell her that should be enough after saying” just one more episode” at midnight on a Tuesday. Fine I’m going to bed and turn on the best tv…my dreams.

]]> By: James https://www.professorshouse.com/my-spouse-watches-too-much-tv/#comment-1064728 Tue, 26 Apr 2022 09:13:38 +0000 https://professorshouse.com/relationship-category/my-spouse-watches-too-much-tv/#comment-1064728 In reply to John.

I feel you man. Mine is pregnant and has that same media addiction problem. I’m kind of concerned where that all leads, any attempts to talk about things just creates everything worse.

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