Do you compromise on what you watch on t.v.?

[Anonymous]

We dont watch TV so we don't need to compromise.

[Anonymous]

Once in awhile, there's something that we both like. Normally, we watch tv separately.

[Anonymous]

Usually not. Arise at 4 a.m. to prepare for the day, usually 8:45 p.m. before DS in bed. This is certainly not an unusual schedule for many families in the DC area, but we have 15-20 minutes before one or both of us falls asleep. We need a week to watch an episode of ‘Ray Donovan’ or ‘This is Us’. Sometimes we just talk. Frankly, I could live without the TV.

[Anonymous]

DW here and the only thing I like to watch is sports, LOL. So if there’s not a game on that we both want to watch (he’ll watch any kind of sports too) then I just read a book or catch up on social media while the TV is on.

[Anonymous]

We usually try to find shows we both enjoy to watch together in the evening. If he wants to watch something I'm not interested in, I just go do something else.

If I want to watch something he's not interested in, I try to save it for when he's out of town, otherwise he watches it with me but just talks about how stupid it is the entire time. It's really annoying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Netflix or whatever? Do you watch the same genre each time?

I watch whatever I want because 90% of the times he’s in another room listening to music. There are/were a few shows he’d watch, like True Blood, Downton Abby, GoT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We dont watch TV so we don't need to compromise.

So you're insufferable together. Awesome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We dont watch TV so we don't need to compromise.

Here’s your no TV cookie.

[Anonymous]

Most evenings I do some work in my studio (artist) and watch whatever I want and my DH is in his office usually reading. A couple of times a week we might watch something on Netflix together. The only show we really watch together is the PBS Newshour which we both really enjoy.

[Anonymous]

We’re late to the game on a lot of popular shows on Netflix, so we usually go to bed and watch one episode of something “good”, then something for him, as I’ll usually fall asleep (I’m up much earlier). The not compromise shows help me go to bed earlier, so I consider them a benefit (I’m talking shows about a subject I don’t like, sometimes in a different language).

But yeah, if I didn’t get something we both found watchable for that first stretch, I’d be cranky. I don’t get a lot of downtime each day, and it would bug me to not do something I find enjoyable.

[Anonymous]

We have shows we watch together in the evening that we both enjoy, and then we each have our separate shows that we just watch when we're by ourselves.

[Anonymous]

Together we only watch shows we both like (nearly everything). When he's gone I watch historical dramas and he watches war documentaries.

[Anonymous]

What if DW likes sports and DH likes sci fi? The problem is, all the sci fi DH watches has very similar...well, everything....setting, characters, plot, everything, story line.... I really can't take watching the end of the world every GD night. So, I guess I will be watching t.v. on my own?

[Anonymous]

...... everything else!!

[Anonymous]

I stopped watching some of my favorite shows, because all XH would do is make fun of them, even if we weren't watching them together.

He was a jerk.