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AIBU?

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DH keeps hijacking my binges.

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EssieTregowan · 29/06/2017 21:37

It's deeply annoying. He'll come in and watch half an episode and then decide he wants to watch the whole series with me.

So then we have to watch it at his pace. Which basically means an episode every few days if I'm lucky.

He's just done it with Arrow. I was only on the first episode and he came in about ten minutes into it. He watched the whole episode with me and declared it brilliant and said we can watch it together from now on.

And then he went to do some work. And he's still working. So instead of carrying on with Arrow I've had to start watching Outlander.

I can't live like this. I can't watch an episode a week. I can't switch between different shows. It's all wrong.

I'm not being unreasonable, am I? It's not my fault he doesn't have the stamina free time for binge watching, is it?

(I do quite often watch ahead tbf but when he's working in the next room it feels a bit, I don't know, grubby and underhand).

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AceholeRimmer · 30/06/2017 10:11

DP doesn't bother with new series much (he tends to watch 90s shows from beginning to end) but when he did, he kept up at first but then wouldn't want to for a while when I was dying to know what happens next! Anyway we're happier watching our own stuff at our own pace.

WomblingThree · 30/06/2017 10:20

OOAOML I think it depends whether you see watching telly as a social pursuit or an individual one though.

We all have things we watch on our own, but then we also have things we all watch together. With two people working shifts, one at college and me at home, there's always a ton of stuff saved on our box for when everyone is in, so we can watch as a family. It's not a case of me sitting around waiting though, we just watch it if we're all there at once.

I've got all day to watch my crap that no one else likes (true crime mostly).

cakecakecheese · 30/06/2017 10:26

I have programmes that I watch with my bf and some I just watch on my own, that he wouldn't be interested in, so I can binge on them when I'm supposed to be working in my own time.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 30/06/2017 10:27

You have two options.

Either find things to binge-watch that he won't enjoy, or find a series that you think is OK, and don't mind watching, and get him hooked on that - then you can binge watch your choice of programmes, whilst kindly waiting until he is there and carrying on with the OK series.

Chloe84 · 30/06/2017 10:31

Simples, you binge watch it on your own, and when he suggests watching it together, you tell him you've lost interest in it.

confuugled1 · 30/06/2017 10:43

Tell him before he starts to watch that you're planning on binge watching it and if he doesn't want to do that, it's fine but you will still be binge watching them and he can catch up on them at his leisure once you have finished...

HookandSwan · 30/06/2017 10:43

I recommend you binge watch once upon a time he'll prob not like that and it's brilliant.

OOAOML · 30/06/2017 10:50

Thinking about it Wombling you're right, I don't think we do see it as a social thing. Because of where we are right now with when we go out, when we are taking the children to stuff etc, there isn't a lot that we watch together. And quite often one of us can be watching something with the other in the room but doing something else.

I think if we had a box we could save things on it would end up with a massive backlog.

MrsQuim · 30/06/2017 11:40

Yabu to watch tv during the day. Get off your arses and do some housework

BadgersBum · 30/06/2017 12:06

I don't think my DH would have a clue what I'm currently binge watching unless he went on my Netflix account as I try not to mention it in case he wants to watch with me. I've done Orange is the New Black, American Horror Story, Psycho and Season 1 of Pretty Little Liars without him. We watched Breaking Bad together and it took months!

DoctorStrange · 30/06/2017 12:16

Arrow season 4 is awful (apart from the one episode with Constantine) so by the time you get to that point you'll be happy to only watch an episode every few days!

MsSusanStoHelit · 30/06/2017 12:20

Omg Nancy I would definitely be citing that as unreasonable behaviour as the grounds for the inevitable divorce! I am religious about avoiding spoilers, that would ruin TV for me.

Nancy91 · 30/06/2017 12:22

I know Susan, it's so messed up I will be filing for divorce

2rebecca · 30/06/2017 12:54

Why does he get to decide the speed at which you watch series? Why not just tell him he can watch it with you if he'll watch it at your pace but if he wants to just watch it now and then then he can watch it on his own as you want to watch it more quickly.
You are allowed to say no to him.

CheshireChat · 30/06/2017 14:55

Ours is the opposite- I start watching a series, then DP decides he wants to watch it as well, but not an episode a night, noooo, let's binge. I also get bored of series easily and give up on them and then he pesters me to watch them with him.

However, when we were watching Lucifer together, he made me wait for him to catch-up for ages and then he binge watched it all. I now read or listen to music. Or watch anime!

Cirandeira · 30/06/2017 15:02

Tell him to swivel and watch whatever the hell you want.

You're a grown woman and you don't let other people tell you what to do.

NellieFiveBellies · 30/06/2017 19:57

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