Anyone else got a partner obsessed with the news?

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Im fucking SICK of mine reading it. Throwing out facts about death and infection and lock down.

I’ve told him to stop. It’s driving me demented.

That person in this house is me !

Yep, I don't want to know! I'm ill in bed and would rather read what I want to know.

Yes, I either dont want to know, or already know and dont need him to tell me, or dont need his unique take on it as he is not an expert.

Yeah, my DH has

Some people cope best in a threatening situation by knowing as much as they possibly can about it. DS1 and I are like this. Talk to your partner if he's being too in-your-face about it, you have the right to space from it if that's your preference, but it's not for you to try and tell him to read less news.

Although personally, I couldn't be with someone who "didn't want to know" about current affairs. We wouldn't be compatible.

It’s my Stepdad that’s doing it to my mum and she’s usually the one that would keep mentioning such things! He has the Sky news on 24 hours and as soon as he comes in from work in the morning then she says it’s Corona this, Corona that, and when it first all kicked off then he was the first to say “ffs it’s just a flu”

I’m glad DH isn’t like this. Ignorance is bliss in my opinion. I mean I know it’s awful out there I don’t need the details. Only what I need to do to keep myself and others safe.

I think it would be extremely easy to slip into this mindset if you let it. I could have quite easily done it myself.

For my own mental healths sake I catch up once a day in the evening, wait until it starts to repeat itself and then switch it off. Feel much better for it. It might be worth trying to compromise like that with a set time maybe?

This is probably me I can’t seem to switch off from it. I am feeling more and more worried everyday.

Then I work in a hospital

Yep, there's one in my House too! I check in on a News update once DC are in Bed, as it usually reduces me to an anxiety induced tearful mess.. DH on the other hand, almost takes joy in reading EVERY Sky News update aloud, and if not that, then very loud dramatic exclamations of "Oh my god, how many now!?" Throughout the day

Well, maybe he thinks you’re under-informed and ostrich-like?

It’s me here it’s how I cope. I’d rather know what I’m dealing with; the facts and figures, the science. I think I’m pretty good at reading DP and only share what he’s likely to be interested in, and I’m trying not to do it all the time. But ignorance, for me, is not bliss.

Gosh guys. There’s a difference between “I’ll informed” (thanks ) and 24 hour commenting on it.

I read the news. I read two papers a day. It’s just would an hours break be so hard ?

ill informed *

There's a happy medium - and not wanting an hour by hour death rate update doesn't make anyone ill informed and ostrich like.

No.
I think it’s the unpredictability.
You having a nice little thought about I don’t know... something around the house or chatting to a friend then suddenly -boom did you know we might be locked down till June

Yep. Like yours, he follows me around to tell me about death rates and infection modelling.

I keep up to date - I read a number of different news sites daily - but I'm not obsessing about it. He seems to need to know EVERYTHING in real time; I pick up the highlights when it suits me. I'm getting a bit hacked off and I can't really explain why.

Luckily DH and I are the same on this. Neither of us reads newspapers and we both think the media is generally shit. We look at the news in the morning until it starts repeating and usually the same in the evening unless we're watching something else we like.