DP Talking on headset

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Sort of lighthearted but who is in the wrong? I can't see a way round this until we have a spare room or split downstairs room. I watch tv in living room in evenings. It's a small living room and we don't have a spare room. DP has discovered this game he plays on the pc with members of his family and talks on the headset all evening. I have to watch tv with the sound really loud and can still hear him laughing and talking and sometimes he gets very animated. Don't get me wrong he should be able to relax the same as me and it's not 'my space' more than his but this is starting to irritate me. I'm just wondering if it would annoy others.

You need wireless headphones OP

Aha! I thought about headphones but thought that would be ridiculous and too far from the tv but I never thought of wireless ones (feeling a bit daft )

Put the pc in another room

Oops just read it properly. Make him sit in the car

You need a shed...

I've explained that in my op. We only have the one living room, small kitchen. No spare bedrooms. We want to move but not just yet.

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at car and shed. I've mentioned the shed but he wasn't keen. Someone at work has the same situation and she just watches tv on the iPad but I don't see why I should. Surely the living room is for the proper tv?

I lost the plot the other week and got really annoyed as well so from a serious POV I don't want it to makes us argue.

Can you fit pc in your bedroom or wall mount a tv in your bedroom?

Or alternatively you need a timetable where he can't talk through his headset during your favourite programs

Wireless headphones kept me sane when we lived in our one bed flat. Cath kidston even do pretty ones, also means DP isn't subject to whatever you're watching on TV too

I'm thirding the wireless headphones. My other half is going deaf and they've kept me sane :D

We’re in a similar boat, space wise. We’ve agreed a couple of nights a week where DH can be playing online with his headset, and I go out/take a book and cup of tea to bed/whatever. Sounds a bit too organised/dull/sad to some people but it works for us. I don’t mind as I know in advance when he wants to do it and plan to do “non-lounge” stuff those nights. Obviously if one of the kids is poorly, or something else comes up, then he’ll rearrange.

Thanks everyone. Can anyone recommend some good wireless headphones as some of the ones I've seen say they don't cancel voices? He is going to buy some for me! I am trying to reduce the tv I watch but one thing I like is that we are in the same room. When we had a spare room I hardly saw him really! He doesn't play it all night but I don't want to enforce rules about it or stress if he decides to play it or I want to watch something on Netflix or whatever. We can wall mount a tv but I hate tv in the bedroom and can't sleep very well with lots of electrical stuff in the room. PC definitely wouldn't fit in our bedroom and again I wouldn't want it in there. Good suggestions though, just not for me.