Weekend angst

[topcat2014]

I really don't like X Factor. I used to, but these days I find it stressful and depressing.

The problem is, the other 2 household members like it - fair enough (DD and DW) - but I am depressed about every saturday and sunday until Christmas revolving around this programme.

am 45 in three weeks so that could be preying on my mind

[topcat2014]

strikethrough fail

[Augustbaby22]

How about watching something on Netflix on your phone with headphones, read a book or watch something else in another room, surely they're not going to make you sit there and watch it.

I'm with you couldn't think of anything worse than watching X factor.

I'm currently waiting for DD to finish watching night garden so I can give her her bottle and turn it over to strictly, I've already missed the first 25 minutes

[topcat2014]

The problem is, with just a lounge diner down stairs there is no-where else to go - apart from the bedroom.

I know this is such a 'first world problem' - so I should just suck it up :)

[Augustbaby22]

You could make it more fun - I'm sure there's an X factor drinking game somewhere

[EllaHen]

We banned X Factor a few years ago and life is much better without it. So, I get your angst.

[NynaevesSister]

I just watch stuff on my phone with my headphones in. There are only so many repeats of Top Gear that I can handle.

[BackforGood]

How can that cause angst ?
I don't want to watch X-factor - never have - so, er... I don't.
How's that difficult ?

[topcat2014]

@back - I am supposed to stay in the room with the 'fammerlyee..

[TaterTots]

Don't like it? Don't watch it. Will it kill you to do something else for a couple of hours?

[Ragwort]

I never spend Saturday nights in front of the tv with my family - can't think of anything more depressing - I am either out with my own friends, on Mumsnet or reading a good book - in my bedroom.

Tonight my DH is engrossed in the golf ................... yawn. I am on here for a bit and will then have a nice hot bath, glass of wine, early bed with a good book - what's not to like about that?

But I do think there is something slightly pathetic in an adult expecting another adult to provide the 'entertainment' for a Saturday night.

[blueturtle6]

Maybe offer to do the washing up then spend evening mumsnetting from kitchen. Yanbu I hate x factor

[Parker231]

No one is saying you have to watch it? Do something else or go out for the evening? Are you a child who needs constant entertaining?

[BackforGood]

@back - I am supposed to stay in the room with the 'fammerlyee..


Er.... Why?
There are very few programmes that dh and I both like, so, if one of us is watching something the other gets on with life elsewhere.

[inabizzlefam]

I pretty much left my marriage because of this.
STBX loved X factor, IAC, BGT, and every soap going. Whereas I absolutely detest them all.
We ended up virtually living in separate rooms so I know from experience that this seemingly small thing can eventually kill a relationship.
I now make it a priority that, on a date, I ask what TV they watch. If it revolves around soaps and reality then I know it's doomed.

[YouTheCat]

How utterly tedious for you. It is complete shite.

Is there anything that you enjoy you can inflict on them as revenge?

[BackforGood]

Blimey inabizzlefam
TV is just not that important in our lives - dh and I have been married for 22 years, and managed to do that without liking the same TV progs. That really doesn't come anywhere near the radar of what is important in a relationship IMO.