This is just a minor issue but I'd like some thoughts on it please.
DS age 13 lives with me and my DP (not his Dad). I used to enjoy watching films before I moved in with DP occassionally - maybe once a week. Was nice to sit down with DS when he was younger and have a cuddle for a couple of hours with a DVD or something recorded from the TV. It was also nice to settle down with a bar of chocolate and a grown up film when he went to bed.
I have suddenly realised that I never watch films anymore. DP doesn't seem to have the attention span and prefers to watch factual stuff and read the paper. In an ideal world he would watch sport while reading the paper but he knows I hate sport, so he will put the news on, for example. He also has to get up early for work and is often asleep on the sofa by 9.30pm anyway, which is not condusive for DVD viewing after DS goes to bed at 9pm.
When I have tried to watch films, he will dismiss the content, the storyline or get up and walk out if there is swearing or violence, but I know he has watched things like Bond and Bourne at the cinema.
Last night DS and I were watching "outnumbered" (something both DS and I can watch together) as DP was out, he came back home half way through and then muttered about the tv programme being on the same sort of level as spongebob and total rubbish etc.
Now, don't get me wrong it wouldnt be my choice if I was on my own, but then again neither would the news or the factual programmes I seem to sit through every night. I compromise for him, but I feel he doesn't want to compromise for us, although I'm sure he would say not watching sport is a compromise.
I honestly feel if I want to watch a film with DS I would have to go and watch it in DS bedroom with him or watch a film in my bedroom but then I know DP would moan about being left out too!
Feel very uncomfortable and piggy in the middle between my DS and DP, which is ridiculous over something quite trivial isn't it?
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Am I being silly feeling like this?
SanFrancisco · 27/07/2011 14:53
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