Massively regret getting a TV

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For the bedroom.

I go to bed much earlier than DH. I usually go on my phone, read or watch something on my phone.

I had a little extra money and thought I'd get a TV so when I felt like watching a film I could on the TV instead of my phone.

I also have boughts of illness so I thought it might help pass the time when again, I'm in bed poorly.

Well for the past 3 night DH has come to bed not long after me to watch TV in bed and it's driving me nuts.

I'm used to falling asleep in the quiet, having turned my phone of and my husband still being awake downstairs.

He watches things like stand up comedy or action films, so loud things, lots of laughter etc.

Plus the room is lit up.

I said to him it's making me not be able to sleep and he said that what else did I get the TV for if it isn't to be watched. Which I suppose is right. And he would rather watch something cosy in bed than downstairs.

I just wish I never got it :(

He's being selfish.

I go to sleep quite early and I don't mind background noise but no comedy or music otherwise I won't sleep.

It is handy having one in there though as I get bouts of illness too.

You got the TV, you can also get rid of it. It was an experiment, you tried it, it hasn't worked, you can just revert back to not having it. It's fine, give yourself permission to say it was worth a go but it's not for you!

He’s a selfish cunt. That is all.

He doesnt sound like one, sounds more like a case of:
'look at you, thinking you've made your life better with a new TV, well I'm going to make that backfire on you'

Grow up, get a back bone and tell him to F off. It is to be watched but not when you are trying to sleep.

We have a TV in our room, it's watched either if I'm in bed sick, if I can't use the lounge (ie, if one of the kids is having a sleepover party in the lounge), or occasional if I'm getting ready of a morning or for an event that takes longer than "normal".

DH would never watch it when I try to sleep, and vice versa. Your DH is being a dick.

MN has the strangest people on it.

Sorry op, I think I’d be like your do. If you have an option of downstairs or in bed, why would you pick downstairs? Plus it’s your joint room. I am sorry it’s keeping you up though but I don’t know how the two of you sort this, maybe dedicated nights?!

DH would never watch it when I try to sleep, and vice versa. Your DH is being a dick.
but what if one of you had it off full time and was trying to sleep? Then you’d be saying why is it there in the first place?

Yes I've told him I don't mind on the weekends but if I'm sleeping/trying to when he comes up in the week not to turn TV on.

He said sorry, he didn't realise it was stopping me sleeping and thought I didn't mind as I didn't say anything.

And to be fair I didn't say anything or ask him to turn it off. I just put my sleep mask on.

He's not actually a dick or a cunt in any other situation, he's a really wonderful bloke who sometimes needs to be told things directly (he's on the spectrum)

Guess it was just a case of not communicating very well.