Watch what you want but..............

You have my sympathies, I have decided that there is nothing on TV worth an argument, when offered a choice (when there is no sport on!) I usually switch it off unless there is a good medical programme on. DH will even 'put one on for me', which illogically irritates as I would prefer to choose my own programmes! He means well.......

I feel your pain ‘we’ watch every quiz show with my husband calling out the answers and totally ignoring me for the duration of the programmes. I then get to watch the rerun of Downton Abbey and he takes great pleasure in making derogatory remarks all the way through it. One day I will implode AND I always get more right answers than him.

Secret to a happy life - separate TVs!

I never understand these couples who have to do everything together. Get a tv in another room and watch what you want!

At the minute it’s the Downing Street daily update, every day from about 4pm. That’s ok.
But he barges and rants at the journalists and their ‘stupid questions’... every day. I could write the script. Are they stupid... they’ve already asked that ...... etc etc

"Shut it! You've watched your programme, now I'll watch mine." would be my response, Trisha57.
In a pleasant tone of voice, of course.

Ps : YABU - to give in like that.

One of the huge advantages of living alone...watch whatever rubbish you like without anyone commenting!

I'll second that.

We don’t all have spare rooms

Trisha57, I second kircubbin2000 in that you obviously need your own TV in another room - asap!

My problem is slightly different, in that my DH will happily watch what I might choose (or he'll go off and commune with his computer) so no major fallings-out. However - before retirement he was a television lighting director and now cannot watch anything without commenting on how programmes are lit! Gets somewhat annoying, I can tell you.

Thank goodness it’s not only happening to me! My DH just wants to watch car sos, dangerous catch and anything relating to these themes. He of course has to make sure I don’t want to watch anything else by grunting about rubbish programmes. It’s a godsend having an extra tv.

I appreciate maybe it’s not possible for everyone, but if it is, just watch in separate rooms.
DH and I watch the national and local news together, then I disappear into spare bedroom and watch what I want, or read, or watch stuff on the I pad.
Why is it assumed tv has to be viewed cosily sitting together on the sofa, hands entwined?
If you’re Harry and Meghan, probably.
For the rest of us, probably not.

I've learned to enjoy war movies, rugby and cricket (in moderation). But he searches and downloads all sort of things that he knows I like, and we watch them together. He's become as fascinated as I am by paleoarchaeology and genetics, but does go to his workshop while I watch home improvement shows. Give and take.

What we both watched last night was Sacred Wonders ...amazing programme and we then watched another episode on player.

War movies, car restorations, police action, golf, train programmes etc. etc.. They all bore me silly. Solution, record what I want to watch and take myself off to do some craft work or read in peace.

It is of course one of the standing jokes about men dominating the TV remote control ? .... please don’t anyone start about the “women are perfect garbage” that we had to endure the other day. It’s as others say, it keeps the peace if you have 2 TV’s. You don’t need another separate room, just a bedroom will do, and it keeps harmony in the household, watching some things together, and some apart.

We may not all have spare rooms, but we have bedrooms. Before anyone says they could never have a TV in the bedroom, is the alternative of constant bickering preferable?

Just be thankful you have a husband to watch with but separate TVs sounds the answer if you can arrange that.

something to be said for living alone then! Put a tv in another room!

if no other room put a small one in the kitchen!!

I guess i am lucky. My DH has a 'man cave' he goes there in the evenings to listen to rock music, play online gaming or trawl through ebay on his PC for things to buy.
Meanwhile i sit in the lounge, watching what ever i want doing my knitting. He comes down for the news at 11pm then proceeds to talk over everything that is being said telling me his version and opinion on the topic of the day. If we didnt seperate like this in the evenings i think i would have lost the plot by now as he would be doing the same over every program. He does it when we have the 6pm news on the radio whilst having our evening meal, he just cant stop himself!!!!!

You could have another in a bedroom/kitchen. Doesn’t have to be spare